Group 'Reconciliation in Europe – the Task of Churches' holds Ecumenical Meeting

The Group "Reconciliation in Europe – the Task of Churches in Ukraine, Belarus, Poland and Germany” held an ecumenical meeting on March 1 in Warsaw, in the building of the Polish Ecumenical Council. During the meeting the participants summed up the activity of the group in 2010 and discussed the plans for 2011.

In September 2010, the group held an international conference on the problems of migration in Central and Eastern Europe.  This year, a regular conference of the group is to be held in Minsk, Belarus.

RISU learned from a participant of the meeting, the head of the Committee for Promotion of Unity among Christians of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church (UGCC), Fr. Dr. Ihor Shaban, that this year’s session was attended by Archbishop Yeremia of Wroclaw of the Polish Orthodox Church, Deputy Bishop, Pastor Andrii Hamburg of the German Lutheran Church of Ukraine,  Pastor Iryneush Lukas of the Evangelical Augsburg Church of Poland, Fr. Yurii Sanko of the Roman Catholic Church in Belarus, Pro-Rector of the Theological Academy, Assistant Professor V. Burega of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church-Moscow Patriarchate, Professor V. Konah of the Polish Orthodox Church, Mr. Oleksandr Dobroier (Roman Catholic Church in Ukraine), Mr. M. Dmytruk (Polish Ecumenical Council). 

The work team has been active since 1996. It includes official representatives of churches of Germany, Poland, Belarus and Ukraine. The purpose of the group is to discuss actual problems of modernity and cooperation in solving social and religious problems in those countries.