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In 60th year WCC members seek revitalisation at Seoul meeting

Sixty years ago, 147 churches met in Amsterdam to bring into being the World Council of Churches, which is now the world's largest Christian grouping, reports Ecumenical News International.

Today, the organization exists in a world where the landscape for Christianity and other faiths is changing. At a service at the beginning of 2008 to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the WCC, Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomeos I, who is often considered the spiritual leader of Christians from the Orthodox tradition, said churches should be prepared to confront their differences honestly, and to examine them in the light of the scriptures.

A meeting called the "Seoul International Consultation on Revitalising the Ecumenical Movement" discussed such challenges in the South Korean capital between 13 and 15 November, and conferred about what the participants described as a crisis in the world as a whole, and also within the WCC.

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[12/25/2008]

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