Round Table on the Challenges of Ecumenism

On 18 January, the Chaplain-President, supported by the Revd Sarah-Jane King, was the Anglican speaker at an evening round table on ecumenism organised by our good friends at the Chapelle de l'Europe, the Jesuit and ecumenical chaplaincy to the European Quarter in Brussels, in the context of the current Week of Prayer for Christian Unity. Father Manuel Prieto (Catholic, the General Secretary of COMECE), Ms Katerina Pekridou (Orthodox, on the staff of CEC) and Pastor Johannes Landau (Lutheran) joined Jack in discussing the challenges and opportunities of 21st century ecumenism. Questions from the audience raised the issue of migration from the Global South as a key factor in transforming all the mainstream European Churches in exciting and life-giving ways.