2006 will be a landmark year for the Order of St. Andrew the Apostle. A preview of the 2006 highlights are as follows:

• Historic Archon Pilgrimage to Phanar led by Archbishop Demetrios of America coinciding with visit of His Holiness Pope Benedict XVI to His All Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew
• Legal Committee breaks new ground in preparing to bring Turkey to European Court of Human Rights
• Senate Letter to President Bush regarding religious freedom crisis imperiling survival of Ecumenical Patriarchate signed by majority of US Senators; project coordinated by Regional Commander Andrew E. Manatos and staff of Manatos & Manatos
• Archon Leadership meets with EU officials, European Parliament and president of Austria, the presiding EU member nation at that time
• 2006 Athenagoras Human Rights Award presented to National Vice Commander Archon Nicholas J. Bouras…AXIOS!
• We will never give up! We will continue to work ceaselessly until the Great and Holy Mother Church of Constantinople, the Ecumenical Patriarchate can practice its worldwide ministry freely and without having its unalienable freedoms constrained