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WCC and Global Christian Forum seek Christian unity together
By Admin Webmaster 2/6/2016 10:31:10 AMA World Council of Churches (WCC) seminar has marked the strengthening of relationships between the WCC and the Global Christian Forum (GCF), affirming their distinctive and complementary roles in the quest for Christian unity. -
Pope to Orthodox Syrian Catholicos from India: let us work towards reconciliation, unity
By Admin Webmaster 2/6/2016 10:31:10 AMMay we “continue and intensify the commitment to ecumenism, encounter and dialogue towards full communion:” with that message, Pope Francis on Thursday welcomed in the Vatican Baselios Paulose II, Catholicos of the East and Metropolitan of -
Indonesian churches to contribute spirit of diversity to WCC assembly
By Admin Webmaster 2/6/2016 10:31:10 AMWith 15 million members of various ethnicities and backgrounds living alongside the world’s largest national Muslim population, Indonesian churches hope to make a dynamic contribution to the upcoming assembly of the World Council of Churches (WCC) in Busan, Republic of Korea. -
Chaldean Patriarch Sako: Intervention against Syria would be 'a disaster'
By Admin Webmaster 2/6/2016 10:31:10 AMBaghdad - The US-led military intervention against Syria would be "a disaster. It would be like a volcano erupting with an explosion meant to destroy Iraq, Lebanon, Palestine. And maybe someone wants this". This is what the Patriarch of Babylon of the ... -
Prayer Cycle (25-31 August, 2013): Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania
By Admin Webmaster 2/6/2016 10:31:10 AMYou, O Christ, have the words of eternal life. You are the Holy One of God, but most Estonians don’t know you. They don’t know to whom they can go. Many individuals are desperate, addicted to ... -
Ecumenical publication in Latin America focuses on eco-theology
By Admin Webmaster 2/6/2016 10:31:10 AMA book launched in Buenos Aires, Argentina, last month reinforced debate on the theme of eco-theology in Latin America with a direct contribution from the World Council of Churches (WCC). -
LWF General Secretary Junge Lauds Joint Witness of Canada’s Lutherans and Anglicans
By Admin Webmaster 2/6/2016 10:31:10 AMThe Lutheran World Federation has lauded the full communion of Canada’s Lutheran and Anglican churches, marked in an unprecedented Joint Assembly highlighting the connection between Christian unity and service. -
WCC calls for world without nuclear weapons
By Admin Webmaster 2/6/2016 10:31:10 AMThe World Council of Churches has issued a statement calling for an end to nuclear aggression as the world marks this week’s anniversary of the destruction of the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The message, signed by WCC ... -
Two ecumenical bodies established for Sudan and South Sudan
By Admin Webmaster 2/6/2016 10:31:10 AMThe decision establishing the two ecumenical organizations was shared in a report released by the Sudanese church leadership on 27 July. The bodies are the South Sudan Council of Churches (SSCC), based in Juba, and the Sudan Council of Churches (SCC), based in Khartoum. -
Ecumenical Review gauges the movement’s direction
By Admin Webmaster 2/6/2016 10:31:10 AMThe July 2013 instalment of the quarterly journal The Ecumenical Review contemplates the future, and particularly the future of the World Council of Churches beyond its 10th Assembly. The assembly is to take place from 30 Oct... -
Conference of European Churches adopts new constitution
By Admin Webmaster 2/6/2016 10:31:10 AMFollowing the conclusion of a meeting in Budapest this month, the Conference of European Churches (CEC) has begun operating under a new Constitution that includes moving its original offices from Geneva to Brussels to improve ties with the European Union... -
Dialogue doesn't distance us from truth but leads us to whole truth
By Admin Webmaster 2/6/2016 10:31:10 AM“The search for unity among Christians is an urgent task—you have said that 'it is not a luxury, but an imperative'—from which, today more than ever, we cannot prescind. In our world that hungers and thirsts for truth, love, hope, peace, and unity, our witness demands -
Towards full participation of people with disabilities in churches
By Admin Webmaster 2/6/2016 10:31:10 AMIn a recent meeting in the Netherlands, theologians and ecumenists came together to give renewed consideration to an interim statement titled A Church of All and for All, first produced in 2003 by the Ecumenical Disability Advocates Network (EDAN), a project... -
Catholics and Lutherans agree to bury the hatchet
By Admin Webmaster 2/6/2016 10:31:10 AMLutherans and Catholics have pledged to celebrate together the 500th anniversary of the Protestant Reformation in 2017, with both sides agreeing to set aside centuries of hostility and prejudice. -
Appeal for Catholic-Orthodox unity and an end to the war in Syria
By Admin Webmaster 2/6/2016 10:31:10 AMThe synods of the Melkite Catholic and Greek Orthodox Churches got underway today in Lebanon. As the bishops pray for Mgrs Bouls Yazigi and Youhanna Ibrahim, abducted on 22 April, Gregory III Laham, patriarch of Antioch, criticises the Western decision to send weapons to the rebels. -
Lutherans and Catholics: From Conflict to Communion
By Admin Webmaster 2/6/2016 10:31:10 AMFrom Conflict to Communion: that’s how Lutherans and Catholics are describing their ecumenical journey of the past 50 years, as they look ahead together to the 500th anniversary of the Reformation in 2017. -
The path towards unity
By Admin Webmaster 2/6/2016 10:31:10 AM“Let us travel the path towards unity, fraternally united in charity”. This was Pope Francis' invitation to His Grace Justin Welby, Archbishop of Canterbury and Primate of the Anglican Communion, received in audience on ... -
Consultation reflects on how to build peace with justice in Asia
By Admin Webmaster 2/6/2016 10:31:10 AMIn a World Council of Churches (WCC) consultation in Tsuen Wan, Hong Kong, participants reflected on “Asia’s human security challenges” today and how to strengthen efforts of working towards “sustainable peace with justice in Northeast Asia.” -
Cardinal Koch visits Ukraine to deepen Catholic-Orthodox dialogue
By Admin Webmaster 2/6/2016 10:31:10 AMThe head of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity, Cardinal Kurt Koch, heads off to Ukraine on Wednesday for a visit aimed at deepening the dialogue between Catholics and Orthodox in the former Soviet state. -
Cardinal Sandri attends inauguration of University of Madaba in Jordan
By Admin Webmaster 2/6/2016 10:31:10 AMThe Prefect of the Congregation for the Eastern Churches, Cardinal Leonardo Sandri, today attended the official inauguration of the University of Madaba in Jordan, belonging to the Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem. Among those attending were His Majesty, King Abdullah II of Jordan... -
Seminar invokes reflections on eco-theology and care for creation
By Admin Webmaster 2/6/2016 10:31:10 AMA seminar at the Ecumenical Institute of Bossey, Switzerland gathered diverse reflections on eco-theology, care for the creation and climate change, and how to build a sustainable world. The contributors included Christian theologians and activists as well as youth. -
CLAI’s president-elect values regional ecumenical relations
By Admin Webmaster 2/6/2016 10:31:10 AMFollowing five ballots, Rev. Felipe Adolf was elected on 24 May as president of the board of the Latin American Council of Churches (CLAI), during the 6th Assembly of this regional council in Havana, Cuba, meeting from 20 to 26 May. -
Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA) in Vietnam
By Admin Webmaster 2/6/2016 10:31:10 AMADRA is a non-government organisation which has been active in Vietnam for more than 20 years, implementing over 180 development and relief projects across the country in various sectors. Currently,... -
New director of Rome's Anglican Centre
By Admin Webmaster 2/6/2016 10:31:10 AMThe new director of Rome’s Anglican Centre, former Archbishop of New Zealand David Moxon will be officially welcomed to his new post on Thursday at an ecumenical prayer service in Rome’s Oratory of St Francis Xavier, run by the Caravita international Catholic community. -
Catholic Bishop in Egypt notes hopes for strengthened ties with Copts
By Admin Webmaster 2/6/2016 10:31:10 AMA Coptic Catholic bishop has expressed hopes that the historic meeting May 10 between Pope Francis and Coptic Orthodox Pope Tawadros II will lead to the Coptic Orthodox Church recognizing Catholic baptism. “I think that this really is a watershed. Tawadros is quite different ... -
Catholics and Orthodox recall Constantine's Edict of Milan
By Admin Webmaster 2/6/2016 10:31:10 AMCatholic and Orthodox leaders are meeting in the Turkish city of Istanbul this week for a seminar on religious freedom, 1,700 years after Emperor Constantine granted freedom of conscience and ended persecution against Christians in the Roman Empire. -
Pope Francis welcomes Egypt's Coptic Orthodox Pope Tawadros
By Admin Webmaster 2/6/2016 10:31:10 AMPope Tawadros of Alexandria, who heads the largest Christian Church in the Middle East, is currently making a five day visit to Rome, his first outside Egypt since his enthronement last November. He’s due to hold talks with Vatican and Italian officials, as well as celebrating together with -
Syrian priest: Let us pray for the release of kidnapped prelates and for reconciliation in Syria
By Admin Webmaster 2/6/2016 10:31:10 AMTomorrow, in the Basilica of Santa Maria in Cosmedin, there will be a Mass for the release of Mgrs Yohanna Ibrahim and Paul Yazigi and all the people kidnapped in Syria... -
From Conflict to Communion
By Admin Webmaster 2/6/2016 10:31:10 AMThe 500th Anniversary of the Reformation in 2017 will also mark 50 years of dialogue between the two churches, which the commission noted offers cause for celebration. -
Dialogue Commission to Publish 'From Conflict to Communion'
By Admin Webmaster 2/6/2016 10:31:10 AMAfter centuries of mistrust and prejudging between Lutherans and Catholics, we see this publication as a great opportunity to reflect together on the burdens of history, and to open more possibilities for witnessing together, not just as individual Christians but as Christian churches,...