The conference, the sizth since 1927, took place at Wadi El Natrun \u2013 a historic centre of Coptic monasticism located southwest of Alexandria, Egypt.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
Commenting on the first day of the conference Prof Methuen said: “I am delighted and privileged to be taking part in the Sixth World Conference on Faith and Order, to experience the generous hospitality of the Coptic Orthodox Church in this historic place, and to explore the theme of Christian unity with nearly 400 Christians from all denominations and across the world.”<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n Prof Methuen spoke in a panel on the final day on Unity, and in a panel in the subgroup on baptismal ecclesiology.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n The WCC described the conference as “the centrepiece of the WCC\u2019s activities to mark the 1700th anniversary of the first Ecumenical Council of Nicaea, a key moment in the history of Christian faith and for the ecumenical journey today.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n “Bringing together church leaders and theologians of different traditions as well as involving a new generation of ecumenists, the Sixth World Conference will approach the theme \u201cWhere now for visible unity?\u201d from the interconnected vantage points of faith, mission, and unity.”<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n You can read the full message from the conference here,<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0watch the recorded proceedings of the conference at the WCC youtube channel here:\u00a0https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@worldcouncilofchurches\/streams<\/a><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n Photos: Albin Hillert\/WCC<\/em><\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cLet us aspire to live the unity for which Christ prayed, that the world may believe and experience God\u2019s gifts of healing, justice and abundant life,\u201d the Sixth World Conference on Faith and Order of the World Council of Churches has said in a call to all Christians agreed on the last day of the […]","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":70623,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hillside.work\/sec\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hillside.work\/sec\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hillside.work\/sec\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hillside.work\/sec\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hillside.work\/sec\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70163"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hillside.work\/sec\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70163\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hillside.work\/sec\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hillside.work\/sec\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hillside.work\/sec\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hillside.work\/sec\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/mcusercontent.com\/8570812f89ec37182e2dcfe57\/images\/0c926c86-0675-972f-b369-0d4dec3b3cd8.jpg\")
<\/a>The Rev Canon Prof Charlotte Methuen, Convener of the Inter-Church Relations Committee (pictured) attended the meeting and had been co-moderator of the committee which drafted the conference’s message.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n