Category - orthodox

Orthodox leader urges European Union to accept Turkey

Ecumenical News International — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 23:46:32 +0100

Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomeos, seen by many of the world's Orthodox Christians as their spiritual leader, has said he backs the bid by Turkey to join the European Union if the Muslim-majority nation meets human rights standards.

Orthodox leader and Dalai Lama make Time magazine top 100

Ecumenical News International — Thu, 08 May 2008 01:01:46 +0100

Bartholomeos I, the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, has joined the Dalai Lama as one of two international religious figures named in the "Time 100" list, the people deemed by Time magazine to be the world's most influential persons.

Call for European churches council to include Catholics

Stephen Brown — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 20:39:50 +0000

The French cleric who heads the main grouping of Anglican, Orthodox and Protestant Christian denominations in Europe has proposed the creation of a Council of European Churches that would also include the Roman Catholic Church.

Orthodox leader says Christians must face their differences together

Ecumenical News International — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 00:07:30 +0000

Churches should be prepared to confront their differences honestly and to examine them in the light scripture, Orthodox Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomeos I told a service to celebrate 60 years since the World Council of Churches was founded.

Grappling with change as a global church

Sara Speicher — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 07:33:44 +0000

This year the World Council of Churches, the primary post-war instrument of global church cooperation, is 60 years old. Sara Speicher explores its role and future in a radically changed world, and asks how churches today can negotiate togetherness and difference.

Global Christian Forum is 'most diverse Christian gathering ever'

staff writers — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 12:55:00 +0000

A unique gathering of high level church leaders starting on Tuesday 6 November 2007 near Nairobi, Kenya, features the broadest range of Christian traditions ever represented at a global meeting, says its organisers.

North American Anglicans authorise trial blessings for same-sex couples

staff writers — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 07:34:55 +0000

Anglicans in Canada and the United States are pushing ahead with local procedures for blessing lesbian and gay people in the church. The US Episcopal Diocese of California has authorised the use of three trial rites for same-sex unions.

Pentecostals deepen conversation with historic churches

staff writers — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 01:02:19 +0100

A second round of dialogue between World Council of Churches (WCC) members and Pentecostals has been inaugurated in Baar, Switzerland. A group of Protestant, Orthodox, Anglican and Pentecostal Christians met to continue work begun in 2005.

New leader chosen for Romanian Orthodox Church

Ecumenical News International — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 01:00:33 +0100

Metropolitan Daniel of Moldavia and Bucovina, who studied in the West and taught at an ecumenical institute near Geneva while his country was under communist rule, has been elected Patriarch of the Romanian Orthodox Church.

Churches urged to support migrant and other vulnerable minority communities

staff writers — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 09:03:58 +0100

Delegates at the Third European Ecumenical Assembly in Sibiu, Romania, concluded their weeklong gathering on 9 September 2007 with a call to the churches of Europe to deepen their support for migrants and other victimised minority groups.