Category - Protestant

German Protestant church becomes a Jewish synagogue

Ecumenical News International — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 02:28:27 +0100

For the first time in Germany, a Protestant church has been turned into a synagogue. The Rev Alfred Buss of the Evangelical Church of Westphalia, where it is located, said the new place of worship is a "house of hope".

Parents in Northern Ireland want integrated education

staff writers — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 03:06:40 +0100

Parents in Northern Ireland, which is seeking to recover from years of conflict and sectarianism, would like to see single-faith denominational schools replaced by integrated ones, a new survey has shown.

Call for European churches council to include Catholics

Stephen Brown — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 20:39:50 +0000

The French cleric who heads the main grouping of Anglican, Orthodox and Protestant Christian denominations in Europe has proposed the creation of a Council of European Churches that would also include the Roman Catholic Church.

Vatican visit to Cuba coincides with Castro stepping down

staff writers — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 22:32:54 +0000

As Cubans absorbed the news that communist leader Fidel Castro had stepped down, Foreign Minister Felipe Pérez Roque, prepared to welcome Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, the Vatican secretary of state, as he visits the country.

Make peace not division, say Jerusalem church heads

staff writers — Sun, 30 Dec 2007 10:16:56 +0000

The compassionate actions of human beings, not their claims against each other, reflect the will of God and the transforming power of Jesus the Prince of Peace, say the heads of the churches in Jerusalem this Christmastide.

Global Christian Forum is 'most diverse Christian gathering ever'

staff writers — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 12:55:00 +0000

A unique gathering of high level church leaders starting on Tuesday 6 November 2007 near Nairobi, Kenya, features the broadest range of Christian traditions ever represented at a global meeting, says its organisers.

Pentecostals deepen conversation with historic churches

staff writers — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 01:02:19 +0100

A second round of dialogue between World Council of Churches (WCC) members and Pentecostals has been inaugurated in Baar, Switzerland. A group of Protestant, Orthodox, Anglican and Pentecostal Christians met to continue work begun in 2005.

Churches urged to support migrant and other vulnerable minority communities

staff writers — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 09:03:58 +0100

Delegates at the Third European Ecumenical Assembly in Sibiu, Romania, concluded their weeklong gathering on 9 September 2007 with a call to the churches of Europe to deepen their support for migrants and other victimised minority groups.

European pan-church assembly seeks a fresh unity impetus

Ecumenical News International — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 01:01:45 +0100

Representatives of Europe's main Protestant, Catholic, Orthodox and Anglican churches say they hope a six-day ecumenical assembly in the Romanian city of Sibiu will give a new impetus to the movement for Christian unity - and enable them to meet today's challenges.

How the church should learn to eat itself

Simon Barrow — Wed, 08 Aug 2007 05:01:32 +0100

Sharing bread and wine is not just an odd church ritual, says Simon Barrow. It is an embodied symbol of a new world coming – one in which we need to be radically changed if we are going to be part of the solution not part of the problem.