On Friday 4th August last, a delegation from the Community of Sant'Egidio took part in the solemn funeral rites for Teoctist I, Patriarch of the Rumanian Orthodox Church. The delegation bore the condolences of the whole Community, arising from a long friendship with the Rumanian Church and with Patriarch Teoctist. This relationship was, perhaps, at its most intense when the Encounter of Prayer for Peace between the World’s Religions was held in Bucharest in 1998. |