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Article: At Ecumenical Conference Orthodox Theologian Equates Pollution With Sin
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- The Washington Report on Middle East Affairs
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- January 31, 1996
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At Ecumenical Conference Orthodox Theologian Equates Pollution With Sin
By Michael Howard
Last September a group of pilgrims sailed from Istanbul across the wine-dark seas of the Mediterranean to Patmos, a small, arid island in the Greek Aegean Sea where 1,900 years earlier St. John the Divine recorded the Book of Revelation. Their mission, to mark the anniversary of the final book of the New Testament by considering, in a lavish seminar, the relevance of St. John's apocalyptic visions to the impending ecological crisis.
On board a giant car ferry, or "latter-day ark" as it was dubbed by the Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholemew I of Constantinople, primus inter pares of the national Orthodox ...