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Adopted by the WCC Executive Committee’s at its meeting in Reykjavik, Iceland 15-19 September 1986

The study guide My Neighbour's Faith and Mine: Theological discoveries through interfaith dialogue, was published by the WCC in 1986. Since then it has been translated into numerous languages and used widely.

(Suggested as a possible reading at prayers for peace on Hiroshima Day)

The Lima Liturgy is a Eucharistic (Holy Communion) service expressing, in one possible liturgical form, the ecclesiological convergence on the eucharist reached in the Faith and Order text Baptism, Eucharist and Ministry (BEM). It is so named because it was first used at the Faith and Order Plenary Commission meeting in Lima, Peru in 1982 - the meeting which approved BEM for transmission to the churches for official response.

This material was compiled by members of the Ecumenical Centre worship committee as an inspiration for congregations celebrating Time for Creation.

CHAPTER 1, Why this Study Was Prepared

CHAPTER 2, The scientific facts: an introduction

CHAPTER 4, Ethical Perspectives

CHAPTER 5, Human Rights, Responsibilities and HIV/AIDS

CHAPTER 6 Pastoral Care and Healing Community

The formation of the WCC, and the holding of its first assembly, did not answer a number of fundamental questions about the nature of the Council and its relationship to the member churches. That task was left to the WCC's central committee at its meeting in 1950, which adopted the "Toronto Statement".

Amsterdam Assembly 1948 Extracts from Report of Committee IV CONCERNS OF THE CHURCHES: 3.· THE CHRISTIAN APPROACH TO THE JEWS