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Denmark - Bishop runs into stormy weather for suggesting a possible link between global warming and Day of Judgement.

 
Israel/Palestine: New ecumenical forum for peace
The World Council of Churches (WCC) is launching an international, inter-church advocacy initiative for peace in Israel and Palestine - the Palestine Israel Ecumenical Forum - at a conference June 17-21, 2007, in Jordan.

 
Russian Orthodox patriarch blasts teaching Darwin in schools

apes.jpg Moscow, January 29 (RIA Novosti ) - Imposing on schoolchildren the theory that humans descended from apes is unacceptable, the head of the Russian Orthodox Church said Monday.

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European Christians Gather in Luther's City
Wittenberg, Germany - "Without God's love and mercy we cannot contribute much, as Christians and churches, to the building of Europe", said Protestant Bishop Axel Noack preaching today at the opening service of the ecumenical encounter in the Stadtkirche of Lutherstadt-Wittenberg, Germany.

 
The war on terror cannot be won unless the world changes for rich and poor

 Nairobi, Kenya - The war on terror will "never" be won "as long as there are conditions in the world that make people desperate," like dehumanizing poverty, disease and ignorance, Nobel laureate and former Archbishop Desmond Tutu told ecumenical participants at the start of the 2007 World Social Forum (WSF) in Nairobi.

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ELCA Presiding Bishop, LWF President Visits Romanian Government Officials

BUCHAREST, Romania (ELCA) -- The Rev. Mark S. Hanson, presiding bishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America and president of the Lutheran World Federation (LWF), met Oct. 30 with top officials of the Romanian government here.

 
The Christians of Europe Set Out Towards Sibiu

Representatives of all the churches in Europe will be coming together in Sibiu, Romania, in September 2007 to share in the Third European Ecumenical Assembly (EEA3).  The coordinators of the nine Fora which will take place during the Assembly met in Geneva on 30 October 2006.

 
Athos in Helsinki

”Athos – Monastic Life on the Holy Mountain”, major exhibition on Byzantine art at the Finnish Tennispalatsi Art Museum in Helsinki, has raised interest both in Finland and on the international level. The treasures of the monasteries of Athos are now first time available for the eyes of the general public outside the Holy Mountain and Greece. The exhibition, which was opened in August 2006, has attracted over 30 000 visitors from Finland and far beyond, and it has deepened the local ecumenical relations in Finland.

 
Russian Orthodox churches could heal rift, unite in 2007
Moscow, 8 Sept (RIA Novosti) - Russian Orthodox believers could soon be united in one church after a rift that has outlasted the fall of communism, a Moscow church official said Friday.

 
Empress Dagmar - Maria Fjodorovna - Returns to Russia
Princess Dagmar - Maria Fjodorovna - as widowDenmark, 23 Oct –Today Empress Dagmar, the mother of Russia’s last tsar Nikolaj II, started her last journey from Denmark to St. Petersburg where she will be re-buried at the St. Peter and Paul Cathedral Thursday by Patriarch Alexei II.

 
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