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In early 2001, the WCC Public Information Team asked knowledgeable representatives of the Orthodox, Roman Catholic and Protestant traditions to give a brief outline of their thinking on a common date for Easter. The series began with this article by the Rev. Dr Dagmar Heller, executive secretary for Mission and Ecumenical Relations in North Baden, Evangelical Church in Baden, Germany. As a WCC staff member with the "Faith and Order" team, she had been involved in organizing and accompanying the discussion process on a common date for Easter.

Un hito en los esfuerzos para establecer una fecha común de la Pascua fue la consulta de Alepo (Siria), en marzo de 1997, organizada conjuntamente por el CMI y el Consejo de Iglesias del Oriente Medio. ¿En qué medida las iglesias han atendido a la propuesta de Alepo? En 2001, el Equipo de Información del CMI ha invitado a representantes de las tradiciones ortodoxa y católica romana, así como a personalidades protestantes, a resumir brevemente sus reflexiones sobre una fecha común para Pascua. La serie comienza con un artículo de la pastora Dagmar Heller, secretaria ejecutiva de Misión y Relaciones Ecuménicas en Baden del Norte, en la Iglesia Evangélica de Baden (Alemania). La Rev. Heller era, hasta hace poco antes, miembro del Equipo de Fe y Constitución del CMI, y estaba encargada de la organización y el seguimiento del proceso de estudio de la cuestión de la fecha común de Pascua.

In early 2001, the WCC Public Information Team asked knowledgeable representatives of the Orthodox, Roman Catholic and Protestant traditions to give a brief outline of their thinking on a common date for Easter. Monsignor John A. Radano of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity wrote about "Catholic hopes of a common date for Easter".

In early 2001, the WCC Public Information Team asked knowledgeable representatives of the Orthodox, Roman Catholic and Protestant traditions to give a brief outline of their thinking on a common date for Easter. Metropolitan Bishoy of Damiette of the Coptic Orthodox Church, Egypt, contributed from the viewpoint of the Oriental Orthodox tradition.

In early 2001, the WCC Public Information Team asked knowledgeable representatives of the Orthodox, Roman Catholic and Protestant traditions to give a brief outline of their thinking on a common date for Easter. Metropolitan Ambrosius of Oulu tells of the experiences of an Orthodox minority church in a Protestant country; in Finland "Orthodox and Lutherans have been experiencing the power of the Resurrection at the common date of Easter ever since the early 1920s".

Report of the Ecumenical Consultation held in Kyoto, Japan, 26 February - 3 March 2001.

Dumaguete City, Philippines
10-14 February 2001
(The following is a slightly abridged version of the report written by the consultation participants.)

Second report by the Policy Reference Committee at the WCC Central Committee meeting in Potsdam, 2001.

Churches seeking reconciliation and peace
Document No. PR II 1rev2

Toward an ecumenical ethical approach
Document No. PI 2rev

Liturgy of a service held in the Gedächtniskirche of Berlin, Germany, on 4 February 2001 to launch the Decade to Overcome Violence.

WCC programme on Interreligious dialogue and cooperation

Those wishing to do bible studies on the week of prayer theme can use as a basis the biblical texts and reflections given in the "eight days". Each day the discussions can lead to a closing period of intercessory prayer.

At the centre of the worship service proposed for the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity 2001 lies the theme for the week as chosen from John 14: 6: "I am the way, and the truth, and the life".

Thanks to the great arc of the Carpathian Mountains, the Danube and the Black Sea, Romania is easy to find on any map. Culturally speaking it lies at the cross-roads between eastern and western Europe. Ninety-nine percent of its population of just over 22 million people call themselves Christian. As regards other communities of faith, there are 9,000 Jews and 56,000 Muslims. A few thousand people declare themselves to be atheists or of no faith.

This document has been published by the World Council of Churches and other partners, including Islamic organisations and specialised journals. It is the fruit of a Muslim-Christian meeting held in Amersfoort, Netherlands in November 2000. Convened by the World Council of Churches, it took stock of the various Christian-Muslim dialogue initiatives of this organisation since 1991. During the last nine years, Christian and Muslim religious leaders, educators and activists have discussed the thorny and sometimes divisive issues of religion, law and society, human rights, religious freedom, community rights, mission and da'wa and communal tensions. This document draws largely on their questions, reflections and conclusions.