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Wpis 03-12-2003
Declaration of Joint Commission of the Chief Rabbinate of Israel's Delegation for Relations with the Catholic Church and the Holy See's Commission for Religious Relations with the Jews
"They stated that they were deeply moved by this historic meeting and Declaration, which serves, they said, as a testimony of the Divine power of reconciliation, peace and mutual respect that can and will overcome the violence and hatred that abo...
Wpis 04-11-2003
Life in Diversity - On God's Trail Mission and Ecumenicity, Witness and Dialogue As Central Fields of Work of the Church
The text of this statement is based on a working assignment given by the Office for Mission and Ecumenical Affairs to its Committee for Witness and Dialogue in May 2002. The Committee was asked to clarify in a theological declaration the “strained a...
Wpis 12-05-2003
Response to Dabru Emet
Since the Shoah, a noteworthy change has taken place in the Lutheran churches concerning our view of Judaism and the Jewish people, a change of a kind previously unknown in the history of our churches. In its Driebergen Declaration (1991), the Europ...
Wpis 10-05-2003
Recommendations for the Liturgy
At its annual meetings, 2001 – 2003 the European Lutheran Commission on the Church and the Jewish People (LEKKJ) studied a number of liturgical texts, and especially the prayers which have as their theme the relationship between the church and the J...
Wpis 27-02-2003
The Sanctity of Human Life and Family Values
Our common religious motivation for this central affirmation is based on the biblical statement that the human being is created in the image of the living God, in His likeness (cf. Genesis 1:26). God is the Holy One and the Creator of human life, an...
Wpis 10-07-2002
An American Baptist Response to "Dabru Emet [To Speak the Truth]: A Jewish Statement on Christians and Christianity". 2002-07-10
As members of the Committee on Christian Unity of the American Baptist Churches in the U.S.A., we wish to express our appreciation to the members of the National Jewish Scholars Project who authored “Dabru Emet: A Jewish Statement on Christians a...
Wpis 04-05-2001
Recommendation on Education in Catholic and Jewish Seminaries and Schools of Theology
Relations between the Catholic Church and the Jewish People have improved significantly in the last half-century. The education of future clergy and lay leaders in both our communities is crucial if coming generations are to sustain and further t...
Wpis 25-06-1996
Two Different Statements on “Jewish Evangelism”
_In June of 1996 the Southern Baptist Convention adopted a resolution affirming the Convention's commitment to evangelization of the Jewish people. In response, New York bishops of the Lutheran, Episcopal, and Roman Catholic Churches issued a sta...
Wpis 31-05-1995
Statement by Metropolitan Yuvenali (Russian Orthodox Church) on the Alleged “Ritual” Nature of the Murder of the Royal Family
Thus, the contemporary expert theological analysis of so-called “ritual murder” confirms the negative specialist opinion of the group of Orthodox theologians (Professor I.G. Troitsky of the St Petersburg Spiritual Academy and Professor A.A. Glagolev...
Wpis 01-05-1992
Guidelines for Catholic-Jewish Relations
Australian Catholic Bishops' Conference. Impelled by the inspiration of Pope John XXIII, the Council wished to inaugurate a fresh start in Catholic-Jewish relations. The main affirmations of paragraph four were these three. Firstly, the Catholic Ch...