NEWS
News from our member churches and the wider ecumenical movement, with our monthly roundup and a library of stories from ecumenical bodies around the world.
Anglicans and Orthodox meet in Alexandria
The International Commission for Anglican-Orthodox Theological Dialogue met in Alexandria, Egypt, from 19 to 24 September as guests of the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Alexandria and All Africa.
A comic for Orthodox children
Eli and the Little Saints is a new monthly comic from the St Thomas Indian Orthodox Church in Germany, part of the Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church, which introduces children to Orthodox prayer and tradition through a fictional priest, Fr Eli.
Pope Leo receives a delegation from Constantinople
For the feast of Saints Peter and Paul, Pope Leo XIV received the delegation sent by Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew, keeping a long tradition of visits between the churches of Rome and Constantinople.
Faith and Order symposium in Romania
An international symposium in Sibiu, Romania, on ecclesiology, moral discernment and the mission of the church took up the work of last year’s Sixth World Conference on Faith and Order.
An Armenian homily for the Week of Prayer in Australia
The National Council of Churches in Australia announced that its annual Prayers for Christian Unity on 20 May would be held online, with a recorded homily by Bishop Vardan Navasardyan, Primate of the Armenian Church of Australia and New Zealand, and hymns from the choir of the Armenian Apostolic Church of the Holy Resurrection in Chatswood, Sydney.
A feast of creation for the whole church
More than 600 church leaders met online in March to explore the Feast of Creation, kept on 1 September or the Sunday after, which has its roots in the Eastern Orthodox calendar.
An Armenian reflection opens the Week of Prayer in Geneva
At a morning prayer at the Ecumenical Centre in Geneva on 19 January, Archimandrite Garegin Hambardzumyan of the Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin in Armenia reflected on this year’s Week of Prayer material, which draws on the heritage of St Nerses the Gracious, the twelfth-century catholicos and hymn writer.