Christelijke kerken in Italië ondertekenen oecumenisch pact

Leaders of the Christian churches in Italy signed a new ecumenical pact during the opening ceremony of the first Symposium of Christian Churches in Italy, which concluded Jan. 24 in the southern city of Bari.“We commit ourselves to assuming a public presence of the church that respects secularity and is in dialogue with society,” the churches declared in one of the key commitments of the document, born out of the Bari symposium dedicated to ecumenism.The pact emphasizes mutual respect, social…