John Stott said that an essential for future Christians was unity that calls for cooperation and love among believers, emphasising core shared beliefs while allowing for liberty in non-essentials. Dr Ian Watson explores how his ideas can help us locally.
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Inter Faith Week will take place from Sunday 9 to Sunday 16 November. The theme for 2025 is Community: Together We Serve.
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Rev Lythan Nevard, Moderator of the United Reformed Church (URC) Eastern Synod and senior church leader on Churches Together in Norfolk and Waveney, has been appointed to a new role: Ecumenical Canon of Ely Cathedral.
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A new book about Saint John Henry Newman, written by a retired Norfolk priest and with a foreword by King Charles III, will be launched in Walsingham on November 1 to coincide with Newman being declared a Doctor of the Church by Pope Leo XIV.
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Ecumenical Service with Churches Together in Norfolk and Waveney at St John the Baptist Cathedral, Norwich – Sunday 23 November, 3.30pm
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Was faith ever meant to fly a flag? Dr Ian Watson, County Ecumenical Officer, doesn’t think so. Here he argues that when Christianity becomes a tool of politics, it loses the love that makes it true.
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A reflection on how Vatican II’s declarations on Non-Christian Religions and Religious Freedom strengthens the call for Christian Unity as a foundation for more effective interfaith and non-religious relations, by Dr Ian Watson, County Ecumenical Officer.
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Dr Ian Watson, County Ecumenical Officer, welcomes the appointment of Sarah Mullally from an ecumenical perspective
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The Catholic Bishops’ Conference of England and Wales has appointed Fr Marc Homsey, a priest of the Diocese of Leeds, as the National Ecumenical Officer.
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