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  • 23 May 2009
    Building unity through peace is key task, says Reformed leader

    The lessons of a 16th century theologian born in France speak directly to a post-modern world hungry for peaceful and united communities according to the president of a global network of Protestant churches.

  • 24 Mar 2009
    Catholic Church called on to revoke Luther's excommunication

    An international expert on church unity has urged the Roman Catholic Church to declare officially that its longstanding excommunication of Martin Luther no longer applies.

  • 22 Jan 2009
    Ambitions for church unity 'unrealistic'

    Ambitions for church unity are unrealistic and are being replaced in practice by local action, national church leaders have said. The heads of the churches responded to questions put to them by the Church Times and the Baptist Times

  • 20 Feb 2008
    Orthodox leader says Christians must face their differences together

    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.

  • 26 Nov 2007
    WCC appoints Canadian to promote good relations among churches

    As churches throughout the world absorb the significance of the recent ground-breaking Global Christian Forum, the World Council of Churches (WCC) has made a new appointment to a post aimed at promoting dialogue on key issues.

  • 12 Oct 2007
    Catholics and Orthodox moving towards unity, says Pope

    Catholic and Orthodox Christians are moving towards unity, the leader of the world's 1.2 billion Roman Catholics declared at the end of his recent general audience in St Peter's Square, Rome. The Pope announced an international commission on the issue.

  • 7 Sep 2007
    European pan-church assembly seeks a fresh unity impetus

    Representatives of Europe's main Protestant, Catholic, Orthodox and Anglican churches say they hope a six-day ecumenical assembly in the Romanian city of Sibiu will give a new impetus to the movement for Christian unity - and enable them to meet today's challenges.

  • 27 Jul 2007
    New approach needed to Christian unity, says Catholic cardinal

    Dialogue in the quest for Christian unity has proved to be immensely valuable in the United States and globally but may have hit a plateau, a leading Catholic cardinal has said during the commemoration of a US ecumenical milestone.

  • 16 Jul 2007
    Catholic document a setback to unity, claims Protestant

    A new document authorised by Pope Benedict XVI restating Roman Catholic views that Protestant denominations are not churches "in the proper sense" has been criticised as setting back the quest for Christian unity.

  • 19 Feb 2007
    German president challenges churches to unity not division

    German President Horst Kohler has called on Christian churches to redouble efforts to promote unity, warning they risk squandering their opportunities by letting differences and disputes drown out the message of their faith - writes Stephen Brown for Ecumenical News International (ENI).