"This year’s celebration of the hundredth anniversary of the Week of Prayer for the Unity of Christians will be am opportunity to render thanks unto God for the unity which, although incomplete, the Churches already have and effectively experience". This has been written by Kersten Storch, a Lutheran pastor from Germany, whom this year the World Council of the Churches has entrusted with commenting the Week of Prayer for the Unity that Christians all over the world will live from 18th to 25th January. "This year’s theme, Pray all the time, sheds light on the fact the Christians and the Churches cannot stop praying for unity". "Divisions writes the Lutheran pastor remain open within and between the Churches". Even if "The Week of Prayer for the Unity of Christians cannot offer a solution to all these problems", "celebrating it every year is a victory over divisions, because it embodies the unity that the Christians really have in Christ". Founded in 1948, the World Council of the Churches currently includes 347 Protestant, Orthodox and Anglican Churches, representing a total of 560 million Christians.
