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The Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholemew has issued an encyclical on the Sunday of Orthodoxy (21 February) insisting on the need for dialogue despite the condemnation of zealous opponents.

At the 2010 ecumenical retreat of Toowoomba Churches Together, participants from four churches practised ways of seeing the Church in each other.

The G7 nations have pledged to cut Haiti’s debts. The World Council of Churches welcomes this step and urges the IMF to follow suit.

A group of Christian health workers has been arrested during a training workshop. The World Council of Churches has appealed to the President of the Philippines to release them.