Pope Francis is
"studying" a visit to the Geneva HQ of the World Council of
Churches to discuss a WCC peace move, well-informed sources told
ANSA Tuesday.
The visit will happen in spring and could come as early as
April, the sources said.
The WCC has invited the pope.
The WCC, which has called for an immediate end to attacks in
Syria, is a worldwide inter-church organization founded in 1948.
Its members today include the Assyrian Church of the East,
the Oriental Orthodox Churches, most jurisdictions of the
Eastern Orthodox Church, the Old Catholic Church, the Anglican
Communion, most mainline Protestant churches (such as the
Lutheran, Mennonite, Methodist, Moravian and Reformed) and some
evangelical Protestant churches such as the Baptist and
Pentecostal.
The Roman Catholic Church is not a member although it sends
accredited observers to meetings.
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