On 19 July, 2006, the news agency Ecumenical News International published the following tickler on their website, http://www.eni.ch/. Since I don’t subscribe to their news service, I don’t have access to the text in full, but I find it interesting in this short version, as well.
World Methodists to sign up to Lutheran-Catholic agreement
Geneva (ENI). A global gathering of Methodist churches is set to sign up to a groundbreaking agreement between Lutherans and Roman Catholics on the doctrine of justification, a key doctrinal question at the time of the 16th century Protestant Reformation. "This was one of the issues that created the split that formed the Protestant church," said the Rev. George H. Freeman, general secretary of the World Methodist Council. He was speaking in advance of the World Methodist Conference in Seoul.
