“While we are getting ready for the Third European Ecumenical Assembly (Aee3) of Sibiu (4-8 September 2007), we express our appreciation of the testimony and commitment of Christians all over Ireland. Their efforts boost reconciliation and the peace process in Europe”. This was said in a statement issued today by the Central Committee of Kek (Conference of European Churches, an ecumenical body which brings together 125 Orthodox, Protestant, Anglican and Old Catholic Churches) the day after the meeting which ended on May 31st in Londonderry (Ireland). As to the Aee3, the Central Committee of Kek (40 members) recommends "that the member churches will send well-balanced delegations of clergymen, priests, laymen, including young people" and encourages "twinning schemes across Europe, especially with the Rumanian Churches". During the meeting, the participants spoke of the current state of rearrangement of Kek with a view to its merger with Ceme (Commission of the Churches for Migrants in Europe) and the managing committee that has just taken office in order to coordinate the activity of the branches of Geneva, Brussels and Strasbourg. Rüdiger Noll was reconfirmed as head of the Church and Society Commission and deputy secretary general of Kek; Viorel Ionita was appointed director of the Church In Dialogue Commission.
