 (Athens) - It is time for confession, repentance and a deep conversion
in thinking and attitudes, the World Council of Churches (WCC) general secretary
Rev. Dr Samuel Kobia told participants at the Conference on World Mission and
Evangelism.
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 (Athens) - The archbishop of Athens and all of Greece, His Beatitude
Christodoulos, affirmed the need for ecumenical encounter and dialogue, as well
as for a new articulation of Christian identity and mission in order to face
contemporary challenges.
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More than 120
environmental experts from 30 European countries and from all Christian
traditions took part in the 5th Assembly of the European Christian Environmental
Network (ECEN) in Basel, Switzerland, from 5-8 May 2005.
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JERUSALEM (AP) The embattled leader of the Greek Orthodox Church in the Holy Land failed to show up for Good Friday services just hours after an Israeli newspaper reported it had obtained proof the church leased prime property in disputed east Jerusalem to Jewish investors for 198 years. |
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 Rev. Jean-Arnold de Clermont, President of the Conference of
European Churches (CEC), took part in the ceremonies commemorating the 90th
anniversary of the Armenian genocide in Erevan and Etchmiadzin, Armenia, on 24
April 2005.
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 (Mosnews.com, Moscow) Russian President Vladimir Putin and the head of the
Russian Orthodox Church, Patriarch Alexiy II, have congratulated newly
elected Pope Benedict XVI, RIA Novosti reports.
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 A
memorandum sent today by the World Council of Churches' (WCC) general secretary,
Rev. Dr Samuel Kobia, to the United Nations secretary-general, Kofi Annan,
shares WCC points of view on issues dealt with in Annan's report on reforming
the UN.
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CHICAGO (ELCA) -- With
Pope Benedict XVI's election, Christians should pray that God "may bless,
strengthen and guide him as a heavy mantle of responsibility is now being put
upon him," said the Rev. Mark S. Hanson, presiding bishop of the Evangelical
Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) and president of the Lutheran World
Federation (LWF), and the Rev. Ishmael Noko, LWF general secretary, in a
joint statement issued April 19.
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In congratulating the newly-elected pope, World
Council of Churches (WCC) general secretary Rev. Dr Samuel Kobia prayed for
"renewed commitment" to "ecumenical openess" and "a dialogue of
conversion".
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