Pope Francis has established a World Day of Prayer for the Care of Creation. It will be celebrated on September 1st every year. The Pope was inspired by the Orthodox Ecumenical Patriarchate, which…
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Dr. Geoff Tunnicliffe, secretary general of the World Evangelical Alliance has recently met with the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, Bartholomew I, in Istanbul, Turkey. Together they discussed the current crisis and the…
Sun, Jul 20 19:23 PM EDT, by Dominic Evans and Raheem Salman BAGHDAD (Reuters) – The head of Iraq’s largest church said on Sunday that Islamic State militants who drove Christians out…
21 July 2014, Statement and call for solidarity: The present situation in Iraq is a tragedy for many, both Christians and Muslims, and deeply worrying. One effect of this has been the…
03 July 2014 Early Thursday morning – the very morning he would gather with his World Council of Churches (WCC) colleagues to talk about unity among churches and solidarity in conflicts –…
Dr Eamon Duffy has summed up Mortalium Animos, Pius XI’s 1928 Encyclical On Religious Unity, which denounced ecumenism and false eirenicism, as an ultimatum to other Christians – Orthodox and post-Reformation Christians alike…
Antelias – On Saturday 26 June, H.B Ignatius Aphrem II made an official visit to the Catholicosate of Cilicia and met with H.H. Catholicos Aram I. After canonical prayers at the St.…
13 June 2014 – Meeting in Armenia, 11-12 June 2014 Church leaders and representatives from Syria, the Middle East Council of Churches (MECC), the World Council of Churches (WCC), the Mother See…
Accompanied by high ranking delegation composed of ten primates, His Holiness Aram I began his official visit to the Vatican on Tuesday 3 June 2014. Aram I arrived in Rome by a…
A Protestant, rather than an ecumenical, take on ecumenism and the Papacy. NB the Catholic Church is not a member of the WCC because it does not accept the principle of legitimate…