Saturday, April 25, 2020

Hosted by Pope Francis at the Vatican, some of the world’s most prominent religious leaders from the Buddhist, Hindu, Jewish, Muslim and Christian faiths came together to sign a declaration that commits the signatories to do everything in their power, within their faith communities, to free the people enslaved in the world by 2020.

https://humanityunited.org/faith-leaders-pledge-to-end-modern-slavery/

 Pope Francis received in audience the participants in the Conference of Secretaries of Christian World Communions, the international ecumenical organization that meets annually in October, each year in a different country, to improve mutual awareness. This ecumenical organisation is made up of the Anglican Communion, the World Baptist Alliance, the Disciples Ecumenical Consultative Council, the Ecumenical Patriarchate (Eastern Orthodox), General Conference of Seventh-Day Adventists, the International Old Catholic Bishops’ Conference, the World Lutheran Foundation, the Mennonite World Conference, the Moravian Church Worldwide Unity Board, the Patriarchate of Moscow (Eastern Orthodox), the Pentecostals, the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity (Catholic Church), the Reformed Ecumenical Council, the Salvation Army, the Friends World Committee for Consultation (Quakers), the World Convention of Churches of Christ, the World Evangelical Alliance and the World Methodist Council. A representative of the World Council of Churches is also usually present.
See more: http://evangelicalfocus.com/lifetech/1995/Pope_Francis_Our_enemies_teach_us_the_ecumenism_of_blood

 Two prominent Fort Worth-based Christian ministers led a delegation of Evangelical Christian leaders to Rome to meet privately with Pope Francis.

James and Betty Robison, co-hosts of the Life Today television program, and Kenneth Copeland, co-host of Believer's Voice of Victory, met the Roman Pontiff at the Vatican on Tuesday. The meeting lasted almost three hours and included a private luncheon with Pope Francis.

Mr. Robison told the Fort Worth Star Telegram, "This meeting was a miracle.... This is something God has done. God wants his arms around the world. And he wants Christians to put his arms around the world by working together."

Mr. Robison said he was impressed by Pope Francis' humility and courtesy to the visiting delegation of Evangelical Protestant Christian leaders.

https://www.charismanews.com/opinion/44555-why-did-copeland-robison-meet-with-pope-francis

 Pope Francis meets with Hispanic Jewish leaders from Argentina, Spain and the United States at the Vatican on Aug. 22 2019. (Courtesy of Hispanic Jewish Foundation)

In the spring of 1994, a distinguished group of Roman Catholics and evangelical Protestants issued a much-discussed statement, “Evangelicals and Catholics Together: The Christian Mission in the Third Millennium” (published in First Things Magazine, May 1994). That statement, commonly referred to as ECT, noted a growing “convergence and cooperation” between Evangelicals and Catholics in many public tasks, and affirmed agreement in basic articles of Christian faith while also underscoring the continuing existence of important differences. The signers promised to engage those differences in continuing conversations, and this has been done in meetings of noted theologians convened by Mr. Charles Colson and Father Richard John Neuhaus † (1936–2009) .

https://www.swordofthespirit.net/bulwark/november09p4.htm

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