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...raised Protestant, was confirmed at a Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church in Jamaica Plain, Boston. Now, older, wiser, and Ukrainian Greek Catholic, Peisker says she plans to return to the university in Lviv next year to coordinate a master’s program in ecumenical studies, specifically on interchurch relations.THE WORLD AS A CLASSROOMChanequa N. Campbell ’09 says she had a different outlook on her year abroad from the outset. She chose not to write a thesis and had no prior relation with the two countries in which she would spend a semester each...
Undaunted, Kintaudi and the ECC approached USAID with a plan to revive the country's devastated health-care system. They received a five-year $25 million grant, disbursed through Interchurch Medical Assistance, a nongovernmental organization based in the U.S., to set up 56 health zones located throughout the nation. (An additional 17 ECC-run health zones are funded by the World Bank.) A typical health zone serves 100,000 to 150,000 people with one hospital and about 20 health clinics, generally run by nurses...
Evangelicals had already seized the moment. Within a year of the 1990 court decision, prayer clubs bloomed spontaneously on a thousand high school campuses. Fast on their heels came adult organizations dedicated to encouraging more. Proffitt's Tennessee-based organization, First Priority, founded in 1995, coordinates interchurch groups in 162 cities working with clubs in 3,000 schools. The San Diego-based National Network of Youth Ministries has launched "Challenge 2000," which pledges to bring the Christian gospel "to every kid on every secondary campus in every community in our nation by the year 2000." It also promotes a phenomenon...
...course on Christian ecumenism. The Pope's agenda reflected not the imperial hand of the Vatican conservative old guard, but the more cosmopolitan touch of Britain's Catholic hierarchy. All observers agreed that the Pope's visit was without doubt his most ecumenical tour. Two significant interchurch services took place in Canterbury and Liverpool, and there were several conferences with non-Catholic clergy, who received personal invitations from John Paul to continue the discussions later at the Vatican. "Next time in Rome," the Pope told them...
Member churches will retain their own identities, doctrines and devotions. The constitution of the conference com mits them to "doing together all things save those which we must in conscience and obedience do separately, cultivating interchurch fellowships throughout the state and fostering dialogue in the realm of faith and order." In the near future, the social-action programs of the Texas Catholic Conference will probably be merged with similar programs run by the council. Eventually, predicted San Antonio's Roman Catholic Archbishop Robert E. Lucey, the work of the new organization will extend into "the whole field...