His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew, deeply concerned about the developments in the Middle East, communicated by telephone with His Beatitude John, Patriarch of Antioch and inquired about his well-being and that of the faithful of his jurisdiction. He expressed his heartfelt wishes and the sincere concern both of himself and of the Ecumenical Patriarchate, invoking upon them the unfailing protection of Christ the Prince of Peace and of the Most Holy Theotokos.