On Friday 4 November a party of 32 from St Christopher’s Cathedral in Bahrain, including Archbishop Michael and Julia, attended a unique ecumenical service of prayer for peace at the newly completed Roman Catholic cathedral of Our Lady of Arabia in Awali.
His Holiness the Pope presided. The Ecumenical Patriarch of the Orthodox, Bartholomew I, sat beside him, together with leaders representing most major traditional branches of Christianity. Archbishop Michael was among them and proclaimed the account of Pentecost from the Acts of the Apostles.