CHRISAFIDES: NH Senate Adopts Landmark Proclamation Promoting Religious Freedom for Orthodox Christian Leader

CHRISAFIDES: NH Senate Adopts Landmark Proclamation Promoting Religious Freedom for Orthodox Christian Leader

Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople is the spiritual leader of the world’s 300 million Orthodox Christians. Yet he lives humbly in Constantinople (modern-day Istanbul), where, despite the fact that he is the leader of the world’s second-largest Christian body, his worldwide ministry is subject to various forms of discrimination by the Turkish government. His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew is a globally respected rel…