WCC NEWS:Central and Eastern European ecumenical education network is inaugurated

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Date Fri, 22 Oct 2010 16:54:59 +0200

World Council of Churches - News

CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPEAN ECUMENICAL EDUCATION NETWORK IS 
INAUGURATED

For immediate release: 22 October 2010

The recently established Network for Ecumenical Learning in Central 
and
Eastern Europe (NELCEE) held its first consultation in Prague, 14-17
October.


The topic of the debates was "Religious education in school –
confessional or ecumenical?"


The network is a result of three conferences organized between 2003 
and
2008 by the World Council of Churches, the Conference of European 
Churches
and the Volos Academy (Greece). NELCEE coordination was entrusted to 
the
Institute for Ecumenical Research, Sibiu, Romania.


The 12 member institutes from 11 European countries have decided to
consolidate their collaboration in the field of religious education. 
The
immediate objectives are: to win new members for the network, to
facilitate student and professor exchange programmes between 
participating
institutes, to encourage a tight cooperation with the national 
ministries
of education and to develop common research projects.


The first common research project will be focused on "Formal and 
informal
methods for ecumenical formation in Central and Eastern Europe".

More information is available on the NELCEE website (Link:
http://www.oikoumene.org/index.php?RDCT=537526c86e002ae5fa30 )

Documents of the precursory 2008 meeting on Ecumenical Theological
Education in Eastern and Central Europe (Link:
http://www.oikoumene.org/index.php?RDCT=4becef319ca09cfc4393 )


The World Council of Churches promotes Christian unity in faith, 
witness 
and service for a just and peaceful world. An ecumenical fellowship 
of 
churches founded in 1948, today the WCC brings together 349 
Protestant, 
Orthodox, Anglican and other churches representing more than 560 
million 
Christians in over 110 countries, and works cooperatively with the 
Roman 
Catholic Church. The WCC general secretary is Rev. Dr Olav Fykse 
Tveit, 
from the [Lutheran] Church of Norway. Headquarters: Geneva, 
Switzerland.



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