This seminar, co-organized with the Income Monitoring and Development colleagues, aims to give staff of specialized ministries orientation about the ecumenical movement and to provide a possibility for ecumenical encounter with the WCC and other ecumenical organizations. The significance of the seminar is that it gives to new staff in specialized ministries the opportunity …
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  In the past decades the presence of migrant churches has profoundly changed the ecumenical landscape. However, the significance of this change for the ecumenical fellowship of local churches in neighbourhoods with ethnic minority churches has not yet been sufficiently explored. The seminar is intended as an evaluative analysis of the different formation initiatives churches …
View course details “Evaluating Ecumenical Formation for Migrant Church Leaders”

  This three week residential course is designed to enable participants to encounter each other in mutual respect, to learn together, and to challenge and overcome stereotypes. While fully respecting and affirming each particular faith identity, the overall question to be explored is: What can we, as people of faith, do to respond and to …
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   The ecumenical call to participate in a pilgrimage towards justice and peace will constitute an important milestone for the ecumenical fellowship after the WCC 10 th assembly in Busan. All churches are invited to reflect on how their own contexts are marked by experiences and structures of injustice and destructive conflict. By engaging the …
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    June 9-12, 2014 marks an exciting ecumenical event happening at Fairfield University in Fairfield, Connecticut.  Building upon the two pervious international Receptive Ecumenism conferences (2006 & 2009) and jointly organized by the Center for Catholic Studies at Fairfield Univeristy and the Centre for Catholic Studies at Durham University in the United Kingdom, this …
View course details “Receptive Ecumenism in International Perspective: Contextual Ecclesial Learning”

  Monday 23 – Saturday 28 June 2014 This course offers an introduction to the practice of a novel and transformative approach to ecumenism as commended by the Third Anglican Roman Catholic International Commission (ARCIC-III). ‘Receptive Ecumenism’ has already had a refreshing effect in several parts of the world. It asks: what can we learn …
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  THE ECUMENICAL INTITUTE, BOSSEY, SWITZERLAND   12-30 AUGUST 2013   Building an Interfaith Community- Summer Course 2013 This month long course is designed to enable participants to encounter each oth-er in mutual respect, to learn together, and to challenge and overcome stereo-types. While fully respecting and affirming each particular faith identity, the overall question …
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  July 14-20, 2013 – Six Weeks of Summer: Week 3 Behold the Beauty of the Lord: An Intensive Icon Painting Workshop with Brother James Koester, SSJE: This workshop will introduce participants to the spirituality of icons and the practice of icon painting. Sunday, July 14 – Saturday, July 20, 2013 – details » Living …
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  Sabeel’s 9th International Conference The evening of the 19th till the morning of the 25th, November 2013   “The Bible and the Israel-Palestine Conflict”   For more information please Email: [email protected]

Monday 17 – Sunday 24 June 2013 You are invited to undertake a journey to the heart of early Christianity in Rome and from there on a ‘virtual’ pilgrimage to Canterbury in the footsteps of St Augustine. What happened to Christianity in that Anglo-Saxon culture and its spread beyond? Perceptions of distance and closeness, separation …
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