Orthodoxy trivialized in WCC public relations stunt
November 12, 2009 by Fr. Johannes Jacobse · 35 Comments
From Brietbart: The World Council of Churches on Thursday called on churches around the world to ring their bells 350 times during the Copenhagen climate change summit on December 13 as a call to action on global warming. The leading council of Christian and Orthodox churches also invited places of worship for other faiths to [...]
Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew: Unity in God’s Time
October 7, 2009 by John Couretas · 4 Comments
From “Unity as Calling, Conversion and Mission,” the opening address of His All Holiness the Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew to the Plenary of the World Council of Churches’ Commission on Faith and Order event, “Called to be One Church” (Crete, Greece, October 7, 2009): We should not be frustrated by our human limitations, which unfortunately determine [...]
Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew to open meeting on Christian unity
September 28, 2009 by John Couretas · 5 Comments
News (Sept. 28, 2009) from the World Council of Churches: Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I will open the meeting of the World Council of Churches (WCC) Commission on Faith and Order, which will take place in Kolympari, Crete, Greece, from 7 to 14 October 2009. At this plenary meeting, the 120 members of the commission, which [...]
A Common Date for Pascha?
May 28, 2009 by John Couretas · 2 Comments
The Associated Press has a story out of the World Council of Churches about deliberations toward a common date for Pascha/Easter. The story was based, in part, on this release from the WCC. From the AP: Under the plan the unified Easter usually falls as it would under the Gregorian calendar used by Catholics and [...]
WCC’s ‘Homespun’ Economic Fallacy
November 19, 2008 by John Couretas · Leave a Comment
The World Council of Churches, which claims to speak for most Orthodox Churches around the globe, has formulated a number of proposals to reform the global financial system because of its inherent “injustice.” General Secretary Samuel Kobia sees the need for new transnational financial watchdog organizations that will “qualitatively regulate the growth in massive movements [...]
Bp. Hilarion: Russian Orthodox Must Stay in WCC
July 3, 2008 by John Couretas · Leave a Comment
Moscow, June 30, Interfax – Withdrawal of the Russian Orthodox Church from the World Council of Churches should weaken positions of Moscow Patriarchate in the inter-Orthodox dialogue, the representative of Russian Church in European international organizations believes. “This withdrawal may only weaken our positions today in defending the Church teaching which we consider traditional, which [...]
Bishop Hilarion Alfeyev: Liberal Christianity will not survive for a long time
February 16, 2008 by John Couretas · Leave a Comment
Address at the opening session of the Central Committee of the World Council of Churches, Geneva, 13 February 2008. Source: Europaica I would like to draw your attention to the danger of liberal Christianity. The liberalization of moral standards, initiated by some Protestant and Anglican communities several decades ago and developing with ever-increasing speed, has [...]
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