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Starting the new year with a month of Christian unity

by Flyn Ritchie • January 8, 2015 • 1 Comment

January offers a bonanza of events encouraging local Christians to unite: to learn, worship, pray and undertake mission together. The annual Week of Prayer for Christian Unity (January 18 – 25) sets the tone, and no doubt is the reason for two…

Catholic Church welcomed fellow Christians to discuss unity

by Flyn Ritchie • January 22, 2015 • 4 Comments

“As you know, the Catholic Church was rather a latecomer to the restoration of Christian unity.” With these words, Archbishop Michael Miller, CSB, leader of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Vancouver, welcomed an ecumenical audience – predominantly Catholic, but with…