Monday, January 25, 2010

Pope Urges Christians to Unite and Convey Christ's Message of Reconciliation

Divided Christians can and must be united in meeting the modern challenges of secularization, threats to human life, environmental destruction, war and injustice, Pope Benedict XVI said today.

"It is precisely the desire to proclaim Christ to others and bring the world His message of reconciliation that makes one experience the contradiction of Christian divisions," the pope said January 25, 2010, as he closed the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity.

Leaders of the Orthodox, Anglican, and Protestant communities in Rome joined the pope for the annual prayer service at the Basilica of St. Paul Outside the Walls, according to the Catholic News website.

The Week of Prayer 2010 focused on the common Christian vocation to witness to Christ in the world.

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