Archive for tag: Tawadros II

Archive pour tag : Tawadros II

“Your Holiness, we humbly ask you to bless our synodal journey and to accompany us with your prayers, yours personally and those of your Church, that we may know how to put ourselves in the Spirit’s hands!”, it was with this particular request that Cardinal Mario Grech concluded his address of greeting this morning to His Holiness Tawadros II, Pope of Alexandria and Patriarch of the See of St. Mark, accompanied by an eminent delegation of the Coptic Orthodox Church.
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Posted: May 12, 2023 • Permanent link: ecumenism.net/?p=13667
Categories: NewsIn this article: Coptic, General Secretariat for the Synod, Mario Grech, Tawadros II
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Pope Francis has continued his predecessors’ serious commitment to ecumenical dialogue, but he also makes ecumenical gestures that underline that seriousness. Meeting Coptic Orthodox Pope Tawadros II of Alexandria, Egypt, Pope Francis paid tribute to the 21 Coptic martyrs murdered by Islamic State in 2015, noting they were killed for being Christian, not for being Orthodox. And he announced that they would be added to the Roman Martyrology, the book-length calendar of saints and blessed remembered by Catholics at Mass.
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Posted: May 11, 2023 • Permanent link: ecumenism.net/?p=13669
Categories: CNSIn this article: Coptic, martyrdom, Pope Francis, Tawadros II
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Catégorie : CNSDans cet article : Coptic, martyrdom, Pope Francis, Tawadros II