Joint Declaration on the Doctrine of Justification (Wikipedia)

Wikipedia's article on the Joint Declaration on the Doctrine of Justification. Records that representatives of the Roman Catholic Church's Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity and the Lutheran World Federation signed the declaration on 31 October 1999 at St. Anne's Church in Augsburg, Germany. Quotes the declaration's statement that believers are accepted by God by grace alone through faith in Christ and not because of their own merit, and that the sixteenth century mutual condemnations no longer apply to the teaching on justification each side now presents. States that the World Methodist Council adopted the declaration in 2006, the Anglican Consultative Council affirmed it in 2016, and the World Communion of Reformed Churches signed it in 2017, with bodies representing about seventy five percent of the world's Christians formally affirming it as of that year. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/