{"id":330537,"date":"2016-04-29T18:11:09","date_gmt":"2016-04-29T16:11:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/webdev.flars.net\/video-messages-and-eu-patronage\/"},"modified":"2016-04-29T18:11:09","modified_gmt":"2016-04-29T16:11:09","slug":"video-messages-and-eu-patronage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.together4europe.org\/en\/video-messages-and-eu-patronage\/","title":{"rendered":"Video Messages and EU Patronage"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4 style=\"text-align: justify;\">Church leaders will support the network <em>Together for Europe<\/em> on 2nd July 2016, by sending personal messages; the Council of Europe and the EU Commission confirmed their patronage.<\/h4>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: justify;\">In the course of the last weeks both the Vatican, and the Patriarchate in Istanbul officially confirmed, that Pope Francis and the Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I will send a personal video message to the large-scale Ecumenical Rally of the network <em>Together for Europe<\/em> held on<span style=\"color: #60439b;\"><a style=\"color: #60439b;\" href=\"http:\/\/92.223.166.139\/en\/Monaco-2016-manifestazione\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> 2nd July in Munich>.\u00a0<\/a><\/span><\/h5>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">As early as the beginning of last September, Fr. Heinrich Walter of the Schoenstatt Movement, as the representative of the International Steering Committee of <em>Together for Europe<\/em>, presented an information brochure to the Pope about the event in Munich during a personal audience, and asked him for a video message. \u201cShall we record it now?\u201d the head of the Catholic Church asked tongue-in-cheek. Now an official confirmation has arrived by phone from the Vatican that the message is being worked on.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Last November, Maria Voce, Diego Goller and Gerhard Pross of the International Steering Committee used the opportunity of a meeting with the Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I, to invite him to come to Munich. Since he was not able to attend personally, he promised to send a message, and confirmed this again a few days ago when he met the Focolare of Istanbul.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Both Church leaders value and support the work of the spiritual Communities and Movements, and support the initiative of <em>Together for Europe.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The President of the European Commission, Jean-Claude Juncker and the Secretary General of the Council of Europe, Thorbj\u00f8rn Jagland have pledged their support to the event by granting their patronage for it.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">For more informations download the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/92.223.166.139\/en\/download\/eventi\/monaco_2016\/press_2\/en\/pr_en\/PressRelease-II_VideoMessages_160425_EN.docx\">Press Release II: Video Messages from Pope and Patriarch<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-8635\" src=\"https:\/\/together4europe.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/logo_en-e1464276763490-1.png\" alt=\"logo_en\" width=\"191\" height=\"136\" \/>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-8634\" src=\"https:\/\/together4europe.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/COE-Logo-Quadri-299x239.png\" alt=\"COE-Logo-Quadri\" width=\"167\" height=\"135\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Church leaders will support the network Together for Europe on 2nd July 2016, by sending personal messages; the Council of Europe and the EU Commission confirmed their patronage. In the course of the last weeks both the Vatican, and the Patriarchate in Istanbul officially confirmed, that Pope Francis and the Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":8773,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"Pope and Patriarch Unite for Europe on July 2","_seopress_titles_desc":"Join the Ecumenical Rally on July 2, 2016, supported by Pope Francis and Patriarch Bartholomew. 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