by Sean Reilly | Jun 11, 2008
Mennonite World Conference (MWC), which brings together 1.2 million Anabaptists within the Mennonite family, is sending two deacons to Zimbabwe and calling for two days of global prayer and fasting to coincide with the election run-off. The presidential contest in the...
by Sean Reilly | Jun 10, 2008
Ecumenical theological education is of strategic importance for Christianity in the 21st century. This was the message coming from the IV Congress of the World Conference of Associations of Theological Institutions (WOCATI) held in Neapolis, Thessaloniki and Volos...
by Sean Reilly | Jun 9, 2008
After a visit to Russia, the Vatican’s top official for Christian unity has said a meeting between Pope Benedict XVI and Patriarch Alexei II of the Russian Orthodox Church is “possible”. Such an encounter would be the first-ever meeting between a...
by Sean Reilly | Jun 7, 2008
Nobel Peace Prize laureate Muhammad Yunus and author Peter Matthiessen are among those who have said they will attend an interfaith climate summit being organized by the (Lutheran) Church of Sweden in Uppsala in November 2008. The Uppsala gathering is to take place...
by Sean Reilly | Jun 6, 2008
With an estimated 850 million people suffering from hunger worldwide, nine out of ten of whom live in developing countries, “the scandal of hunger demands the immediate attention of the churches”, affirmed a statement yesterday from World Council of...
