ΒΑΣΙΚΑ ΣΤΟΙΧΕΙΑ ΚΑΙ ΠΡΟΔΙΑΓΡΑΦΕΣ ΤΗΣ ΔΗΛΩΣΕΩΣ ΤΟΥ ΤΟΡΟΝΤΟ: ‘’Η ΕΚΚΛΗΣΙΑ, ΟΙ ΕΚΚΛΗΣΙΕΣ ΚΑΙ ΤΟ ΠΣΕ. Ο ΕΚΚΛΗΣΙΟΛΟΓΙΚΟΣ ΧΑΡΑΚΤΗΡΑΣ ΤΟΥ ΠΣΕ’’.

 Ιωάννου Λότσιου, Δρ.Θ.

ΒΑΣΙΚΑ ΣΤΟΙΧΕΙΑ ΚΑΙ ΠΡΟΔΙΑΓΡΑΦΕΣ ΤΗΣ ΔΗΛΩΣΕΩΣ ΤΟΥ ΤΟΡΟΝΤΟ: Η ΕΚΚΛΗΣΙΑ, ΟΙ ΕΚΚΛΗΣΙΕΣ ΚΑΙ ΤΟ ΠΣΕ. Ο ΕΚΚΛΗΣΙΟΛΟΓΙΚΟΣ ΧΑΡΑΚΤΗΡΑΣ ΤΟΥ ΠΣΕ, ΘΕΟΛΟΓΙΑ 87, 3 (2016), σ. 237-258

ΤΟ AΡΘΡΟ-ΒΑΣΗ ΤΟY ΠΑΓΚΟΣΜΙΟΥ ΣΥΜΒΟΥΛΙΟΥ ΤΩΝ ΕΚΚΛΗΣΙΩΝ ΚΑΙ Η ΤΡΙΑΔΟΛΟΓΙΚΗ ΔΙΕΡΕΥΝΗΣΗ ΣΤΟ ΝΕΟ ΔΕΛΧΙ

Τό Ἄρθρο-Βάση τοῦ Παγκόσμιου Συμβουλίου τῶν Ἐκκλησιῶν καί ἡ Τριαδολογική Διερεύνηση στό Νέο Δελχί

"ΟΙΚΟΣ ΘΕΟΥ ΚΑΙ ΟΙΚΟΥΜΕΝΗ''. ΣΥΝΟΠΤΙΚΟ ΣΧΟΛΙΟ ΣΤΗΝ ΙΕΡΑΠΟΣΤΟΛΗ ΤΟΥ LESSLIE NEWBIGIN

Δρ. Ιωάννης Λότσιος, Μέλος του Κέντρου CEMES, Δημοσιευτηκε στην Panorthodox Synod

ΑΠΟ ΚΟΙΝΟΥ ΓΙΑ ΤΗ ΖΩΗ: ΙΕΡΑΠΟΣΤΟΛΗ ΚΑΙ ΕΥΑΓΓΕΛΙΣΜΟΣ ΣΕ ΕΝΑΝ ΜΕΤΑΒΑΛΛΟΜΕΝΟ ΚΟΣΜΟ.EKΔΟΣΕΙΣ CEMES 10

                                                        EKΔΟΣΕΙΣ CEMES 10

ΑΠΟ ΚΟΙΝΟΥ ΓΙΑ ΤΗ ΖΩΗ: ΙΕΡΑΠΟΣΤΟΛΗ ΚΑΙ ΕΥΑΓΓΕΛΙΣΜΟΣ ΣΕ ΕΝΑΝ ΜΕΤΑΒΑΛΛΟΜΕΝΟ ΚΟΣΜΟ.

Η ΝΕΑ ΙΕΡΑΠΟΣΤΟΛΙΚΗ ΔΙΑΚΗΡΥΞΗ ΤΟΥ ΠΑΓΚΟΣΜΙΟΥ ΣΥΜΒΟΥΛΙΟΥ ΕΚΚΛΗΣΙΩΝ

Statement by the WCC General Secretary, Rev Dr Olav Fykse Tveit on the Encyclical Letter Laudato Si

18 June 2015

Today the Encyclical Laudato si’ has been officially launched. A much expected first letter of the Holy Father who is addressed to all people (Paragraph 4).

Week of Prayer for Christian Unity: Theme for 2015: Jesus said to her: "Give me to drink"(John 4:7)

WCC,

At least once a year, Christians are reminded of Jesus’ prayer for his disciples that “they may be one so that the world may believe” (see John 17.21). Hearts are touched and Christians come together to pray for their unity. Congregations and parishes all over the world exchange preachers or arrange special ecumenical celebrations and prayer services. The event that touches off this special experience is the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity.

Traditionally the week of prayer is celebrated between 18-25 January, between the feasts of St Peter and St Paul. In the southern hemisphere, where January is a vacation time, churches often find other days to celebrate it, for example around Pentecost, which is also a symbolic date for unity.

In order to prepare for the annual celebration, ecumenical partners in a particular region are invited to produce a basic liturgical text on a biblical theme. Then an international editorial team of WCC and Roman Catholic representatives refines this text to ensure that it can be prayed throughout the world, and to link it with the search for the visible unity of the church.

The text is jointly published by the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity and the WCC, through the WCC's Commission on Faith and Order, which also accompanies the entire production process of the text. The final material is sent to WCC member churches and Roman Catholic episcopal conferences, and they are invited to translate the text and contextualize or adapt it for their own use.

Text:
Download : WPCU2015en.pdf

Συνάντηση Πατριάρχη Ρωσίας και Γενικού Γραμματέα του Παγκοσμίου Συμβουλίου των Εκκλησιών

Tου Ιωάννη Λότσιου,

Ο Γενικός Γραμματέας του Παγκοσμίου Συμβουλίου των Εκκλησιών Dr Olav Fykse Tveit συναντήθηκε σήμερα με τον Πατριάρχη Ρωσίας, παρουσία του Μητροπολίτη Ιλαρίωνα, Προέδρου του Τμήματος των Εξωτερικών και Εκκλησιαστικών Υποθέσεων. Η συνάντηση πραγματοποιήθηκε κατόπιν αιτήματος του Γενικού Γραμματέα προς τον Πατριάρχη Ρωσίας. O Πατριάρχης Ρωσίας υπογράμισε μεταξύ άλλων:ανέφερε ιδιαίτερα: «Θέλω να ξεκινήσουμε τη συζήτησή μας με την αναφορά στη συνεδρία της Κεντρικής Επιτροπής του Π.Σ.Ε. το παρελθόντα Ιούλιο στη Γενεύη. Μελέτησα το σχετικό υλικό και πρέπει να ομολογήσω τη θετική εντύπωση που αποκόμισα από το έργο. Ακόμα και το θέμα, το οποίο προβάλλεται τώρα, δηλαδή της ειρήνης και της δικαιοσύνης, είναι άκρως επίκαιρο. Ως Εκκλησία στη θεώρησή μας του έξωθεν κόσμου και ιδίως του πολιτικού κόσμου, πάντα τονίζουμε την ανάγκη συνδυασμού κάθε ειρηνευτικής πρωτοβουλίας με τη δικαιοσύνη, διότι χωρίς τη δικαιοσύνη είναι πολύ εύθραυστη η ειρήνη. Είναι τελευταία που απευθυνόμενος στο Ουκρανικό μου ποίμνιο συνέχεια ομιλώ για την ανάγκη της δικαιοσύνης, η οποία είναι απαραίτητη προκειμένου να επιτευχθεί η πραγματική ειρήνη στην Ουκρανία. Είναι σημαντικό να εκλείψει κάθε διάκριση σε βάρος των ανθρώπων για γλώσσικούς, εθνικούς και θρησκευτικούς λόγους».
 Η συζήτηση επικεντρώθηκε για τις εκκλησίες και τις προκλήσεις αποκατάστασης της ειρήνης. Ο Γενικός Γραμματέας του ΠΣΕ εξέφρασε την αλληλεγγύη του προς την Ρωσική Εκκλησία, η οποία είναι μέλος του ΠΣΕ, για την οδυνηρή σύγκρουση στην Ουκρανία. Επίσης έμφαση δόθηκε στα θέματα της Μ. Ανατολής και την συμπαράσταση στις εκκλησίες της περιοχής. Επίσης μεγάλη έμφαση δόθηκε για τις αρνητικές συνέπειες που έχει το ουκρανικό ζήτημα, στις σχέσεις Ανατολής και Δύσης στη Ευρώπη και στις σχέσεις μεταξύ των εκκλησιών.
Τέλος ο Πατριάρχης Ρωσίας πιστεύει ότι το Παγκόσμιο Συμβούλιο Εκκλησιών δύναται να διαδραματίσει από τους κορυφαίους ρόλους στη διεξαγωγή του ἐν λόγῳ διαλόγου και το συντονισμό της διαχριστιανικής συνεργασίας στο θέμα ειρήνης.
 

Πηγή:

https://www.oikoumene.org/en/press-centre/news/wcc-general-secretary-meets-with-patriarch-kirill-in-moscow
https://mospat.ru/gr/2014/10/10/news109435/

Climate, Faith and Hope: Faith traditions together for a common future

As part of a global effort to mobilize action and ambition on climate change, the United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is organizing a Climate Summit on 23 September 2014 in New York. In order to highlight the specific contributions that faith traditions bring to the international climate debate, the World Council of Churches and Religions for Peace will organize an Interfaith Summit on Climate Change, to be held in New York 21-22 September 2014.
One of the objectives... of this Interfaith Summit will be to convey the faith communities’ concerns and proposals to the Secretary General’s Climate Summit as part of long term efforts to influence the climate negotiations and the contributions countries bring to the table.

This is the statment signed on September 21 in New York.

Statement:

As representatives from different faith and religious traditions, we stand together to express deep concern for the consequences of climate change on the earth and its people, all entrusted, as our faiths reveal, to our common care. Climate change is indeed a threat to life, a precious gift we have received and that we need to care for.

We acknowledge the overwhelming scientific evidence that climate change is human-induced and that, without global and inclusive action towards mitigation and unless fully addressing its fundamental causes, its impacts will continue to grow in intensity and frequency. At the same time, we are ready to dialogue with those who remain skeptical.

In our communities and thanks to the media, we see the manifestations of climate change everywhere. From our brothers and sisters around the world, we hear about its effects on people and nature. We recognize that these effects disproportionally affect the lives, livelihoods and rights of poorer, marginalized and therefore most vulnerable populations, including indigenous peoples. When those who have done the least to cause climate change are the ones hardest hit, it becomes an issue of injustice. Equitable solutions are urgently needed.

We recognize that climate change stands today as a major obstacle to the eradication of poverty. Severe weather events exacerbate hunger, cause economic insecurity, force displacement and prevent sustainable development. The climate crisis is about the survival of humanity on planet earth, and action must reflect these facts with urgency.

Therefore, as faith leaders, we commit ourselves to the promotion of disaster risk reduction, adaptation, low carbon development, climate change education, curbing our own consumption patterns and reducing our use of fossil fuels. Based on our spiritual beliefs and our hope for the future, we commit to stimulating consciences and encouraging our peers and communities to consider such measures with urgency.

We share the conviction that the threats of climate change cannot be curbed effectively by a single State alone but only by the enhanced co-operation of the community of States, based on principles of mutual trust, fairness and equity, precaution, intergenerational justice and common but differentiated responsibilities and capabilities. We urge the rich to support the poor and the vulnerable significantly and everywhere, especially in Least Developed Countries, Small Island States and Sub-Saharan Africa. Significant support would include generous financial resources, capacity building, technology transfer and other forms of co-operation.

We encourage Heads of State and Ministers attending the Climate Summit to announce pledges for the Green Climate Fund, including commitments to increase them thereafter, to establish new partnerships for climate resilience and low carbon development, and to assure access to renewable energies for all people.

As people of faith, we call on all governments to express their commitment to limit global warming well below 2° Celsius. We emphasize that all States share the responsibility to formulate and implement Low Carbon Development Strategies leading to de-carbonization and the complete phase-out of fossil fuels by mid-century.

Consequently we encourage world political and economic leaders to exercise their leadership during the Climate Summit by announcing joint actions such as important short-term emission cuts, phasing out fossil fuel subsidies, coal caps or coal divestment, forest protection, increased energy efficiency in construction and transportation, and other concrete steps. We further call on all governments to identify medium and long-term adaptation needs and to develop strategies to address them based on country-driven, gender-sensitive and participatory approaches to better manage residual loss and damage due to adverse climate impacts.

Ultimately we request all States to work constructively towards a far-reaching global climate agreement in Paris in 2015, building on transparency, adequacy and accountability. The new agreement must be:

• ambitious enough to keep temperature from rising well below 2° Celsius;
• fair enough to distribute the burden in an equitable way; and
• legally binding enough to guarantee that effective national climate policies to curb emissions are well funded and fully implemented.

As religious representatives and citizens in your countries, we hereby commit ourselves to address the climate change threat. We continue to count on your leadership, and we encourage and expect you to make the right decisions. When difficult decisions need to be taken for the sustainability of the earth and its people, we are ready to stand with you. We pray for you and for all humanity in caring for the earth.

Πηγή:

http://www.interfaithclimate.org/the-statement