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The Week of Universal Prayer for Christian Unity

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 August 2024

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The week of prayer for the reunion of Christians reminds us that all baptized, people, at present divided from each other, are called to be one.

Throughout the world, from Protestant as well as Catholic, from Orthodox as well as Anglican, will rise the prayer of all who know how painful and how evil are the divisions among Christians.

Nine centuries have passed since the greater part of the Christian East separated from Rome. It is over four hundred years since the Reformation.

And the mass of hundreds of millions of Catholic, Protestant, Anglican and Orthodox believers live to a greater or less degree in a state of indifference to each other.

About 2,400 millions are living on the earth, half in Asia. Nominally, about 400 million are Catholic; 200 million are Orthodox; 175 million are Protestant; and 50 million are Anglican.

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Copyright © 1957 Provincial Council of the English Province of the Order of Preachers

Footnotes

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Translated and adapted from the French of a pamphlet by Père Michalon.