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The declaration on the doctrine of justification of the Lutheran World Federation and the Catholic Church signed in 1999, dealt with the doctrinal positions of the Lutherans and the Catholics...

After looking back on the past, the report of the Lutheran and Roman Catholic Commission on Unity made proposals for the 500th anniversary of the beginning of the Reformation in...

The following dates give an idea of the variety of ecumenical approaches taken since the beginning of the 20th century.

The Assemblies of the World Council of Churches define the missions the officials of the organisation. It is called regularly by hosting Churches on specific themes. They elect the central...

The general secretary of the WCC is elected for an extendable five-year mandate. He is nominated by the members of the Central Committee elected at the General Assembly. The general...

Willem Adolph Visser’t Hooft was a great figure of the ecumenical movement that developed within Protestant and Orthodox Churches in the 20th century. After being a leader in Christian youth...

The International Missionary Council (IMC) was created in 1921. It’s beginnings are found in the Edinburgh Conference of 1910. The purpose was to develop an evangelisation charity taking into account...

The World Council of Churches has its headquarters in Geneva, and gathers over 300 different churches, be they Protestant, Anglican, or Orthodox, from over 140 countries. Though they are all...

This Mission is a member of the French Protestant Federation and unites several separate Churches. The Protestant Gypsy Evangelical Mission is part of the Revival Movement which transformed evangelization by...

The World Christian Student Federation is an international youth ecumenical movement created in the late 19th century as an evangelizing mouvement. It played a key role in the setting up...

The Catholics are the largest branch of Christianity. They belong to the Roman Church and the united East Churches in Rome.

Christianity developed quickly in the Roman Empire with a lot of diversity. Disputes arose and were settled by ecumenical councils which defined the correct doctrine and condemned the others. They...

The East-West schism in 1054 separated the Oriental Churches from the Occidental ones. The orthodox were the main branch of Christians of oriental origin. Their organisation changed over centuries. After...

Born in Palestine amongst Judaism, Christianity progressively established itself in the Roman Empire and then spread all over the world. It evolved along with a great doctrinal and ritual diversity:...

The Bourbons descended in direct line from Louis IX also called Saint Louis ; they were blood princes. They had precedence over all the other noble men in the Kingdom and...

Along with the Castle of If, in Marseilles, the Tower of Constance, in Aigues-Mortes, and the Fort of Brescou, in Agde, the fort on the île Sainte-Marguerite is one of...

The Kirchentag is a meeting organised by lay members of the EKD (Evangelische Kirche in Deutschland)  (German Evangelical Church) for German and European Protestants since 1949. It’s purpose is to...

Jacques Sturm was a major figure of the Protestant Reformation in Strasbourg. He was open to new religious trends, and adopted Luther’s message, thus imposing on the city an authoritarian...

The foundation stone was laid on 28 July 1886 at 102 boulevard Arago, opposite the Protestant Institute of Theology. It was inaugurated in 1887.

The Protestant Faculty of theology of Paris was founded in 1873, and called Protestant Independent school of theology, upon the initiative of Strasbourg University professors, especially Frédéric Lichtenberger and Auguste...