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The Most Revd Julio Murray, Bishop of Panama and former Archbishop of Central America, chairs the plenary session launching ...
To reduce the burden on vehicle manufacturers, the Council position propose that the circularity strategy must be established ...
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In June of the year 325, the first Ecumenical Council began in Nicaea, convened by the Emperor Constantine. Among the many topics discussed, which we will try to address briefly, two in particular ...
One of the council's lasting legacies is the Nicene Creed, a profession of faith still recited by Christians of all big denominations. Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I led a liturgy in Istanbul ...
Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I led a liturgy in Istanbul on Sunday, marking the 1,700th anniversary of Christianity's first ecumenical council. The first Council of Nicaea (located in modern ...
Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I leads the service of the Graveside Lamentation at the Patriarchal Church of St. George, in Istanbul, Turkey, Friday, April 18, 2025.
The anniversary of the council has recently been considered a symbol for what ecumenical dialogue could look like between Eastern and Western churches. “We see today that we really lost what we ...
Dr. Mott and 78 other churchmen, representing 130 denominations with 350,000,000 members in 21 nations, had gone to Utrecht to lay plans for a world council of churches.
Referring to the joint commemoration of the 1,700th anniversary of the first Ecumenical Council as “a pilgrimage”, Bartholomew suggested a new date for the new pope to visit Turkey, ...
The forthcoming Ecumenical Council, to be convened here by Pope John XXIII next October, will probably discuss ways of removing from the Jews the stigma of “slayers of God,” Augustin Cardinal ...