Hope, encouragement, and emotion. These are the words with which the representatives of the Christian Churches defined today’s meeting with Pope Benedict XVI. 28 Representatives from the Evangelical churches, the Orthodox churches, the free churches, the old Eastern churches and members from the German Ecumenical Commission. "The Pope’s visit to the Synagogue this morning and the ecumenical meeting this afternoon – said Cardinal Karl Lehmann to the journalists tell the world that the Church does not only look at itself but also looks around, and show we cannot live alone". "After this meeting said Bishop Wolfgang Huber, President of the German Evangelical Churches I feel encouraged and trusting to go ahead and continue the ecumenical dialogue". (continued)
