The World Council of Churches' Faith and Order Commission
An Ecumenical Journey Towards the Conference in Egypt
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Where now for visible unity? This is a question posed by the World Council of Churches' Faith and Order Commission at its Sixth World Conference, held at the Papal Logos Centre in Wadi El Natrun, Egypt, from October 24 to 29, 2025.
Based on this question, participants are exploring various Ecumenical issues via dialogue sessions and workshops. Through research papers, they are rediscovering Christian unity, discussing the challenges it faces, and ways to strengthen it across different cultures and traditions.
This conference comes at a time when the world is experiencing divisions, conflicts, and a wave of hate speech, injustice, and oppression. Therefore, its events seek to rediscover Christian unity based on the importance of defending the oppressed and marginalized and working to spread the values of love, fraternity, and dialogue.
So, what is the Faith and Order Commission?
The Faith and Order Commission aims to prepare Theological studies to help Churches reach sufficient agreement across their diversity and grow in mutual care and accountability. In doing so, Churches affirm their belief that the Church of Jesus Christ is not many Churches, but One Church.
The Faith and Order movement was launched in the United States by Episcopalians and other Reformation Churches in 1910. The movement held two world conferences in 1927 and 1937. After 1948, the movement became the Faith and Order Commission within the World Council of Churches.
It is worth noting that many world conferences on Faith and Order have been held at pivotal points in the history of the Ecumenical movement.
The first conference was held in 1927 in Lausanne, Switzerland, and the Faith and Order movement was one of the movements that led to the founding of the World Council of Churches in 1948. The fifth conference was held in Santiago de Compostela, Spain, in 1993.
The Faith and Order Commission conferences seek to discuss the work accomplished during the previous period, explore frameworks for future work, and explore ways to strengthen the Ecumenical spirit.