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New Possibilities in the Quest for Visible Unity

21.02.2006 || World Ecumenical News || MAT
As portrayed by Dr J Norberto Saracco in his "Contribution from the Evangelical Churches of Latin America" yesterday at the WCC 9th Assembly, the Church is a personal reality not a concept. Read more...


WCC Assembly looks at the ecumenical future
21.02.2006 || World Ecumenical News || MAT
Leading theologians have addressed the World Council of Churches 9th Assembly on the theme of church unity. Scholars from the Protestant, Oriental Orthodox and Catholic traditions offered reflective comments on the document "Called To Be the One Church" in a session entitled "Church Unity – Claiming a Common Future". Read more...


Donation of the WCC to the IES and UCU
17.02.2006 || IES News || MAT
The World Council of Churches has recently offered over 800 kgs of books and other materials to the Ukrainian Catholic University and the Institute of Ecumenical Studies. Read more...


Christian identity and religious plurality
17.02.2006 || World Ecumenical News || MAT
An exchange between the Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams, Dr Anna May Chain from Myanmar and Dr Assaad Kattan from Lebanon helps participants in today's plenary Read more...


All who have been baptized into Christ are united with Christ in his body
17.02.2006 || World Ecumenical News || MAT
Called to be the one church: An invitation to the churches to renew their commitment to the search for unity and to deepen their dialogue. WCC assemblies have adopted texts offering a vision, or identifying the qualities, of “the unity we seek”. This assembly in Porto Alegre, Brazil, is invited to consider and adopt the present invitation to the churches. Read more...


WCC 9th Assembly: Plenary Session on Economic Justice
17.02.2006 || World Ecumenical News || MAT
Yesterday took place the first plenary session, focused on "Economic Justice". Speakers included Wolfgang Huber, Nancy Cardoso, etc. Read more...


WCC 9th Assembly: Considering Crucial Issues
16.02.2006 || World Ecumenical News || MAT
Assembly plenary sessions on crucial contemporary issues are designed to present these issues in a manner that highlights their importance and relevance for the churches and the ecumenical movement. Today's topic: Economic Justice Read more...


WCC 9th Assembly: A time of encounter, prayer, celebration and deliberation
15.02.2006 || World Ecumenical News || MAT
WCC 9th Assembly: A time of encounter, prayer, celebration and deliberation The 9th Assembly of the World Council of Churches started yesterday in Porto Alegre, Brazil. The list of participants at press conferences and briefings includes Read more...


IES PRESENT at WCC 9th ASSEMBLY in BRAZIL
14.02.2006 || IES News || MAT
Director of IES participates in the WCC 9th Assembly in Brazil.

Dr. Antoine Arjakovsky asked during this tuesday morning press conference a question to His Holiness Aram I -President of the WCC Central Committee- and to Samuel Kobia -General Secretary- on the recent Prophet Muhammad cartoons row. Read more...


WCC 9th ASSEMBLY starts in BRAZIL
14.02.2006 || World Ecumenical News || MAT
The first Assembly of the World Council of Churches (WCC) in the 21st century opens in Porto Alegre, Brazil, today, 14 February, under the theme “God, in your grace, transform the world”.

The Assembly, which meets every seven years, is the highest governing body of the WCC, the world’s broadest global gathering of churches and Christian organizations. Read more...


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