WCC NEWS:Central and Eastern European ecumenical education network is inaugurated
From WCC media <noreply@wcc-coe.org>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. You receive this information as a subscriber of our media list. You are registered as Worldwide Faith News with the address wfn-editors@wfn.org. Click here to unsubscribe or change your distribution settings (Link: http://www.oikoumene.org/index.php?RDCT=dff0b1cf9dff87aabaec ).