Sentences with phrase «wcc meeting»

The government and most media celebrated the event — the first major WCC meeting ever held in a Muslim country — as testimony to the country's diversity and harmony.

The newspapers that reported on the WCC meeting were also discussing «Islam Hadhari» (roughly translated as «civilizational Islam»), the phrase the government has given to its vision of a modernized faith.

Not exact matches

They were brought into sharp contrast by the two «world evangelism» conferences sponsored just a few weeks apart in 1980: the meeting of the WCC Commission on World Mission and Evangelism in Melbourne in May, with the theme, «Your Kingdom Come,» and the Consultation on World Evangelization, sponsored by the Lausanne Committee, in Pattaya, Thailand, in June, with the theme «How Shall They Hear?»

(2) Later on WCC's Central Committee meeting 1997 approved a document called «Towards Common Witness» where proselytism is considered a «scandal and counterwitness».

From the Bali Declaration, Asian Regional Meeting on Violence Against Women held in Bali, Indonesia, organized by WCC, the Christian Conference of Asia and the Asian Women's Human Rights Commission, 1 - 6 August 1993.

The WCC Commission on Faith and Order, meeting at Bristol, England, in i967, said: «In working toward the time when the churches, in spite of their existing differences, could accept each other in eucharistic fellowship, the ecumenical movement also works toward the time when a true Ecumenical Council can become an event.»

Referring to the Bangkok Assembly of the WCC, The International Congress in Lausanne, the Bishops» Synod in Rome on evangelism in the modern world, and the Orthodox Consultation on Confessing Christ today, Thomas said that theological convergence in these meetings is striking in three points: Firstly, in their emphasis on the whole gospel for the whole man in the whole world; secondly, in their effort to relate evangelism to the identity of the church and to its growth, renewal and unity; and thirdly, in their affirmation of the realities of the contemporary world.

Consider, for example, the report of a participant in a weeklong meeting of directors of ecumenical institutes from around the world held in July 200S at Bossey, the study institute of the WCC.

Opponents of his ways in the WCC Central Committee could meet his scorn, or simply wonder what happened to them as he maneuvered parliamentarily or behind the scenes to thwart their schemes.

Abrecht (1984) is one of many ecumenical leaders who judge that no ecumenically organized reflection on theology and social ethics has matched the quality and thoroughness of the 1937 meeting of the WCC on «Church Community and State in Relation to the Economic Order» and its report of that title.

«After a century of intense theological activity, the churches in most places seem no closer to unity,» reports Alan Falconer, the director of the Faith and the Order Commission of the WCC to a major meeting in Tanzania.32 Konrad Raiser, the General Secretary of the WCC, has called on the main Christian traditions — the Orthodox, Roman Catholic, Protestant and Pentecostal churches — to start preparations in the year 2000 for «a universal church council to reconcile the main issues, including the authority of the Pope.»

The recognition that the WCC should develop structures to work not only with its member churches but also with the Christian world communions and other Christian communities outside its membership is embodied in a preliminary study document discussed in September at the WCC Central Committee meeting as part of its envisioning of the future of the WCC.

Leaders of the World Alliance of Reformed Churches were heavily engaged in the organizational activities leading up to the first meeting of the World Council of Churches (WCC) in

Responding to these concerns, the staff of the World Alliance of Reformed Churches has proposed that after the year 2000, the WCC and all the world communions hold their major world assemblies in the same place at the same time, doing their major theological study together but allowing time for each of the groups to have its own business meetings.

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