Welcoming Remarks of Dr. Anthony J. Limberakis
Please allow me first to express our deep appreciation to Her Excellency Rodi Kratsa Tsagaropoulou, Vice President of the European Parliament for hosting this conference here at the European Parliament. We are most grateful Madame Vice President.
Welcoming Remarks of Rodi Kratsa Tsagaropoulou
I am very pleased to welcome you in Brussels in our house in the European Parliament. I would also like to thank the organizers for their kind invitation to attend the opening of this conference. I sincerely regret that my Vice Presidency obligations in London have not allowed me to share my thoughts with you […]
Greetings of Prime Minister Leterme of Belgium
“I warmly welcome the participants to this very interesting conference and I wish them very successful debates.”
Closing Remarks of Dr. Anthony J. Limberakis
It is with overwhelming feelings of pride and gratitude that I humbly offer these closing thoughts to you today. Truly, in the last 48 hours, we have experienced an extraordinary event of lasting spiritual, political, diplomatic and social significance.
Salutation of His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew
With great spiritual satisfaction and gratefulness of heart, we greet all of you, the participants of this truly historic religious freedom conference, as you commence your work and days of collaboration and exchange.
Speech of Lakis Vingas
I am honored and pleased to join you here, today, in the seat of the European Union, to discuss issues of religious freedom and some general concerns expressed by religious minorities in Turkey.
Opening Remarks of His Eminence Archbishop Demetrios of America
With gratitude toward God and with fervent prayer for all people, I greet you with love in the Lord at the opening of this historic International Archon Religious Freedom Conference.
Remarks of Metropolitan Epiphaniy of Kyiv and All Ukraine on receiving the Athenagoras Human Rights Award
On Saturday, October 19, 2019, His Beatitude Metropolitan Epiphaniy of Kyiv and All Ukraine delivered the following remarks upon receiving the Athenagoras Human Rights Award during the annual banquet of the Order of Saint Andrew the Apostle, in New York City. Your Eminence Archbishop of America Elpidophoros! Most Reverend Bishops, Venerable Fathers! Honorable Sir Anthony […]
Banquet Message of Dr. Anthony J. Limberakis
It is difficult for me to express in adequate fashion the delight and pride that I feel, on behalf of the Archons of the Ecumenical Patriarchate, for the incomparable success and invaluable significance of the international conference that we have all experienced over the last two days here in the beautiful and historical city of […]
Greetings from Odysseus F. Sassayiannis
Religious freedom is a very complex and ‘hot’ issue in our multicultural societies. This modern human right claims from state and religions more than tolerance towards groups and persons with different religious convictions.
