The Week of Prayer for Christian Unity began as a small initiative that grew in popularity over the years.<\/p>\n
In 1908, Protestant pastor Paul Wattson organized it for the first time, though there had already been similar projects in the past. <\/p>\n
Over time, Christians of different denominations joined the initiative. The Catholic Church officially joined in 1968.<\/p>\n
In the northern hemisphere, it's celebrated from Jan. 18 to 25, from the former feast of the Confession of St. Peter to the feast of the Conversion of St. Paul.<\/p>\n
In Rome, the pope concludes the week in the Basilica of St. Paul Outside the Walls, alongside other Christian leaders.<\/p>\n
In the southern hemisphere, since the<\/p>\n
Conversion of St. Paul usually falls during a vacation period, it's celebrated on another occasion, for example around Pentecost.<\/p>\n
The theme this year is \u201cThat all may be one,\u201d from the Gospel of St. John.<\/p>\n
POPE FRANCIS<\/strong><\/p>\n In these days, let us pray together so that Jesus\u2019s desire might be accomplished: \u201cThat all may be one.\u201d Unity, which is always superior to conflict.<\/em><\/p>\n Every year, a different Christian group is in charge of preparing the texts for reflection.<\/p>\n This year the task fell to the monastic community of Grandchamp, in Switzerland, formed by religious sisters of different Christian Churches and of a strong ecumenical vocation.<\/p>\n There are some 2.4 billion Christians around the world. The majority belong to one of the three large branches: Catholics, Orthodox and Protestants.<\/p>\n Javier Romero<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" January 19 2021 The initiative was born at the beginning of the 20th century in a Protestant context, and it gained strength over the years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":15144,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"acf":{"video":"https:\/\/youtu.be\/fZOBTWDt5EE","video_descarga":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/bunidaddeloscristianoseng.mp4","international_url":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/bunidaddeloscristianosint.mp4","type":"bn","newsletter":"si"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45735"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45735"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45735\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}