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SECOND DAY OF DELIBERATIONS OF THE HOLY SYNOD

The deliberations of the Holy Synod continued and were completed on 27 November 2014. During the second and final day, the Holy Synod discussed the prospects and the challenges of Inter-Christian Dialogue, the eruption of religious fundamentalism in the Middle East and in Africa, as well as the promotion of the financial self-sufficiency of the Missions.

It is worth noting that between the morning and afternoon sessions, His Grace Vasileios the newly-elected Bishop of Botswana who had just arrived from Athens, gave before His Beatitude Theodoros II, Pope and Patriarch of Alexandria the Great Message in the Holy Patriarchal Chapel of Ss Theodori, after which he received the wishes of the Hierarchs