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7. Churches should initiate bilateral negotiations for facilitating each other in using each other's church premises in special cases where any of them is deprived of such means. 8. Where conflicts arise between Churches of our two families, e.g. (a) marriages consecrated in one Church annulled by a bishop of another Church; (b) marriages between members of our two families, being celebrated in one church over against the other; (c) or children from such marriages being forced to join the one church against the other; the Churches involved should come to bilateral agreements on the procedure to be adopted until such problems are finally solved by our union. 9. The Churches of both families should be encouraged to look into the theological curriculum and books used in their institutions and make necessary additions and changes in them with the view to promoting better understanding of the other family of Churches. They may also profitably devise programmes for instructing the pastors and people in our congregations on the issues related to the union of the two families. II. Relations of our Churches with other Christian Churches in the world Our common participation in the ecumenical movement and our involvement in the World Council of Churches needs better co-ordination to make it more effective and fruitful for the promotion of the faith which was once delivered to the saints in the context of the ecumenical movement. We could have a preliminary discussion of this question at the Seventh Assembly of the WCC at Canberra, Australia, in February 1991 as well as in regional and national councils of Churches and work out an appropriate scheme for more effective co-ordination of our efforts. 11. There are crucial issues in which our two families agree fundamentally and have disagreements with the Roman Catholic and Protestant Churches. We could organize small joint consultations on issues like : (a) the position and role of the woman in the life of the Church and our common Orthodox response to the contemporary problem of other Christian communities concerning the ordination of women to the priesthood, (b) pastoral care for mixed marriages between Orthodox and heterodox Christians, (c) marriages between Orthodox Christians and members of other religions, (d) the Orthodox position on dissolution or annulment of marriage, divorce and separation of married couples, (e) abortion. 12. A joint consultation should be held on the burning problem of Proselytism, vis-a-vis religious freedom to draw the framework of an agreement with other Churches, for the procedure to be followed when an Orthodox or Oriental Orthodox person or family wants to join another (Catholic or Protestant) Church or vice-versa. 13. A special joint consultation should be held on the theology and practice of Uniatism in the Roman Catholic Church, as a prelude to a discussion with the Roman Catholic Church on this subject. 14. We need to have another joint consultation to co-ordinate the results of the several bilateral conversations now going on or held in the past by the Churches of our two families with other Catholic and Protestant Churches. III. Our common service to the world of suffering, need, injustice and conflicts 15. We need to think together how best we could co-ordinate our existing schemes for promoting our humanitarian and philanthropic projects in the socio-ethnic context of our peoples and of the world at large. This would entail our common approach to such problems as : (a) hunger and poverty, (b) sickness and suffering, 30
(c) political, religious and social discriminations, (d) refugees and victims of war, (e) youth, drugs and unemployment, (f) the mentally and physically handicapped, (g) the old and the aged. IV. Our co-operation in the propagation of the Christian Faith 16. We need to encourage and promote mutual co-operation as far as possible in the work of our inner mission to our people, i.e. in instructing them in the faith, and how to cope with modern dangers arising from contemporary secularism, including cults, ideologies, materialism, aids, homo-sexuality, the permissive society, consumerism, etc. 17. We also need to find a proper way for collaborating with each other and with the other Christians in the Christian mission to the world without undermining the authority and integrity of the local Orthodox Churches. COP|NET Source: http://www.coptic.net/articles/OrthodoxUnityDialog.txt 31
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