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ecumenical

(= cosmopolitan, oecumenical, universal, worldwide) of worldwide scope or applicability an issue of cosmopolitan import the shrewdest political and ecumenical comment of our time — Christopher Morley universal experience (= oecumenical) concerned with promoting unity among churches or religions ecumenical thinking ecumenical activities the ecumenical movement

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Even in Europe women didn't have souls until the Ecumenical Council of 620.
The Ecumenical Council has given the Pope permission to become a nun. But only on Fridays.
The Flagstaff Independent Bank of Arizona was ripped off last week. by a terrorist group called the Ecumenical Liberation Army.
The Ecumenical Liberation Army is not the one that kidnapped Patty Hearst?
This is the Ecumenical Liberation Army.
We've got a bunch of hobgoblin radicals, the Ecumenical Liberation Army. who go around taking home movies of themselves robbing banks.
I'm interested in doing a weekly dramatic series. based on the Ecumenical Liberation Army. and the first show has to be a two-hour special on Mary Ann Gifford.
I want a lot more film like the bank rip-off the Ecumenical sent in.
The Ecumenical Liberation Army is an ultra-left sect. creating political confusion. with wildcat violence and pseudo-insurrectionary acts. which the Communist Party does not endorse.
One vast and ecumenical holding company. for whom all men will work to serve a common profit. in which all men will hold a share of stock. all necessities provided. all anxieties tranquilized. all boredom amused.
The assassins were members of the Ecumenical Liberation Army. two of whom were apprehended.
Ecumenical Edwards, they call me.
That would be an ecumenical matter!
That would be an ecumenical matter.
The Ecumenical Council has given the Pope permission to become a nun.
The Flagstaff Independent Bank of Arizona was ripped off last week by a terrorist group called the Ecumenical Liberation Army.
The Ecumenical Liberation Army. That's not the one that kidnapped Patty Hearst?
No, no. That's the Symbionese Liberation Army. This is the Ecumenical Liberation Army.
Look, we've got a bunch of hobgoblin radicals called the Ecumenical Liberation Army who go around taking home movies of themselves robbing banks.
I'm interested in a weekly dramatic series based on the Ecumenical Liberation Army.
Let me tell you what I want. I want a lot more film like the bank rip-off the Ecumenical sent in.
The Ecumenical Liberation Army is an ultra-left sect creating political confusion with wildcat violence and pseudo-insurrectionary acts which the Communist Party does not endorse.
The assassins were members of a terrorist group called the Ecumenical Liberation Army, two of whom were apprehended.
They were offered up as a sacrifice to the god of ecumenical politics.
It's important at times like these that we remain ecumenical.
Reverend, I've been thinking, this might be a good time for an ecumenical service.
Disgraced when they didn't, he fled and tried a more ecumenical scam: credit card fraud.
I demand to be included in the ecumenical service.
Ecumenical!
It was ecumenical.
Really ecumenical.
And to strengthen this new Christian tradition Constantine held a famous ecumenical gathering known as the Council of Nicaea.
I mean, that's not a very ecumenical statement.

News and current affairs

As the first Slavic pope in history, John Paul II felt a special mission to liberate the Slavic peoples from communism and to deepen ecumenical dialogue with the predominantly Orthodox churches of Eastern Europe.
What better pretext could there be for an ecumenical meeting?
Soon after, and more importantly, the Patriarch raised the level of Orthodoxy's representation at an ecumenical prayer called by Pope John Paul II in Assisi on January 24 th.
On the other side of the balance sheet, and despite his global outreach, Pope John Paul II cannot be described as particularly ecumenical.
In particular, the Ecumenical Patriarchate in Istanbul could be a great example of peaceful coexistence among Christians and Muslims.
For Orthodoxy, the Ecumenical Patriarchate is in many ways the equivalent of Mecca.
The first Turkish ruler to reign over the Ecumenical Patriarchate was Mehmed II, the Ottoman Sultan who conquered Constantinople in 1453.
If one cause of the repression of the Ecumenical Patriarchate is nationalism, though, the other one is the other pillar of the Kemalist ideology: secularism.
The Ecumenical Patriarch himself acknowledged in a recent interview that the AKP has shown goodwill on this issue.

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