{"id":3942,"date":"2006-12-15T10:10:24","date_gmt":"2006-12-15T10:10:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/viamedia\/2006\/12\/the-declaration.html"},"modified":"2006-12-15T10:10:24","modified_gmt":"2006-12-15T10:10:24","slug":"the-declaration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2006\/12\/the-declaration.html","title":{"rendered":"The Declaration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog-by-the-sea.typepad.com\/blog_bythesea\/2006\/12\/common_declarat.html\">Teresa Polk has done the great service of translating in the English the Common Declaration signed by the Pope and Christodoulos, the Orthodox Archbishop of Athens<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/rds.yahoo.com\/_ylt=A9htfMDRvYJF9AAA2x3QtDMD;_ylu=X3oDMTBjcXBoZjEwBHBvcwMzBHNlYwNzcg--\/SIG=12sh0alpk\/EXP=1166282577\/**http%3a\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2006\/12\/15\/world\/europe\/15briefs-greekbishop.html\">One sidebar to the meeting:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p>In his first official visit to the <a title=\"More articles about the Roman Catholic Church.\" href=\"http:\/\/topics.nytimes.com\/top\/reference\/timestopics\/organizations\/r\/roman_catholic_church\/index.html?inline=nyt-org\"><span style=\"color: #004276\">Vatican<\/span><\/a>, Archbishop Christodoulos, the leader of the Greek Orthodox Church, asked <a title=\"More articles about Benedict XVI.\" href=\"http:\/\/topics.nytimes.com\/top\/reference\/timestopics\/people\/b\/benedict_xvi\/index.html?inline=nyt-per\"><span style=\"color: #004276\">Pope Benedict XVI<\/span><\/a> to return a piece of the Parthenon held in the Vatican Museums, Greek officials said. According to spokesmen for Christodoulos, Benedict was a bit perplexed by the request, perhaps not knowing that the vast collection included a fragment of the ancient building. He said he would consider the request, they said. <a title=\"More news and information about Greece.\" href=\"http:\/\/topics.nytimes.com\/top\/news\/international\/countriesandterritories\/greece\/index.html?inline=nyt-geo\"><span style=\"color: #004276\">Greece<\/span><\/a> has been campaigning for decades to get back all pieces of the Parthenon held in museums and private collections around the world. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>c<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Teresa Polk has done the great service of translating in the English the Common Declaration signed by the Pope and Christodoulos, the Orthodox Archbishop of Athens One sidebar to the meeting: In his first official visit to the Vatican, Archbishop Christodoulos, the leader of the Greek Orthodox Church, asked Pope Benedict XVI to return a&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":180,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - 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