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US church leader joins Cuban officials at ecumenical gathering

The ecumenical movement must take the side of the poor and excluded if its preaching is to stay rooted in the Gospel, a leader of the biggest grouping of Latin American churches has told a Cuban gathering, reports Ecumenical News International.

The Rev. Nilton Giese, general secretary of the Latin American church council, made up of 150 mainly Protestant churches from the region, was speaking at a gathering that included U.S. church officials and some key members of Cuba's communist party.

"To forget the poor is a constant danger for the church and for the world," Giese, a Lutheran from Brazil who heads CLAI, said at the start of the commemoration of the 80th anniversary of the 1929 Hispanic American Evangelistic Congress being held in Matanzas, Cuba. "For the ecumenical movement, the evangelical option for the poor and excluded is a matter of principle."

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[06/27/2009]

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