[World Council of Churches] Christians gathered in Sweden for a week of activities recalling the Universal Christian Conference on Life and Work, which gathered in Stockholm in 1925 after the First World War and was a milestone on the path to founding the World Council of Churches in 1948.
A high point was the Aug. 24 service at the cathedral in Uppsala, where the archbishops of the (Lutheran) Church of Sweden have their seat, about 43 miles north of Stockholm, conducted by Swedish Archbishop Martin Modéus and the cathedral dean, Very Rev. Matilda Helg.
The service rounded off an Ecumenical Week in Stockholm from Aug. 18-24 on the theme “Time for God’s Peace” to recall and be inspired by the 1925 conference, which gathered 600 church leaders to work for peace after the carnage of the First World War, and its main organizer, Swedish Archbishop Nathan Söderblom.
Read the full article.