Church group head seeks European council that includes Catholics

Geneva (ENI). The head of the main grouping of Anglican, Orthodox, and Protestant denominations in Europe has proposed the creation of a Council of European Churches that would also include the Roman Catholic Church. The Rev. Jean-Arnold de Clermont, a French Protestant who is president of the Conference of European Churches, made the proposal in…

Evangelicals and Catholics: The old edginess fading

Associated Press, via the Arizona Daily Sun, USA July 30, 2005 Richard N. Ostling Evagelical Protestants and Roman Catholics — the nation’s two largest religious blocs — have a relationship that’s been marked in the past by hostility and tension. But now, almost 500 years after Martin Luther, one of the top U.S. evangelical thinkers…

Muslims and Catholics to meet in Rome in the spring

Muslim scholars and leaders stated in their letter to the Holy See: “As Muslims and in obedience to the Holy Quran, we ask Christians to come together with us on the common essentials of our two religions… Let this common ground be the basis of all future interfaith dialogue between us.”LOS ANGELES (Catholic Online) –…