The Ecumenical Hellenism Foundation in cooperation with the Institute of Religious and Ethnic Identity conducted a mission of exceptional interest in the aspects of religion, ethnicity and tourism.
Trip to South Italy and Sicily, Palermo, Selinoundas, Akragas, Syracuses, Catania, Messini. We visited the Greek speaking villages, met the Greeks and their history, we admired the dynamics of the ancient Hellenic culture and walked throughout the castles of the Byzantium and the middle Ages.
A journey to the unforgettable homelands of Cappadocia and the Black Sea can only mark an exciting journey. It is the match of the oriental aura, the Greek tradition, the intense historical experiences of our race and orthodoxy that leave their testimony to these beloved places everywhere.
Mission of the members and friends of the program “Ecumenical Hellenism” in China. The contact of Greek and Chinese culture was the main banner-goal of the mission.
Forty people, ready for the most difficult and tedious mission, began the journey to the Black Sea regions, where Hellenism thrived for hundreds of years. Bucharest, a city with a population of 3,000,000 was the meeting point for travelers from Athens and Thessaloniki to begin the most difficult mission of the "Foundation of Ecumenical Hellenism “program.
Meeting the culture of the Aztecs, the Mayans, the Zapotecs, the Miletus and the Toltecs and the forgotten Greeks. 50 of our members participated.
The Archbishop of Panama and the United States of America, Mr. Athinagoras, the Mayor of Havana Mr. Leal, and the Minister of Religious Affairs and Relations with Greece Mr. Calida, welcomed us, representing President Fidel Castro. We now know what love for Greece and ancient Greek culture means.
The "Ecumenical Hellenism" program “closed” its first ten-years and its second round of projects with this great mission to Australia and the distribution of five hundred volumes and 2,000 Greek Flags.
Within deeply moved emotional circumstances, the program "Ecumenical Hellenism" carried out the great "cultural journey" on the roads of the East from the 05th until the 09th of July.
The mission consisted of 92 personalities from all over Greece leaded by Panousopoulos Stavros, President of the program "Ecumenical Hellenism", Mantouvalos Petros MP of New Democracy, Archimandrite Gervasios of the Metropolis of Neapolis and Stavropolis and Director of the Primary School of Katerini, Pappas Theophilos Mayor of Syvota Thesprotias. ANT1 TV with the reporter Yannis Pachoulakis and the cameraman Ventouris Dimitris, were with us.
We visited the forgotten Greeks in Buenos Aires, Rio de Janeiro, Sao Paolo, and individual Greek families, in the N. Pole, Patagonia, Iguaçu Falls and the Amazon. 50 of our members participated.
Along with our meetings with the Greeks, we visited the Alexandrian Library and we traveled to the monuments of Egyptian culture (Luxor, Karnak, Pyramids), safari in the Bedouin camps in the Sinai desert and the Saint Catherine’s Monastery in Sinai.
The first visit of "Ecumenical Hellenism" to the monastery of Mother Mary of Soumela. Our 50 members participated.
During the events, the two-volume projects MACEDONIA and HOLY PILGRIMAGES - TOWERS OF ORTHODOXY were offered free of charge from the Program in Greek and English, to Greek and foreign libraries of South Africa in the framework of international information on Greek culture issues.
A concert was held at the Theological School of Halki with Nadia Weinberg. Our 180 friends participated.
In the Hall of the Patriarchal Throne, the ceremony for the delivery of the 1st volume of the volume "Holy pilgrimages - Towers of Orthodoxy" took place, a project that is under the blessing of the Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew.
