During this week of prayer for Christian unity, the different denominations present here in Rome are hosting a full programme of liturgical and other events that can foster greater understanding of the common values and unique heritages of each tradition.
This coming Lent, the Anglican mission agency USPG is exploring the meaning of peace/shalom within a biblical context and urging church-goers to renew their commitment to peace.
From the World Association for Christian Communications
As communities around the globe mark World AIDS Day on 1 December, there is a new emphasis on “Getting to Zero”: achieving zero deaths, zero new infections and zero discrimination by 2015. These goals, set by UNAIDS, set the targets for the treatment, prevention, care and support needed to overcome the HIV pandemic.
By Charlie Shifflett, Five Talents
At last week's annual board meeting in Vienna, Virginia, Five Talents cast its vision for the future and celebrated its most recent successes.
By David Gibson, Religion News Service in Huffington Post
Can an Anglican theologian from Britain revive an 80-year-old Catholic social justice theory and provide a solution to America's economic woes and political polarization?
After six days of intense deliberation, WACC’s leadership has a new vision and sense of purpose. Twenty-three Directors from around the world, two consultants, and 11 staffers have wrapped up a week-long series of meetings ending in new priorities and directions for WACC’s future life and work.
There we were, thinking the Anglican Communion was all about conflict and tension, scrapping and bitching, and someone has to spoil it by telling a different story.
By John Zarocostas in Geneva for ENI news
Three organizations, representing about 90 percent of world Christianity, launched on 28 June a global code of conduct for proselytizing in a bid to reduce tensions between different religious convictions.
By Jonathan Luxmoore ENInews
Orthodox churches remain "fully committed" to ecumenical cooperation, despite recent disagreements with Protestants, according to a senior Orthodox theologian.
By Mike Brooks, USPG
The new Chief Executive of the Anglican mission agency USPG has pledged her commitment to supporting capacity building in the world church.
The World Student Christian Federation has partnered with the World Council of Churches (WCC) to share stories and messages of peace emerging from the International Ecumenical Peace Convocation (IEPC) this week in Jamaica, one of the most important ecumenical events of the decade.
Five essays have been selected as the top entries in the Echos International Ecumenical Peace Convocation (IEPC) essay contest. It is tied to the IEPC, sponsored by the World Council of Churches (WCC), an event which is to be held in Kingston, Jamaica from 17 to 25 May 2011.
Read the blog by Gill Jackson of England's Diocese of Leicester who is in New York, USA, to attend the 55th Session of the UN's Commission on the Status of Women
