“It is particularly important that the next General Assembly of the Inter-Parliamentary Assembly on Orthodoxy and the international conference we are preparing on parliamentarianism and religious faith will take place in the heart of Europe, in Brussels.
Western Europe may have been moved away from the Eastern Orthodox Church after the Schism of 1054. However, the European Union now consists of countries of the former Eastern bloc with an Orthodox-majority population while there are hundreds of thousands of Orthodox in other countries of the Old Continent.”
Those were the words of Maximos Harakopoulos, the head of the Greek delegation to the Interparliamentary Assembly on Orthodoxy (ΙΟΑ), who visited the headquarters of the European Parliament in Brussels, accompanied by IOA Adviser Dr Kostas Migdalis.
The main purpose of the visit was to prepare for the next meeting of the IAO General Assembly in Brussels as well as an international high standard conference on parliamentarism and religious faith.
During their stay in Brussels, Maximos Charakopoulos and Kostas Migdalis also briefed Metropolitan Athinagoras of Belgium and accepted his proposal to visit the Parish of Saint Barbara in Liège, where they held a meeting with the President of the Greek Community of Brussels, Dimitrios Argyropoulos.
Source: ANA-MPA