🇺🇦 Message on the occasion of Indict 2026translated

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+ Bartholomew,

By the grace of God

Archbishop Constantinople, New Rome,

and the Ecumenical Patriarch,

To all the fullness of the Church -

Grace, peace and mercy from the Creator of all creation,

Lord, and God, and Savior our Jesus Christ.

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Reverend brothers hierarchs and blessed children in the Lord,

By the grace of God, the Submitter all blessings, today we enter a new church year, honoring and celebrating in psalms, hymns and spiritual songs at its beginning "Day of prayer for the protection of natural environment".

Modern multidimensional ecological crisis is a crisis of human freedom, religion and philosophy man, his ethics and culture. It is preceded by a "bad change" of our freedom, ours cutting off and estrangement from the Source of Life, and only then - destructive behavior natural environment. We feel a deep appreciation for being innovative initiatives and interventions of the Ecumenical Patriarchate, which have continued continuously since 1989 to the present, not only revealed the spiritual dimension of the environmental problem, but also opened new ways and prospects for its solution. Environmental conferences, relevant inter-Christian and inter-religious dialogues, specific proposals of the Great Church regarding ecological...