"The need to preserve the unity of the Orthodox Church as well as the faith of our fathers" and to solve "every problem we encounter in our relations with a spirit of love and peace." This is one of the "commitments" made by the Primates of the Orthodox Churches in the message read yesterday during the Divine Liturgy celebrated in the Patriarchal Church of St. George in Phanar. The message was released at the end of the meeting of the Orthodox Patriarchs promoted by the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople Bartholomew I to celebrate the Pauline year. The message was signed by the main representatives of the Orthodox Churches in the world such as Alexius II of Moscow, Anastasios of Tirana, Theodoro of Alexandria, Ignatius of Antioch and Ieronymus of Athens. The message is focusing on many points, namely the "responsibility of Christians towards the problems of humanity and the world”, the tendency "to separate religion from social life", scientific progress, support to families and marriages in crisis, young people.
