Catholics join new ecumenical movement.(News)

From: The Christian Century | Date: December 14, 2004 | Copyright information

THE U.S. CATHOLIC bishops have given a key blessing to a groundbreaking effort to bring Catholics, evangelical and mainline Protestants and the Orthodox around a common table for the first time.

The bishops voted 151-73 at their fall meeting last month in Washington, D.C., to become full partners in Christian Churches Together in the USA, an ecumenical effort that began three years ago to allow most branches of American Christianity to "build bridges" and eventually spea...

Read all of this article with a FREE trial to HighBeam Research

Related newspaper, magazine, and journal articles from HighBeam Research

HOLY SEASON STARTS FOR MANY CHRISTIAN CHURCHES.(LOCAL)
Wisconsin State Journal (Madison, WI) ; Byline: William R. Wineke Today is Ash Wednesday, a holy day that marks the beginning of Lent in many Christian churches. In churches that observe Ash Wednesday, parishioners will attend services today and will have their foreheads marked with ashes created when palm fronds used a year ago in Palm
Christian churches in Dahomey-Benin; a study of their socio-political role.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
Reference & Research Book News ; ... and draws on his personal observations as well as interviews and conversations, academic literature, and other sources to examine of role of Christian churches in the origin of the modern state of Benin. ([c]20072005 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR)
Rabin rejects Christian churches' call for internationalguarantees for Jerusalem
Jerusalem Post ; HAIM SHAPIRO Jerusalem Post 12-29-1994 PRIME Minister Yitzhak Rabin yesterday firmly rejected a call by the heads of the Christian churches in Jerusalem for a special status for the holy city, guaranteed by the international community. Rabin, who also serves as minister for religious affairs, was
Pope encourages Christian churches to work for unity. (World).(Brief Article)
National Catholic Reporter ; VATICAN CITY: In the face of ecumenical trials and tensions, Christian churches need to work harder for full unity and mutual forgiveness, Pope John Paul II said at the start of the annual Week of Prayer for Christian Unity. The pope also encouraged Vatican officials to augment practical
Forty-six Christian churches asked to consider unity plan. (Nation).
National Catholic Reporter ; ... vision for the most inclusive Christian organization ever in the United States, said a Feb. 28 news release from the U.S. bishops' conference. The news release outlined the proposal and quoted from supporters, including Baltimore Cardinal William ...
CHRISTIAN CHURCHES RESPOND TO JESUS' WORDS.(Editorial)(Letter to the Editor)(Editorial)
The Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY) ; Byline: Nick La Rose To the Editor: In her letter Dec. 19, Helen Bates states that many Christian denominations have distorted Jesus' actual message. First of all, what is the message? It was to Love one another as I have loved you, and to have compassionate care for the less fortunate of the
Christian churches together. (Unity).(gathering of Christian organizations to form Christian Churches Together in the USA )
Sojourners Magazine ; When representatives of 40 denominations, communions, and Christian organizations gathered in late January at Fuller Seminary in Pasadena, California, no one knew for sure the outcome. Eighteen months earlier a nucleus of this group had met outside of Baltimore to begin asking whether it was
2 new Christian churches are going up in Beijing
Deseret News (Salt Lake City) ; ... can worship. Beijing's few churches are old and cramped; many are dilapidated. "No matter who builds the new ones, it is good news for believers because they have more places to go," said Zhao Donghua, head of the religion department at Peking University ...
An expanded table. (The Christian Century).(Christian Churches Together)(Brief Article)
The Christian Century ; THE ECUMENICAL TABLES in the U.S. are too small. None is large enough to encompass the full diversity of Christian life in this country. The National Council of Churches includes 36 Protestant and Orthodox bodies, but the member churches account for only one-third of U.S. Christians. Glaringly
Militants bomb 2 Christian churches in Mosul Strikes on ethnicities and religions rise
International Herald Tribune ; Robert F. Worth International Herald Tribune 12-08-2004 Militants bombed two Christian churches in the northern city of Mosul on Tuesday, in the latest of a string of attacks on religious and ethnic groups. No one appears to have been killed in the attacks, witnesses said. The bombings came as