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On Sunday 24 April 2022 a commemoration was held at the Armenian Pontifical College to mark the 107th anniversary of the Armenian genocide.

Orthodox Christians and Eastern-rite Catholics in Ukraine celebrated Easter Sunday amid ongoing fighting in various area of the country.

Pope Francis sends his Easter greetings to Russian Orthodox Patriarch Kirill, and prays for the people of Ukraine as they long for a “new dawn that will end the darkness of war.”

On 20 April 2022 Reverend Andrzej Choromanski, staff member for multilateral relations, represented the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity at an online meeting of the International Committee of the Global Christian Forum (GCF).

On 1 April 2022, Cardinal Kurt Koch, President of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity, received His Eminence Antonij (Mihalev), Metropolitan for Eastern and Central Europe of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church, and Reverend Ivan Ivanov, parish priest of the Bulgarian Orthodox community in Rome and Milan.

On Thursday 31 March Cardinal Kurt Koch, President of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity, made a presentation at the study day on “Chiesa ed ecclesiologia” (Church and Ecclesiology) organized by the Pontifical University of the Holy Cross in Rome.

Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I has pledged solidarity with Ukrainians and thanked the people of Poland for taking in so many people fleeing the war. He was visiting Ukrainian refugees in Warsaw accompanied by the President of the Polish Bishops’ Conference.

La Sezione Migranti e Rifugiati del Dicastero per la Promozione dello Sviluppo Umano Integrale ha recentemente pubblicato "Orientamenti sulla pastorale migratoria  interculturale". 

Papa Francesco ha ricevuto in udienza privata il Priore di Taizé, Fratel Alois lunedì 21 marzo, e in seguito ha incontrato anche alcuni membri della Comunità.

In a video call to discuss the ongoing war in Ukraine, the Anglican Archbishop of Canterbury and Russian Orthodox Patriarch Kirill of Moscow agree on the need to achieve a lasting peace.

As tensions continue to run high in eastern Europe, the Major Archbishop of Kyiv-Halych, Sviatoslav Shevchuk, is calling for international solidarity with Ukraine. In a statement, the head of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church said it is the duty and responsibility of all humanity to actively work to avert war.

From 10 to 12 February 2022, the conference “The Time is Now” (Już czas) was held in Łódź, Poland, jointly organised by the Catholic Archdiocese of Łódź, CHARIS Poland and the Charismatic Community “Voice in the Desert” of Kraków.

Vatican Secretary of State, Cardinal Pietro Parolin telephones His Beatitude Sviatoslav Schevchuk, Major Archbishop of Kyiv-Halych, to express the Holy See's closeness to the Catholic Church in Ukraine and solidarity with the people of the country, "at this difficult time of escalation of the conflict around Ukraine".

The Facilitation Group of the Global Christian Forum (GCF) expanded by some experts on world Christianity met in Rome from 5-9 February 2022, hosted by the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity (PCPCU).

Pope Francis sends a video message congratulating Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I on thirty years of ministry as Archbishop of Constantinople, and wishing him "many years" - "Chrónia pollá! Ad multos annos!"

On 1 February 2022, the annual Staff Meeting of the Lutheran World Federation (LWF) and the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity (PCPCU) took place in Rome.

Pope Francis presides at Vespers for the Solemnity of the Conversion of St Paul, celebrated in the Basilica of St Paul’s Outside-the-Walls at the conclusion of the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity.

An ecumenical leader in South Sudan has appealed to the world not to give up on his country, which during the first decade of its independence has repeatedly slid backward into political and ethnic violence.

As the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity draws to a close, Christians of different traditions have gathered in Rome for various services thanks to Rome's ecumenical centre, Centro Pro Unione.

An interview with Rev. Mari Valjakka, pastor of Sámi at the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland, highlights the reality of Europe’s only indigenous people and their unique and precious contribution to humanity’s effort to care for Creation.

As the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity continues, the Co-Chair of the Anglican–Roman Catholic International Commission, Archbishop Bernard Longley reflects on the immense work done and the road still to travel towards the goal of full visible unity.

“Ecumenism in a Time of Pandemic: From Crisis to Opportunity” is the title of a working document presented by the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity, and which is the result of a survey conducted in 2021 among all the Bishops' Conferences and Eastern Catholic Synods in the world.

The Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity today publishes a working paper on the consequences of the current pandemic for ecumenical relations.

On Thursday 20 January at 5.00 pm the Institute for Ecumenical Studies of the Angelicum will hold an ecumenical panel on the theme “Ecumenism in a Time of Pandemic” with the attendance of the students of the Bossey Ecumenical Institute.

As the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity begins, Bishop Brian Farrell from the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity reflects on some of the aspects that may have had an effect on Christian unity during this historic period.

For the forthcoming 2022 Week of Prayer for Christian Unity Cardinal Mario Grech and Cardinal Kurt Koch invite all Christians to pray for unity and to continue to journey together.

In the Armenian-Catholic Cathedral of St. Elijah and St. Gregory the Illuminator in the Lebanese capital, the Patriarch of Cilicia of Armenian Catholics, Raphaël Bedros XXI Minassian, invites everyone to overcome differences by looking to Christ the Redeemer and the mystery of the Eucharist.

Pope Francis welcomes an ecumenical delegation from Finland to the Vatican, on the eve of the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity.

Prayer is at the very heart of the ecumenical movement. Jesus prayed that we – his followers – may all be one. When we pray with and for one another, we can feel God’s gift of unity.

During the Angelus Pope Francis recalls this year's Week of Prayer for Christian Unity from 18 to 25 January and invites everyone to offer up their struggles and suffering in favor of Christian unity.