Call to All Christians: Message of the Sixth World Conference on Faith and Order
The message of the conference the World Council of Churches held at Wadi El Natrun in Egypt in October 2025 as the centre of its commemoration of Nicaea, on the theme “Where now for visible unity?”.
Read the text at oikoumene.org ↗The World Council of Churches’ page for the conference, with place, dates, theme and programme ↗
The World Council of Churches’ page for the conference says that it met at the monastery of St Bishoy at Wadi El Natrun from 24 to 28 October 2025 and was the centrepiece of the council’s activities for the 1,700th anniversary of Nicaea. The message thanks the Coptic Orthodox Church and its pope, Tawadros II, for their hospitality, places the meeting in the line of the Faith and Order conferences from Lausanne in 1927 to Santiago de Compostela in 1993, and ends with a call to renew commitment to faith, mission and unity.
It is the conference’s own statement. The page for the event was written in part before the meeting and speaks of it in the present and future tenses. See the Churches Mark 1,700 Years since Nicaea.
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- 28 November 2025, firm date