11-13/12/97: Second Dialogue between the Ecumenical Patriarchate and the Group of the European People's Party and European Union of Christian Democrats

Venue: 11-13 December 1997
Patriarchal Institute for Patristic Studies
Salonika, Hellenic Republic

THEME: Church/ State relations in the Europe of the third millennium

The Bureau of the Group of the European People's Party in the European Parliament, the enlarged Presidency of the European Union of Christian Democrats and the Nea Dimokratia Delegation in the EP will meet with representatives of the Ecumenical Patriarchate, in the framework of the second dialogue on Church / State relations.

Under the general theme of "Church/State relations in the Europe of the third millennium" the members of the EPP and the EUCD will discuss the following matters with representatives of the Orthodox Church:

a. The collapse of Marxist-Socialist ideas: Christian values- a way out of the vacuum- the relevance of Christian values for modern society.
b. The twentieth century orthodox experience of church-state relations.
c. The twentieth century west-European experience of church-state relations.
d. Twenty-first century application of Christian values in government.
e. Third millennium of Christianity in Europe.

ENDS

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