Ecumenical Patriarch: Peace is never a given

[InTime News]

Speaking successful a special league honoring his 35 years arsenic patriarch and 65 years of priestly service, Orthodox Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew, the spiritual person of Orthodox Christians worldwide, said that bid “has ne'er been a given” but is simply a hard-won accomplishment calved of courage, sacrifice, and the rejection of violence.

Bartholomew, who addressed lawmakers aft receiving the Gold Medal of the Greek Parliament, outlined planetary challenges including war, the ecological crisis, and the erosion of cardinal values. He warned that modern “realpolitik has wholly prevailed implicit planetary instrumentality and adjacent the United Nations Charter,” which is grounded successful the peaceful solution of disputes.

He called for a renewed planetary statement astir shared values, pointing to the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights arsenic a motivation instauration forged aft humanity’s top catastrophe. He expressed interest implicit the “resounding questioning” of those rights today and emphasized the value of interfaith dialogue.

On clime issues, helium said that economical enactment which ignores the earthy situation “is not ‘economy’ but ‘eco-nomylessness,’” urging a displacement toward an ecological economy.