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Olá! Há tempos venho pensando que a questão ecológica será a motivação para juntar todos os povos. Quem poderia ser contra esta união, quem poderia dizer que tal luta não vem de Deus? E ser contra se igualará a um terrorista; alguém contra o próprio Deus, criador. O artigo a seguir nos dá uma idéia como isto pode estar se iniciando. Boa leitura. Postado em http://g1.globo.com/Noticias/Ciencia/0,,MUL27957-5603-46,00.html.
27/04/2007 - 13h13 - Atualizado em 27/04/2007 - 17h20
Deus quer luta contra aquecimento, diz Igreja
Conferência organizada pelo Vaticano pede união religiosa contra ameaças ambientais. Bispo sugere que papa escreva encíclica sobre o 'futuro da criação'.
Deus deseja que os fiéis contribuam para a preservação da natureza.
Essa é a mensagem divulgada por uma conferência sobre as mudanças climáticas realizada pelo Vaticano. O evento é o indício mais recente de como os grupos religiosos do mundo todo se preocupam cada vez mais com o destino do planeta.
Vindos de 20 países, cientistas, ministros do Meio Ambiente e líderes de várias religiões reuniram-se durante dois dias para discutir as implicações do aquecimento global e do desenvolvimento econômico.
Enquanto os cientistas falavam sobre a dinâmica dos gases do efeito estufa, padrões de temperatura, florestas tropicais e emissões de poluentes, os homens e mulheres da religião discutiam os aspectos morais e teológicos da proteção ambiental.
A conferência, organizada pelo Conselho para a Justiça e a Paz, um órgão do Vaticano, revela-se como o movimento de mais profundo envolvimento da Igreja Católica com um dos assuntos mais debatidos dos dias atuais.
"As mudanças climáticas são um dos sinais de uma era na qual a Igreja Católica é afetada como uma organização global. A Igreja Católica precisa adotar uma posição sobre essa questão atual e urgente", disse o bispo Bernd Uhl, de Friburgo (Alemanha).
Nos últimos anos, as maiores religiões do mundo adotaram posturas mais "verdes" em meio à corrida para salvar o mundo, o qual, segundo pregam, está sob os cuidados do homem e precisa ser protegido para as futuras gerações.
No último ano, algumas igrejas evangélicas dos EUA -- grupos conservadores que se aliaram ao presidente norte-americano, George W. Bush -- romperam com Washington para defender a adoção de medidas urgentes na proteção ao ambiente.
Segundo Uhl, chegou o momento de a Igreja Católica divulgar uma encíclica, o tipo mais importante de texto papal, sobre o que chamou de o "futuro da criação".
O bispo Christopher Toohey, da Austrália, disse que os devotos deveriam "ter a coragem e a motivação para, pela graça de Deus, fazer o que precisam fazer a fim de proteger este planeta-jardim".
Além da própria notícia recebida pelo sistema de alerta do GOOGLE, muito interessante é o site que a publica: ECUMENICAL NEWS INTERNATIONA http://www.eni.ch.
Patrocinadores do site:World Council of Churches, Lutheran World Federation, World Alliance of Reformed Churches e Conference of European Churches
Pope, Ecumenical Patriarch unite in Istanbul on 'Christian Europe'
Luigi Sandri Istanbul (ENI). Pope Benedict XVI has prayed with the Ecumenical Patriarch, Bartholomeos I, who is often referred to as the spiritual leader of the world's Orthodox Christians, making a step to healing a 1000 year rift, which the pontiff said obstructs the proclamation of the Gospel.
"The divisions which exist among Christians are a scandal to the world and an obstacle to the proclamation of the Gospel," said Benedict at a service on 30 November with Bartholomeos. They met in the Church of St George on the feast of St Andrew, the apostle and brother of St Peter who preached after the death of Jesus in Constantinople, which is now Istanbul.
Benedict and Bartholomeos signed a joint declaration in which both noted the need to "preserve Christian roots" in European culture while remaining "open to other religions and their cultural contributions".
In his homily, Bartholomeos said, "We confess in sorrow that we are not yet able to celebrate the holy sacraments in unity."
The leader of the world's 1.2 billion Roman Catholics has said his four day trip to Turkey is aimed at resuming the process to full unity between the two oldest paths for Christianity, which remained divided, particularly over the degree of papal authority.
The Ecumenical Patriarch has a special role among Orthodox bishops, though other Orthodox churches note his title in Latin is "primus inter pares" which means first among equals.
Part of their declaration was posted on the Web site of the Ecumenical Patriarachate (www.patriarchate.org/). In it, the Pope and Bartholomeos said, "We evaluated positively the path towards the shaping of the European Union. The key players in this huge endeavour will surely take into account all ... non-negotiable rights, especially religious freedom, which is proof and assurance of respect for all other freedoms."
They said further: "In every initiative for union, minorities, with their cultural rights and religious distinctiveness, should be protected. In Europe, both Orthodox Christians and Roman Catholics, while remaining open to other religions and their contribution to culture, should unite their efforts to safeguard Christian roots, traditions and values, in order to preserve respect for history and to also contribute to the culture of a future Europe."
Thousands of police were on the streets of Istanbul during the visit of the Pope who also visited 1500-year-old Haghia Sophia, a domed building that once was a centre of Christianity. It was converted to a mosque in the 15th century during the Ottoman Empire, which lasted from 1299 to 1923. The Haghia Sophia is now a museum.
Methodists join Catholic-Lutheran statement on justification
Seoul, Jul. 27 (CWNews.com) - The World Methodist Council has given its approval to a theological statement on the doctrine of justification-- a statement already agreed upon by Catholic and Lutheran leaders.
At a general assembly in Seoul, South Korea, the World Methodist Council added its approval to a statement produced in 1999 by the Vatican and the World Lutheran Federation. The Methodist general assembly, drawing together representatives of 76 different Methodist communities worldwide, is held every 5 years.
Cardinal Walter Kasper (bio - news), who attended the Methodists' meeting, characterized the agreement on justification as "historic." The president of the Pontifical Council for Christian Unity noted that debates about justification had been among the most important theological disputes of the Reformation. The resolution of those disputes, he said, must be recognized as "a gift from God," and "one of the principal successes of ecumenical dialogue."
George Freeman, the secretary general of the World Methodist Council, agreed that the joint statement is a major step forward, and "opens the door to new ecumenical ties." Ishmael Noko, secretary general of the World Lutheran Federation-- who had already signed the document-- said that with the Methodists having joined in the statement, other Christian communities of the Reformed tradition should also consider their participation. Speaking to a Vatican Radio audience, Cardinal Kasper observed that the agreement is the fruit of "four decades of gradual steps" since Vatican II. At the close of the Council, Pope Paul VI had addressed ecumenical observers, saying that the differences among Christians should be resolved "slowly, gradually, loyally, generously."
The Methodist movement, begun in the 18th century by John Wesley as a reform effort within the Anglican communion, today claims 30 million believers. The World Methodist Council was established in 1881, and opened official dialogue with the Catholic Church in 1967.
Another post-conciliar dicastery, this is the ecumenical arm of the Church, and its members work for the restoration of unity among Christians. It is also responsible for anything touching on relations between the Church and the Jewish religion. Its president is the controversial Cardinal Walter Kasper, a former student of both Cardinal Ratzinger and the dissident priest, Hans Küng.
The World Council of Churches ended its ninth Assembly Thursday, after approving significant changes in its constitution and priorities, and re-dedicating itself to the Christian ecumenical movement.
Saturday, Feb. 25, 2006 Posted: 10:12:21AM EST
The World Council of Churches ended its ninth Assembly Thursday, after approving significant changes in its constitution and priorities, and re-dedicating itself to the Christian ecumenical movement.
“This Assembly has affirmed the vitality of the ecumenical movement and the commitment of the churches to the ecumenical vision and goal of unity, and to strive for a more just and peaceful world,” said WCC general secretary Rev. Dr Samuel Kobia.
Over 4,000 delegates, visitors and observers participated in the Assembly, which met from Feb. 14-23 in Porto Alegre, Brazil. The Assembly marked the first to be held in Latin America since the Council was created in 1948.
Some of the highlights of the Assembly included the adoption of a revised constitutions, the move toward Christian unity, and a renewed dedication to youth.
At that light, the Assembly endorsed new proposals to create a special body that would represent young adults – under 30 years of age – in the decision-making and leadership process for the Council.
Delegates to the assembly also took action on “issues of international concern,” including globalization, counter-terrorism and human rights, nuclear disarmament, the scarcity of water, and the reform of the United Nations.>
@comentário: neste link vc encontra a agenda do Papa em busca do Ecumenismo. Em 2006 o Papa promoverá eventos com as igrejas: Católica-Ortodoxa, Anglicana, Luterana, Metodista e Pentecostal. Existem comissões já formadas com cada uma destas igrejas em busca de pontos teológicos que as unam. Este é o trecho final da reportagem, elucidando o espírito dessas reuniões:
"Addressing the cardinals who elected him, Pope Benedict had said that in the search for Christian unity, "concrete gestures that enter hearts and stir consciences are essential, inspiring in everyone that inner conversion that is the prerequisite for all ecumenical progress."
@sumário: aproveitando sua visita aos EUA, o Patriarca da Igreja Católica Ortoxa, anunciou a visita do Papa Benedito XVI à Turquia, provavelmente ainda nesta ano. Este patriarca ortodoxo lidera 300 milhões de católicos ortodoxos, espalhado pelo mundo.
Orthodox Patriarch leads US Epiphany celebration Fri Jan 6, 2006 3:09 PM ET
By Robert Green
ST. PETERSBURG, Florida (Reuters) - The head of the world's 300 million Orthodox Christians, Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew, on Friday led U.S. celebrations of Epiphany by ritually throwing a cross into the Gulf of Mexico.
The cross was grabbed within seconds by James Vasilaros, one of 53 teenaged boys waiting to retrieve it in the highlight of an annual ritual that draws tens of thousands to the Florida town of Tarpon Springs, a few miles northwest of Tampa.
Epiphany in some eastern churches commemorates the baptism of Jesus in the Jordan River, while in western churches it marks the visit of the three kings to the Christ child.
It was Bartholomew's first visit to Tarpon Springs, a majority of whose 23,000 residents are descendants of Greek immigrants who came here in the 1880s to start a sponge diving industry.
"Never forget this day," the Patriarch told the young divers as he blessed them.
Bartholomew had earlier used his visit to the United States to announce that Pope Benedict XVI would officially visit the Patriarchate in Turkey in 2006 as both religious leaders strive to build bridges between the Catholic and Orthodox Churches.
The Pope missed a liturgy in Istanbul last year marking St. Andrew's day after Turkish authorities, apparently believing that Bartholomew had overreached himself by inviting the pontiff, said the Pope should visit in 2006 instead.
"We are going to restart our dialogue on an international level with the Roman Catholic Church," the Patriarch told reporters on Thursday in Greek. "We are also glad to announce that Pope Benedict will officially visit the Patriarchate in 2006," he said.
The Vatican had previously accepted Ankara's invitation but Bartholomew's comments indicated more certainty that a visit would occur this year.
RESENHA: duas grandes organizações em prol do ecumenismo se reunirão dia 17 próximo, para celebrar 40 anos de ecumenismo e diálogo entre o protestantismo e o catolicismo. O artigo traz um pequeno histórico das relações destas duas igreja, à partir de 1965 quando se dá início ao diálogo, proporcionado pelo Concílio Vaticano II.
WCC, Catholic Church to Address Past, Present, Future of Ecumenism
The World Council of Churches and the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity (PCPCU) will celebrate 40 years of ecumenism and dialogue with a public event at the Ecumenical Center in Geneva next Thursday.
Thursday, Nov. 10, 2005 Posted: 7:23:15AM EST
The World Council of Churches and the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity (PCPCU) will celebrate 40 years of ecumenism and dialogue with a public event at the Ecumenical Center in Geneva next Thursday.
The Rev. Dr Samuel Kobia, general secretary of the largest Protestant council in the world, will open the Nov. 17 event with a brief welcome to the guests. Meanwhile, Archbishop Mario Conti, the co-moderator of the Joint Working Group (JWG) between the two Christian faiths, will introduce the developments and goals of the ecumenical spirit that guided his work.
Ecumenical dialogue between the two churches began in 1965, following the Second Vatican Council. Vatican II, as it is widely known, established various sectors to dialogue with large Protestant bodies, such as the WCC and the Lutheran World Federation; earlier this week LWF representatives met with Pope Benedict XVI to affirm the ecumenical spirit.
Relations between the Roman Catholic Church (RCC) and the Protestant Church are still strained in many ways, especially in Latin America where large Pentecostal revivals are taking place in what were historically Roman Catholic countries. The two churches also continue to differ on critical issues of theology – such as justification, ecclesiology and Christology.
However, the relationship has markedly improved in the past four decades, largely through the works of the Joint Working Group.
During their address, speakers from the JWG will spell out the new challenges the two churches face in order to take ecumenism to the next step, and analyze what the JWG can contribute to the growth of ecumenism in decades to come. >
Elaine SpencerHowever, the relationship has markedly improved in the past four decades, largely through the works of the Joint Working Group.
During their address, speakers from the JWG will spell out the new challenges the two churches face in order to take ecumenism to the next step, and analyze what the JWG can contribute to the growth of ecumenism in decades to come.
EVANGÉLICOS E JUDEUS - post aljazeerah.com 23.10.05
Comentário: interessante a notícia em si, lançamento de tradicional jornal de Jerusalém numa edição cristã, mas mais interessante são os comentários do noticiário Al-Jazeerah, reconhecidamente anti-judaico e anti-ocidente. Explica o texto, com propriedade, a expectativa dos cristãos fundamentalistas de verem o estado de Israel convertido como pré-requisito para a Segunda Vinda de Cristo. Segue artigo e link do original.
Jerusalem Post Forms Alliance With US Evangelical Christians
Barbara Ferguson, Arab News
WASHINGTON, 23 October 2005 —
The uneasy alliance between the Zionist state and America’s fundamentalist right has found a common goal. Starting early next year, Israel’s oldest English-language paper, the Jerusalem Post, will launch a Christian edition.
The Post, a widely respected paper until it was bought and the contents were changed from objective to right-wing subjective by its former owner Conrad Black, is now seeking to bolster its North American circulation by building on the tight relationship between the Israeli right and Christian evangelicals.
Bush-backing fundamentalists are among Ariel Sharon’s best friends. A few years ago, Sharon was taped by Haaretz newspaper assuring a colleague who had asked him: “Why are you working with them? Don’t you know that these Christian evangelicals want us to convert at the Second Coming?”
“Yes,” Sharon said into a live mike. “We’ll worry about that then. We need them now.”
The belief among Christian fundamentalists is that the revival of the Israeli state is a precursor to the Second Coming. For this to happen, the Christian fundamentalists want Jews to recognize the First Coming and save themselves from eternal damnation. Israel passed laws against that kind of evangelizing decades ago, but these days the Jerusalem Post, like the government, appears less concerned with the hereafter than the here and now.
The paper is also said to be in financial straits. Another reason, says the British Guardian newspaper, as to why it is getting together with the International Christian Embassy (ICE) in Jerusalem — an organization that says it exists to “comfort Zion” and “declare the purpose of God to the Jewish people” — to publish a monthly Christian edition from January principally aimed at American fundamentalists.
“The content is going to be jointly put together by the Jerusalem Post and the International Christian Embassy,” the Post’s editor, British-born David Horowitz, told the Guardian. “It’ll be things like archaeology and tourism and ideological arguments and dilemmas and so on. Obviously, when your predominant mindset is a Jewish audience there are different stresses that go into providing content, whereas if you’re doing it for a Christian audience there are going to be very different emphases and different focuses.”
The paper’s sharp turn to the right surprised some of its own readers last year by calling for the assassination of Yaser Arafat. Its columnists spend a good deal of time insisting that there never was a country called Palestine, and therefore there never should be one.
But Horowitz admits that an overt relationship with the evangelists requires some caution. “The International Christian Embassy has been operating in Israel for many years and they are very aware of the framework. There are laws in Israel against giving inducement to people to convert and that organization has operated within the framework to the satisfaction of the Israeli government. That is actually very important to me.”
The Israeli government has found allies for their Likud causes. The ICE today launches a campaign against the growing support within the Presbyterian and other churches to divest from Israel in protest at the Israeli occupation of the Palestinian territories.
The seventh day of the week should be a family affair, says the committee (imagepoint)
Comentário: vale dar uma olhada neste link e acompanhar as notícias. Trata-se de um plebiscito (os suíços adoram plebiscitos) sobre maior liberalidade para abertura de lojas aos domingos nas estações de trens (outra paixão suíça). Percebam a união de católicos e protestantes em torno da proibição.
An ecumenical movement has come out against Sunday shopping in train stations and airports, the subject of a nationwide vote on November 27.
Catholics and Protestants alike say the measure, if approved, would sound the death knell for family life and would pave the way for extending opening hours across the country.
Key Facts
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In January a coalition of trade unions, consumer organisations, shopkeepers and churches handed in more than 80,000 signatures to the federal authorities to try to overturn a decision by parliament last September to ease rules on Sunday trading.
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At present, only seven railway stations offer Sunday shopping.
Top Leaders of Faith-Based Groups to Join TIME Global Health Summit
Saturday, Oct. 22, 2005 Posted: 12:12:03PM EST
Two dozen leaders from the faith-based community will be among the more than 300 elite leaders from differing fields of health, government, and civic organizations that will brainstorm together next month to solve world health crises. Hosted by TIME magazine and supported by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the TIME Global Health Summit in New York City on Nov. 1-3, is the first one to convene top figures in medicine, government, business, public policy and the arts to develop solutions to ten health crises.
Among the two dozen faith-based leaders to be present at the health summit are Ted Haggard, president of the National Evangelical Association; John McCullough, executive director of Church World Service; John Galbraith, president and CEO of the Catholic Medical Mission Board; Bishop Joao Somane Machado, leader of the United Methodist Church in Mozambique; and Rick Warren, pastor of Saddleback Church and author of The Purpose-Driven Life.
"In the developing world, faith-based organizations have played a major role," said senior health writer for TIME, Christine Gorman. "It doesn't mean that the faith-based groups have all of the answers, but if you don't include them, you're not going to get where you want to go."
Top World Leaders Plan Billion Soul Campaign for Christ
The Billion Soul Campaign, which began as a tribute to the late Dr. Bill Bright, has conjoined more than 80 denominations, fellowships and ministries who aim reach one billion souls for Christ and plant five million new churches.
Friday, Aug. 12, 2005 Posted: 8:34:22AM EST
Reaching one billion souls for Christ is no longer too big a dream, according to a coalition of international Christian leaders. Next month, the supporters of the Billion Soul Campaign, will come closer to fulfilling that dream with the first-ever Global Church Planting Congress.
"This is the largest global thrust in Church history," said John Maxwell, chair of the Global Pastors Network that is organizing the effort.
Hundreds of leaders representing 80 international ministries - including the Global Pastors Network, Youth With a Mission, Campus Crusade for Christ, God.tv, Assemblies of God, and the Southern Baptist Convention - will take part in the Global Congress, slated for Sept. 19-21 in Dallas, Texas.
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Dr. Bright is seen by some as the world's most influential evangelist since Apostle Paul. Through written, spoken and filmed words, he helped lead millions to Christ and nurtured a single campus evangelistic effort into the largest ministry of the world.
After Dr. Bright died in 2003, a leadership team set-out to fulfill his dream of reaching one billion for Christ with a global conference call in Aug. 2004. At a subsequent meeting in December, some 65 world leaders adopted the "Bill Bright Initiative" at the CCCi headquarters in Orlando, Fla.
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Organizers expect about 350 of the top church planters from around the world to gather in Dallas, Texas, for the first of five scheduled Congresses.
Other Congresses are tentatively planned for Singapore, London, Johannesburg and Buenos Aires.
Through these congresses, leaders from the Coalition hope to impact the world in the most meaningful way: finding one billion souls for Christ.
WCC General Secretary Meets Pope Benedict, Stresses Unity
Pope Benedict XVI met Thursday with Rev. Dr Samuel Kobia, the leader of the World Council of Churches, in an effort to improve relations between the Roman Catholic and Protestant churches.
Since the beginning of his tenure, the newly elected pope made reaching out to other Christians a “fundamental commitment” of his papacy.
That commitment was echoed in a statement released after the meeting, where Benedict said he is “eager to continue cooperation” with the WCC.
"The commitment of the Catholic Church to the search for Christian unity is irreversible," Benedict said.
Kobia, agreed, saying faith "is more effective and vibrant when it is lived out together with our brothers and sisters in Christ."
Kobia also invited the Pope to the WCC’s headquarters in Geneva "as yet one more concrete step in our long journey towards visible unity".
One of the main points emphasized during the meeting was in regard to the understanding of the ecclesiology. Kobia, in an interview with the AP, explained that some Protestant members of the WCC were “vexed” by a 2000 document from the Vatican’s Congregation for the Doctrine of Faith, which framed the role of the Catholic Church in human salvation in an exclusive matter.
The document, “Dominus Iesus,” which the pope signed and headed when he was a cardinal, suggested that non-Catholic “ecclesiastical communities” were “not churches in a proper sense.
“There are many Protestant churches that are members of the WCC and are concerned that they are defined as 'ecclesiastic communities' and not full churches," Kobia said to AP in an interview prior to the meeting.
He said he wasn't looking for Benedict to renounce the 2000 document, but said he hoped the two sides could "move beyond it."
"I would seek understanding that in order to progress on unity, it would be important to speak another language, moving beyond what has been said," he said.
During his meeting with the Pope, Kobia mentioned the issue as one of the fundamental questions of unity.
"Responses to these fundamental ecclesiological questions will certainly affect whether or not our member churches recognize each other's baptism, as well as their ability or inability to recognize one another as churches," Kobia said.
The WCC "would like to encourage dialogue on these fundamental questions," Kobia told the pope, "in our relationships with all our ecumenical partners".
Benedict’s prepared remarks, however, made no mention of the issue.
Kobia's delegation included Bishop Eberhardt Renz from the Evangelical Church in Germany and Archbishop Makarios of Kenya and Irinoupolis, from the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Alexandria and all Africa.
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