The national Hungarian meeting before the Third European Ecumenical Assembly (EEA3) took place in Gyula yesterday. Gyula is a town near the frontier with Romania. The Orthodox St. Nicholas Cathedral hosted the ecumenical liturgies of Rumanian believers; the representatives of the Catholic, Calvinist and Orthodox Churches took part in it. There was also Colin Williams, secretary general of the Conference of European Churches (CEC, KEK), who illustrated the purposes of the ecumenical meeting in Sibiu, which is taking place on 4 to 7 September 2007. Sibiu, a town with plenty of multicultural history, is also known as Nagyszeben (in Hungarian), or Hermannstadt (in German). This town deserved the title of European capital of culture. 2100 delegates from the different Churches all over Europe are expected at the meeting.
