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The annual meeting between Officials of the Pontifical Council for Inter-religious Dialogue (PCID) and the Office of Inter-religious Dialogue and Cooperation (IRDC) of the World Council of Churches (WCC) took place online on 19-20 January 2021.
As well as sharing updates on the activities carried out by the respective offices in 2020, mostly during the challenging months of the COVID-19 pandemic, the two sides also paid particular attention to effective ways of disseminating the document Serving a Wounded World in Interreligious Solidarity: A Christian Call to Reflection and Action During COVID-19 and Beyond, which was co-produced by the two offices in 2020.
This is the most recent of a series of joint publications that the two offices have produced during the course of more than forty years of ecumenical friendship and collaboration aimed at promoting interreligious dialogue together. Earlier documents focused on the following themes: Interreligious Marriage (1994-1997), Interreligious Prayer (1997-1998) African Religiosity (2000-2004), Christian Witness in a Multi-Religious World (2006-2011), and Education for Peace (2019).
The meeting held during the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity is a sign of the desire of both the Offices to grow in ecumenical communion as well while renewing the common commitment to intensify their collaborative works in the realm of interreligious dialogue by focusing on wider reception and implementation of the documents, in particular the latest document on Interreligious Solidarity.
