As every year, today, January 18, starts the Octave for Christian unity.
spend each year consists of eight days of prayer and study in favor of Christian unity, from 18 to 25 January. It is an ecumenical activity.
for ecumenism means an effort to restore the unity of all Christians. It involves those who invoke the Triune God and confess Jesus as Lord and Savior.
The movement officially began with the Missionary Conference in Edinburgh (Scotland) in 1910. Arose in a Protestant and a missionary context.
For its part the Catholic Church has led an effort in the same direction. Pope John XXIII, he founded the "Secretariat for the Union of Christians. "
In times of violence and public insecurity is necessary in order to work towards reconciliation and peace. It is possible that we recognize ourselves as children of the Father live facing because of our faith.
from faith we profess is required to practice and promote attitudes and actions based on the value and dignity, with respect to different ways of thinking, feeling and believing and promoting dialogue and collaboration
What steps should we give to united from the faith, let us be instruments of reconciliation and peace?
What form could organize?
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