Origin from 2016
On 31 October 2016, Pope Francis and Lutheran World Federation president Bishop Munib Younan led a Common Prayer service at the Lutheran Cathedral of Lund, Sweden, opening a year of joint Catholic-Lutheran commemorations for the Reformation's five hundredth anniversary. Around five hundred worshippers attended the cathedral service, the product of a fifty year dialogue between the two communions, and thousands more gathered afterward at the Malmo Arena under the theme Together in Hope. Francis and Younan signed a joint statement committing both communions to deepen their communion and their common witness for justice, and the Lutheran World Federation's Lutheran World Service director and the secretary general of Caritas Internationalis signed a separate declaration on humanitarian cooperation. Younan said the two communions had come to recognize that what unites them is far greater than what divides them.
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StatusEstablished marks the service, the joint statement and the humanitarian declaration signed that day. It is not a claim that the doctrinal differences between the two communions over justification, ministry or the papacy have been resolved, a question this atlas does not adjudicate here. Connections
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This source names Caritas Internationalis directly: "director and the secretary general of Caritas Internationalis signed a separate declaration on humanitarian cooperation."
Source Apostolic Journey to Sweden: Common Ecumenical Prayer at the Lutheran Cathedral of Lund (Vatican)
This source names Francis directly: "On 31 October 2016, Pope Francis and Lutheran World Federation president Bishop Munib Younan led a Common Prayer service at the Lutheran Cathedral of Lund, Sweden, opening a year of joint..."
Source Apostolic Journey to Sweden: Common Ecumenical Prayer at the Lutheran Cathedral of Lund (Vatican)
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Source Apostolic Journey to Sweden: Common Ecumenical Prayer at the Lutheran Cathedral of Lund (Vatican)
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Closes a 27 year gap since 1999's The Catholic Church and Lutherans Sign a Joint Declaration on Justification, the most recent event already on Lutheranism's map, with the two communions' own leaders jointly opening the Reformation's five hundredth anniversary year together.
Source Apostolic Journey to Sweden: Common Ecumenical Prayer at the Lutheran Cathedral of Lund (Vatican)
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Lutherans and Catholics Gather in Lund, Sweden (Living Lutheran)
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