The proposal, for all the Christiann parish churches of the Old Continent, "also geographically distant from each other" to form "twinships of fraternity" among Catholic, Reformed, Orthoxod, Anglican Christians. It was put forward this morning, during the meeting in Rome of the 150 European delegates in preparation of the Third Assembly of Sibiu by Father Vincenzo Solassi and Father Giorgio Paolini, directors of the diocesan offices for ecumenism of Pesaro and Fano, along with Anglican Reverend Cave Bergquist. Through these "twinships" said Father Solazzi "parish churches can take part in the ecumenical journey of the Churches in Europe, by offering them a unique contribution". "If one thousand parish churches of every confession in Europe set up a path of fraternity adde the priest – this would be a spiritual event, which could awaken the Europe of Christians and create a spiritual climate that would foster the priests’ dialogue, for the theologians’ quest, the experience of life and prayer of the ecumenical monasteries". The proposal is the fruit of a ten-year-long experience made by the metropolitan parish of Pesaro, which has offered acts of caring and sharing with an Orthodox Church in Kiev, meetings with several parish churches of the Rumanian Orthoxod Church of Caransebes, ecumenical exchanges between one church of the Italian metropolitan parish and one of the Lutheran Church of Denmark, and twinships with the Anglican diocese of St. Albans.
