Global church leaders hold historic meeting
Bolstering efforts to overcome divisions among Christians, high-level officials for global Catholic, Orthodox, Pentecostal, evangelical, and mainline Protestant organizations met together for the first time.
The leaders who gathered “together represent in some sense nearly all of world Christianity,” said Larry Miller, secretary of the Global Christian Forum. That they “are now ready to work hand-in-hand in a common forum is reason for profound gratitude for the past and high hope for the future.”
The historic meeting in late May in Bossey, Switzerland, gathered the top leaders of the World Council of Churches, the Pentecostal World Fellowship, the World Evangelical Alliance, and the Vatican’s Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity.
