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Face up to differences in order to stay united, says Orthodox leader

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18 February 2008 Peter Kenny Geneva (ENI). Churches should be prepared to confront their differences honestly and to examine them in the light of the scriptures, Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomeos I has said at a service to celebrate 60 years since the World Council of Churches was founded with its goal of Christian unity. “The bonds…

Church group head seeks European council that includes Catholics

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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…

Veltroni intends to create a ‘Religions Organization of Nations’ in Rome

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Italy, Religion 14-02-2008. The leader of the Italian Democratic Party, Walter Veltroni, today proposed the creation of an ‘Organization of Religions Nations’ Rome-based, and said that the idea’ liked ‘by both the secretary of the UN, Ban Ki-moon, as Pope Benedict XVI. Veltroni explained that his idea is the creation of a ‘palace of religions’…

Pope says the goal of Ecumenical dialogue remains unchanged: one single visible Church

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Vatican City, Nov 17, 2006 / 12:00 am (CNA).- Speaking to the participants at the plenary session of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity, Pope Benedict recalled that the primary goal of ecumenical dialogue remains the same: to reach one, single, visible Church. “We live in a period of great change in almost all…

WCC head tells Vatican newspaper, shared communion is his goal

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Rome (ENI). The general secretary of the World Council of Churches, the Rev. Samuel Kobia, hopes that by the middle of the 21st century Christians will have reached a level of unity so that they can share Holy Communion together. Kobia said this in a front page interview published in the official Vatican daily newspaper…

Evangelicals and Catholics: The old edginess fading

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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…

Benedict XVI begins work at Vatican

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The Associated Press. VATICAN CITY – Pope Benedict XVI on Wednesday pledged to work to unify all Christians, reach out to other religions and continue implementing reforms from the Second Vatican Council as he outlined his goals and made clear his pontificate would closely follow the trajectory of his predecessor, Pope John Paul II. Benedict,…

Muslims and Catholics to meet in Rome in the spring

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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) –…

It is imperative that all the world’s faiths unite under a global church

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“East or west, home is best”, now seems to have a new meaning among religious groups following Pope Benedict XVI’s ecumenical invitation on his inauguration day. The rallying cry for religious unity by the late John Paul II appears to be bearing fruits. Both pontiffs pledged commitment to the Vatican II Council of the 1960s,…

Church and state at the United Nations – Religion

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Frances Kissling THERE IS increasing concern that the traditional barriers between church and state in the U.S. are under threat. Pres. Bush’s decision to set up a White House Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives has caused considerable debate about the role religion should play in public policy and the delivery of social services. There…