Steven Ricchetti
Vartholomeos has one-hour meeting with Biden: Religion, rights, and geopolitics on US visit
By George Gilson
Ecumenical Patriarch Vartholomeos had a one-hour meeting yesterday afternoon with US President Joe Biden during which the topics of discussion included the re-opening of the patriarchate's Halki Theological Theological Seminary, which was shut down by the Turkish state half a century ago, in 1971, and environmental issues.