Religion: The Ecumenical Century

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The greatest gathering of Christians since the 16th century, when the Council of Trent worked for 18 years to counter the Protestant Reformation, ends this week in New Delhi. It is the third Assembly of the World Council of Churches. Behind all the well-organized confusion — the hustling to and fro between auditorium and committee room, the 15,000 sheet daily blizzard of mimeographed paper, the lost traveler's checks, the distracting snake charmers and the non stop talking across language barriers — a vast regrouping of Christendom seems to be taking shape....

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