This year's Week of
Prayer for Christian Unity
centers on Jerusalem and essentials of the faith
The Week of Prayer for Christian Unity, to be celebrated January 18-25 in
most Christian churches in the northern hemisphere, will be grounded in the
experience of the churches in Jerusalem.
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Week of Prayer for Christian Unity |
The theme - "One
in the apostles’ teaching, fellowship, breaking of bread and prayer"
(Acts 2:42) - was chosen by a group of Christian leaders in Jerusalem. The
leaders intend the theme as a call for inspiration and renewal, a return to
the essentials of the faith, and a call to remember the time when the church
was still one.
World Council of Churches general secretary Rev. Dr Olav
Fykse Tveit wrote in a letter to churches introducing the prayers for 2011,
"The unity of the church we seek is not a mere abstraction. For
Christians in Jerusalem, who live in continuity with the apostolic community
of Jerusalem, the mother church of us all, such unity entails prayer,
reflection and a cry arising within a context of despair and suffering.
Together with them we trust that God is ever vigilant as we pray for peace
and justice for all inhabitants of the Holy Land."
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