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The Christian Churches say no to any military attack against Iraq and appeal to Bagdad to respect the UN resolutions and permit the weapons inspectors to enter the country. Meeting in Geneva, the WCC’s central committee endorsed the joint letter written by the Churches of the USA, Canada and the United Kingdom to ask the […]

The World Council of Churches (WCC) has decied to abandon its majority procedure and “progressively” adopt the “method of consensus” as a system for taking its own decisions. This is one of the most important innovations decided on by the WCC’s central committee, which met in Geneva from 25 August to 3 September, to respond […]

Some fifty representatives of the episcopal conferences and the Christian Churches in Europe, from 26 different countries, met at Ottmaring to review the process of the reception of the Charta Oecumenica in the Churches, a year after its signing in Strasbourg. The exchange of experiences provided an occasion to assess the more important ecumenical initiatives […]

In this first year of life the Charta Oecumenica “has been widely and effectively used to stimulate and concentrate the efforts of dialogue between the Churches”. Now the European Christians look to the future, and especially to the “specific examples” that may be developed from the text with a view to its “implementation” in local […]

The representation of the countries of Eastern Europe, of the former Yugoslavia and the countries with an Orthodox majority, at the Ottmaring consultation was strong and significant. And if the Charta Oecumenica has met with a particularly positive response in Austria, France, Germany and Italy, some Churches in countries with an Orthodox majority – such […]

“It was important to examine at what point the Christian communities have reached in their reception and implementation of this Charta Oecumenica”. So said Archbishop Giuseppe Chiaretti of Perugia who in his role as president of the Commission for ecumenism of the Italian Episcopal Conference participated in the consultation at Ottmaring. In the archbishop’s view, […]

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The floods that struck many countries in central and eastern Europe in recent weeks have fortunately only partially involved Slovakia. Only some villages in the mountainous centre of the country and the village of Devin, close to Bratislava, inundated by the Danube, were left under water. A good deal more extensive, indeed, was the “wave […]

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“A text, a process, a dream”, that’s how the Charta Oecumenica was defined at the end of the consultation that the Council of the European Episcopal Conferences (CCEE) and the Conference of the Churches of Europe (KEK) promoted from 7 to 10 September at Ottmaring to review the process of the Charter’s reception in Europe […]

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Dal 22 aprile 2001circola in Europa un documento che sta diventando una proposta di agenda per le Chiese e uno strumento a servizio del comune impegno ecumenico. Come tutti i testi, anche la “ Charta oecumenica – linee guida per la crescita della collaborazione tra le Chiese in Europa” è sottoposta alla critica del tempo […]

I Capi di Stato e di governo dell’Unione Europea, il presidente del Parlamento europeo, il presidente della Commissione europea e l’alto rappresentante per la politica estera e di sicurezza comune, in occasione del primo anniversario degli attentati contro gli Stati Uniti, lo scorso 11 settembre, hanno diffuso una dichiarazione comune. “Gli avvenimenti dell’11 settembre – […]