"It is together that we find our place in the world," the World Council of Churches (WCC) general secretary, Rev Dr Samuel Kobia has told WCC member churches and ecumenical partners in a message about priorities for the years ahead.
"Our calling is to be a people who seek and serve Christ together, to be churches alive in the promise of God’s world-transforming love," the Rev Dr Samuel Kobia says.
The message, released in the season of Epiphany, is for the period until 2013 (reflecting plans made since the WCC's 9th assembly last year in Brazil).
The message says "ecumenical Christianity for the 21st century" stands on that common experience of Christ and on "a common understanding of a world shared with all of humankind"....