Faith and Order Update – April 2025

We are delighted to share with you this Faith and Order Update which appears as we are looking towards the Sixth World Conference on Faith and Order, and in the year that marks the 1700th anniversary of the Council of Nicaea. 

As we prepare for this conference to take place in Egypt in October 2025, this update offers an insight to the work undertaken by the Faith and Order commissioners and secretariat, as well as the three study groups set up by the commission. This issue also lists some of the events being organized around the world to mark the anniversary of Nicaea, as well as a presentation of various documents from Faith and Order.

Towards a Common Date for Easter

The World Council of Churches has also published a Faith and Order paper “Towards a Common Date for Easter” as an encouragement to churches and Christians to work with one another in their own contexts for a common celebration of Easter. The publication contains four contributions from different church traditions on the search for a way to celebrate Easter on a common date every year that were presented at a webinar organized by the Commission on Faith and Order on "Easter 2025: Celebrating Together to Strengthen Unity."

Faith and Order paper “Towards a Common Date for Easter"

Webinar “Easter 2025: Celebrating Together to Strengthen Unity”