ENI – The head of Greece's Orthodox church has urged Christians of different denominations to step up cooperation to promote unity in the face of growing secularism in society.
“It's an urgent task because we are living in an age where there is huge alienation with secularism, globalization and the breakdown of moral values,” Archbishop Christodoulos of Athens said during a visit to the headquarters of the World Council of Churches in May.
“If the Church does not speak of universal ethical values, who will?” said the archbishop, whose church was a founding member of the WCC in 1948 and accounts for about 98 per cent of Greece's 10.7 million people.
In Geneva, Archbishop Christodoulos also met the UN's High Commissioner for Refugees, Antonio Guterres, to discuss cooperation on refugee issues and ways of combating intolerance.
