ΤΟ ΣΥΛΛΥΠΗΤΗΡΙΟ ΠΑΤΡΙΑΡΧΙΚΟ ΓΡΑΜΜΑ ΠΡΟΣ ΤΟΝ ΒΑΣΙΛΙΑ ΤΗΣ ΟΛΛΑΝΔΙΑΣ ΓΙΑ ΤΑ ΘΥΜΑΤΑ ΤΗΣ ΑΕΡΟΠΟΡΙΚΗΣ ΤΡΑΓΩΔΙΑΣ ΣΤΗΝ ΟΥΚΡΑΝΙΑ

The Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomeos with His Majesty King Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands
(The Hague 2014)

Ο Οικουμενικός Πατριάρχης Βαρθολομαίος με επιστολή του προς τον Βασιλιά της Ολλανδίας Willem-Alexander εκφράζει την βαθύτατη λύπη του και την συμπαράστασή του στις οικογένειες των θυμάτων - Ολλανδών πολιτών της αεροπορικής τραγωδίας των Μαλαισιανών αερογραμμών στην Ουκρανία.
Ταυτόχρονα ο Μητροπολίτης Βελγίου και Έξαρχος Κάτω Χωρών Αθηναγόρας, ως επικεφαλής της Συνόδου των Ορθοδόξων Επισκόπων Μπενελούξ, προσεύχεται με όλους τους ορθοδόξους χριστιανούς για την ανάπαυση των ψυχών των θυμάτων.

Personal message of His All-Holiness the Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew, leader of the worldwide Orthodox Church, to His Majesty King Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands after the crash of the Malaysian airliner in Ukraine. As chairman of the Orthodox Bishops Conference of the Benelux His Eminence Metropolitan Athenagoras of Belgium and Exarch of the Netherlands and Luxemburg prays - with all orthodox christians of the Benelux - for the numerous victims of the incident and for their relatives! Eternal memory! 

Ἡ Α. Θ. Παναγιότης, ὁ Πατριάρχης ἐπί τῷ ἀκούσματι τοῦ τραγικοῦ ἀεροπορικοῦ δυστυχήματος ἐν Οὐκρανίᾳ, καθ᾿ὅ ἀπώλεσαν τήν ζωήν των καί πολλοί Ὁλλανδοί πολῖται, ἀπέστειλε θερμόν συλλυπητήριον Μήνυμα τῇ Α. Μεγαλειότητι, τῷ Βασιλεῖ Willem-Alexander, μεθ᾿ οὗ εἶχε συναντηθῆ ἐν τῷ Βασιλικῷ Οἴκῳ τῆς Ὁλλανδικῆς Πρωτευούσης τόν παρελθόντα Ἀπρίλιον.

Patriarchal Letter to His Majesty Willem-Alexander on the Recent Malaysia Airlines Tragedy 

Your Majesty, 

It is with great pain and sorrow that we have learned of the tragic crash of the Malaysian airliner in Ukraine, and the tragic loss of so many lives, citizens mostly from your country, men and women, young and old. On behalf of the Ecumenical Patriarchate, we wish to convey our deepest condolences to 

Your Majesty and through You, to the leaders and people of the Netherlands, most especially to the families of the victims. We hope and pray that the facts and causes of this disaster will be established as quickly as possible, and we raise our hearts and hands to God in the highest, fervently praying to Him to send upon each and every afflicted soul His infinite mercy, comforting the mourners for the loss of their relatives. May God accept the repentance of humankind and not allow any similar tragedy from happening anywhere in the world. 

At the Ecumenical Patriarchate, the eighteenth of July, 2014

Prayerfully yours, 

+ BARTHOLOMEW Archbishop of Constantinople-New Rome 

and Ecumenical Patriarch