 "It is nice to see how the money for aid to Africa comes from ordinary people," said Rev. Dr Samuel Kobia, while going from house to house in the snowy streets of Copenhagen. "Some Africans rather associate help from Europe with big organizations and states."
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London (shipoffools.com) - On Sunday 24 April churches in London will be visited by an "army" of under cover church goers. It is the internetsite shipoffools.com who is behind this event and the aim is to check the quality of the services around the city. The reports from the church goers will apear on their website two weeks later. |
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ATHENS (AP) -- The head of Greece's powerful Orthodox Church on Friday rejected growing calls for him to step down, but said two of his close aides had been suspended amid mounting scandals.
"An archbishop does not resign," Archbishop Christodoulos told reporters outside the archdiocese. |
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In an age when many studies suggest younger generations are showing less interest in denominational affiliations and church institutions, a group of 27 young adults spent more than two weeks immersed in the work of one of the world's largest ecumenical bodies, the World Council of Churches (WCC).
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A new group of 12 "ecumenical accompaniers" last
week joined four others staying on in Israel and Palestine from previous groups
within the framework of the Ecumenical Accompaniment Programme in Palestine and Israel (EAPPI).
The new arrivals
bring the total number of ecumenical accompaniers now
on the ground to 16.
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 Dean Anders Gadegaard of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Denmark is a
member of the World Council of Churches (WCC) central and executive committees,
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GENEVA (ELCA)
-- A one-year increase of 3.63 million Christians among member churches of
the Lutheran World Federation (LWF) put the total LWF membership at
65,927,334 in 2004, according to the latest statistical data from the LWF.
LWF member churches around the world had 62.3 million members in 2003 and
61.7 million in 2001.
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Church representatives have outlined an extensive reshaping and streamlining of the activity of the World Council of Churches (WCC), to better equip the global Christian body for a "fast-changing" world context and new patterns of church life.
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The World Council of Churches (WCC) central committee reminded the Council's member churches that "with investment funds, they have an opportunity to use those funds responsibly in support of peaceful solutions" to the Israel/Palestine conflict.
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The World Council of Churches (WCC) central committee urged the
government of the United States "to immediately grant the legal rights accorded
to detainees" to "over 600 foreign nationals, mostly Muslims" held at the
Guantanamo Bay naval base "without due process and in total violation of the
norms and standards of international humanitarian and human rights law".
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