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Report of a consultation for and with peace educations, St Clement, Belfast, Northern Ireland, 18-24 June 2001.

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".

Au centre même de la célébration oecuménique proposée pour la Semaine de prière pour l’unité des chrétiens 2001 se trouve le thème choisi pour cette année : Je suis le chemin et la vérité et la vie (Jn 14, 6).

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.

Cette description de la situation oecuménique en Roumanie est présentée par l'Association oecuménique des Eglises AIDRom (Bucarest) avec l’approbation de son président, Son Excellence Nifon (Eglise orthodoxe roumaine) et de son vice-président, l’Evêque Christoph Klein (Eglise évangélique de la confession d’Augsbourg de Roumanie et en consultation avec des représentatives de l’Eglise catholique romaine). Les informations concernant les églises et la vie oecuménique en Roumanie ont été préparées à la demande du Conseil oecuménique des Eglises pour être publiées dans la brochure pour la Semaine de prière pour l’unité des chrétiens 2001.

World Council of Churches / Middle East Council of Churches Consultation

Aleppo, Syria

March 5 - 10, 1997

This text is the fruit of the joint study programme on Ecclesiology and Ethics conducted by Faith and Order and the WCC's Justice, Peace and Creation team. The results of meetings in Rønde, Denmark; Jerusalem, Israel; and Johannesburg, South Africa, they explore how the churches are called to be a community of ethical reflection - and engagement - in today's world.

The "Letter to the Churches" and report from the first consultation (held at Ditchingham, England) in Faith and Order's current study programme on worship in relation to Christian unity. Drawing on the resources of the liturgical renewal movement, and produced together with leading liturgists, this text focuses on the common structure of Christian worship, on issues of inculturation in worship, and on how, through worship, churches are already expressing their unity in Christ.