Statement by His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew at Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial (Jerusalem, 27 May 2014)

All who descend into the inner chamber of the museum are free to walk away when they chose, and return to the sunlight. Such was not the case for these 1.5 million children whose lives were taken from them through hatred and unspeakable violence.
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Patriarchal Exhortation by His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew to the Orthodox Delegations (Jerusalem, May 26, 2014)

It is our God-given mandate to bring discipleship to the world around us. And by discipleship, we mean the discipline bequeathed to us by our Lord to have compassion for one another and the natural environment. We are called and commanded to share with others the gifts that we have received and the joy that we have experienced on this Holy Mountain of Zion and in the Holy City of Jerusalem.
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Toast by His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew at the Dinner Hosted by His Holiness Pope Francis (Jerusalem, May 25, 2014)

This meal comes at the end of a long journey, which began for Your Holiness at the West and for our Modesty in the East. We have arrived in the place where East and West converge, to the roots of our very existence as Christians, the place where our Lord was born, taught, suffered the Cross, rose from the dead, ascended into heaven and sent the Holy Spirit to constitute His Church.
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Speech by Pope Francis During The Holy Sepulchre Ecumenical Celebration (Jerusalem – 25.05.2014)

In this Basilica, which all Christians regard with the deepest veneration, my pilgrimage in the company of my beloved brother in Christ, His Holiness Bartholomaios, now reaches its culmination. We are making this pilgrimage in the footsteps of our venerable predecessors, Pope Paul VI and Patriarch Athenagoras, who, with courage and docility to the Holy Spirit, made possible, fifty years ago, in this holy city of Jerusalem, an historic meeting between the Bishop of Rome and the Patriarch of Constantinople.
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Homily by His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew at the Joint Prayer Service (Holy Sepulcher, May 25, 2014)

It is with awe, emotion and respect that we stand before “the place where the Lord lay,” the life-giving tomb from which life emerged. And we offer glory to the all-merciful God, who rendered us, His unworthy servants, worthy of this supreme blessing to become pilgrims in the place where the mystery of the world’s salvation transpired.
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Address of His All Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew to the American Jewish Committee May 25, 2014

We come to this meeting today because of the Ecumenical Patriarchate’s heartfelt commitment to loving our neighbor as ourselves, and because of our commitment to our Tradition, and to fulfill our mission as Christians to live in peace with God and all humanity.
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Address by His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew at The Concelebration with His Beatitude Patriarch Of Jerusalem, Theophilos at The Church Of Our Lord’s Resurrection (25 May 2014)

We also, together with our brother Pope Francis and the Roman Catholic world, have come to this place in humility and gladness, and with fear and trembling, to experience a small taste of the mystery of the divine commandment “that they may be one”, the mystery of prayer and service and the journey that the Orthodox and Roman Catholic churches have taken together after centuries of alienation these past fifty years, which have been a new period of dialogue for both sides. In this dialogue, we pray for divine illumination that we may not fall into error, without stumbling in word, and that we may be delivered from the errors of division, hatred, persecution, genocide, and racism.
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Greeting of His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew at the Doxology at the Basilica of the Nativity in Bethlehem (24 May, 2014)

You, the youth of Bethlehem, are the hope and the future of your homeland. Remain faithful to your historical mission and preserve unextinguished the flame of our Orthodox faith in this land, where the Lord initiated His work of salvation for the whole world. Your presence here as Orthodox Christians is of immense importance. Continue your work with the same passion. May God be with you!
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Greeting of His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew at the Reception by His Beatitude Patriarch Theophilos of Jerusalem (23 May, 2014)

Greeting of His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew at the reception by His Beatitude Patriarch Theophilos III of Jerusalem at the Patriarchate of Jerusalem during the 50th anniversary of the meeting between Pope Paul VI and Ecumenical Patriarch Athenagoras (23 May, 2014).
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