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The Commision on Christian Unity and Interreligious Concerns (¶ 642)
Facebook NIC UMC Ecumenical Interreligious http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#!/pages/EcumenicalInterreligious-NIC-UMC/189543851061670 is committed to seeing that our relationships with other churches and other faiths reflect God’s love that embraces All people into knowing themselves as a household at God’s table. Dr. Martin Luther King drew on the Biblical Greek word oikos, meaning “house,” to say. “We have inherited a big house, a great world house[oikoumene] in which we have to live together- black and white, Easterners and Westerners, Gentiles and Jews, Catholics and Protestants, Moslem and Hindu, a family unduly separated . . . in ideas, culture, and interests who . . . must learn, somehow, in this one big world, to live with each other. This means that more and more our loyalties must become ecumenical [oikoumene].”
The CCUIC website http://www.gbgm-umc.org/
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NEWS
Bishop Hee-Soo Jung commentary on Muslim relationships April 2011 Community with our Muslim Neighbors
http://www.umcnic.org/k_newsdetail.php?id=993
Amos Oladipo, chair of the Commission on Christian Unity and Interreligious Concerns, accepted award to Northern Illinois Conference from ISNA at their July 4 Rosemont convention for interfaith outreach with the Muslim Community. Reporter article: http://www.umcnic.org/z_includes/pf.php?id=969
Assistant to the Bishop, Rev. Arlene Christopherson, spoke to press conference at the Eid celebration at Toyota Park on Friday September 10. http://www.facebook.com/home.php#!/video/video.php?v=724744150079
EVENTS I
The Week of Prayer for Christian Unity.
Local Christian churches are joining in an ecumenical celebration during the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity from January 18 to 25. In addition to prayer at individual churches, there will be ecumenical services throughout Chicago and the metropolitan area. Click here for more information.
Traditionally celebrated between 18-25 January or at Pentecost, during the Week of Prayer in congregations all over the world, pulpits and hospitality are exchanged, and special ecumenical worship services are arranged.
http://www.oikoumene.org/fWOP2012eng.pdf
WORLD INTERFAITH HARMONY WEEK
February 1-7, 2012
The Council of Religious Leaders of Metropolitan Chicago encourages local faith communities of each faith heritage to engage and enable interfaith harmony during this week by: prayer, messages and teaching about the world faith traditions, interfaith dialogue, and interfaith advocacy and service for the suffering and marginalized.
United Nations World Interfaith Harmony Week
The Commission on Christian Unity and Interreligious Concerns (CCUIC) will meet on the following dates in 2012:
NEXT CCUIC MEETING - Saturday: February 11, 2012, 9:00
At Our Saviour's United Methodist Church, 701 E. Schaumburg Rd., Schaumburg60194
CONTACTS
General Commission on Christian Unity and Interreligious Concerns
Conference Commission on Christian Unity and Interreligious Concerns http://gbgm-umc.org/interrelig
Facebook NIC UMC Ecumenical Interreligious http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#!/pages/EcumenicalInterreligious-NIC-UMC/189543851061670
630-337-3183
World Council of Churches http://www.oikoumene.org/
National Council of Churches http://ncccusa.org/
Illinois Conference of Churches http://www.ilconfchurches.org/
World Methodist Council http://www.worldmethodistcouncil.org/
Council of Religious Leaders of Metropolitan Chicago http://www.crlmc.org/
EMC Ecumenism Metro Chicago http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#!/pages/Chicago-IL/Ecumenism-Metro-Chicago/161440747224181
World Federation of Methodist and Uniting Church Women http://www.wfmucw.org/
Chairperson - NIC Commission on Christian Unity and Interreligious Concerns
Amos Oladipo
773-561-6422
oladipoamos@yahoo.com
NIC Ecumenical/Interreligious Office Liaison
Charles Emery
630-337-3183 charlese@ameritech.net
Edgar Hiestand
708-660-9168 ehiest@mc.net
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