Pope: Blood of the martyrs has become seed of Christian unity - Independent Catholic News

Pope: Blood of the martyrs has become seed of Christian unity - Independent Catholic News: Pope Francis urged world leaders to 'promote peaceful coexistence' in the face of 'a devastating outbreak of violence against Christians' on Monday, 29 February, when he received the Patriarch of the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church, Pope Matthias I, in the Vatican. The Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church is the largest of the Oriental Orthodox Churches, which rejected the definitions of the Council of Chalcedon in AD 451. In his address, Pope Francis told Pope Matthias I 'what unites us is greater than what divides us... shared sufferings

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