Card. Ivan Dias, president of the Congregation for the evangelization of peoples will be one of the main speakers at the "Lambeth Conference", the meeting of the Anglican primates from all over the world, which this year is taking place in Canterbury from 16th July to 4th August. That meeting happens every ten years. The list of participants (coming from the ecumenical world) includes also Card. Walter Kasper, president of the Papal Council for the Promotion of Christian Unity. It was made known today through a note by the Anglican Communion, spread to point out the "remarkable ecumenical presence" at the Lambeth Conference. As for Card. Dias, the note emphasized that the Vatican speaker was convinced about the need of a "strong token of Christian faith, in every situation". In the note, made known in a particularly critical time for the destiny of the unity of the Anglican world, it is stated that "the Anglican Communion is constantly pledging for the ecumenical movement, and is currently involved in dialogues, on international level, with the Baptist, Lutheran, Methodist, Old Catholic, Oriental Orthodox, Orthodox, and Roman Catholic Churches". The note recalls also the most recent ecumenical bilateral agreements, and in particular, it mentions the document "Growing Together in Unity and Mission", published with the Catholic Church.
