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Unis dans l’enseignement des apôtres, la communion fraternelle, la fraction du pain et la prière

(cf. Ac 2, 42)

Zusammen glauben, feiern, beten

(Apg 2,42)

One in the apostles’ teaching, fellowship, breaking of bread and prayer.

Acts 2 : 42 - 47 

Sermon for the service of installation of Rev. Dr Olav Fykse Tveit as general secretary of the World Council of Churches. Chapel of the Ecumenical Centre, Geneva, Tuesday 23 February 2010

The unexpected intuition to flash forth from the conference was the awareness that Christian disunity is destructive to the very mission of the Church, and the corresponding search for Christian unity began," said the Rev. John Gibaut, director of the Faith and Order Commission of the World Council of Churches. He was preaching on 18 January 2010 in a service at the WCC headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland, to mark the beginning of the annual Week of Prayer for Christian Unity, and as churches around the world prepare to mark the centenary of the 1910 conference.

This is the dream we carry through the world
that something fantastic will happen
that it has to happen
that time will open by itself

Valedictory sermon by World Council of Churches general secretary Rev. Dr Samuel Kobia at the Ecumenical Centre chapel on Monday, 7 December 2009.

In the spirit of the 2006 WCC Assembly's statement on ecclesiology, «Called to be the One Church», the 120 members of the Commission on Faith and Order, along with 37 guests, consultants and younger theologians gathered on the island of Crete in Greece, 7-13 October 2009.

Report of the WCC director of Faith and Order Canon Dr John Gibaut

Sermon by WCC general secretary Rev. Dr Samuel Kobia at the Opening Prayer of the Faith and Order Plenary Commission meeting, 7 October 2009, Crete, Greece.

Tanner discusses Faith and Order as a movement, as a Commission, as an agenda, as a method, and as a commitment to the future.

Brochure annuelle éditée et publiée conjointement par la Commission Foi et Constitution (COE) et le Conseil pontifical pour la promotion de l'unité des chrétiens (Eglise catholique romaine).