ecumenical movement
Americannoun
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“The ecumenical movement has broadened my viewpoint and I recognize now that God has his people in all churches,” he said in the early 1950s.
From Seattle Times • Feb. 21, 2018
The simple ceremony, launching the United Church of South India last fortnight, marks the first organic union between episcopal and "free-church" Protestant churches�the greatest stride so far in the 20th Century's growing ecumenical movement.
From Time Magazine Archive
And then the fifth septennial Assembly of the World Council of Churches will settle down to the issues that trouble the non-Catholic wing of the ecumenical movement.
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Mormons, Baptists, Presbyterians and others are prominent in this ecumenical movement.
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An E.K.D. spokesman warned in October that the violence issue was "liable to blow the whole ecumenical movement apart."
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