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  • June 10, 2019
    World Council of Churches Pentecost message: to prophesy is to tell the truth

    The regional presidents of the World Council of Churches have sent special greetings to churches around the world celebrating Pentecost.

  • June 10, 2012
    The Euros, Eurovision... and Pentecost?

    The nationalisms represented in the Eurovision Song Contest the European Football Championships and the Queen's Jubilee are of different shapes and levels of intensity, observes Graeme Smith, editor of the international journal Political Theology. What Christianity at its best offers is a vision of how we hold local commitments in a wider, plural context: because of Pentecost, in fact.

  • May 23, 2010
    Pentecost is a call to change the world, say WCC Presidents

    Pentecost is a call to Christians and all people of goodwill to heed the message of change, and to turn from ourselves to our needy neighbour and planet, say church leaders.

  • May 27, 2008
    Hearing hope through the babble

    Globalisation constructed as top-down control and the triumph of the powerful needs to be disrupted by a different and gentler logic, says Simon Barrow. But will we choose Pentecost or Babel?

  • May 13, 2008
    Methodists told to expect mixed prospects for the future

    Methodists in Britain have been told by their president that the future holds a mixed prospects for both renewal and demise for. The Rev Dr Martyn Atkins was speaking at a large Pentecost rally in the heart of the capital.

  • November 8, 2007
    Pentecostal leader greets world Christian gathering as a new beginning

    A prominent US Pentecostal leader has hailed a world gathering that has been described as bringing together the broadest range of Christian traditions ever assembled at a global meeting, saying that it is "a new Pentecost".