The city of Paris and the entire Île-de-France region are the setting for the 48th European Meeting, a pilgrimage from Dec.
Even with 45,000 people -- mostly young adults -- gathered in St. Peter's Square, one could hear the sound of splashing water from the square's two decorative fountains. The hush was part of the ebb ...
Up to 15,000 people from 72 countries met in Paris for the forty-eighth European youth meeting of the ecumenical Taizé ...
After 18 years as head of the ecumenical monastic community Taizé, Brother Alois Loeser has chosen a successor. According to the community, after consulting other brothers, the French Catholic has ...
The Taizé Community, founded in the 1940s in France, is an ecumenical monastic community that has become synonymous with fostering peace and reconciliation among Christians. The meetings, held in ...
The brothers of the ecumenical Taize community said they have received five reports of sexual assaults on minors committed by three of their members in a period from the 1950s to the 1980s. All of the ...
Imagine the scene. Silence. Church lights dim. On the altar table and the floor and steps around it, dozens of candles flicker, some atop pillars of pink and purple, the Advent colors. In pews, 50 or ...
The enormous ecumenical impact of the Taizé community, with its haunting music and its tradition of silent prayer and meditative chant, is astonishing given that the community never promoted itself.
The Taizé community is an ecumenical monastic order with a strong devotion to peace and justice through prayer and meditation. The Taizé community is an ecumenical monastic order with a strong ...
Some 70 religious brothers from all over the world are kneeling in long rows at the heart of the Church of Reconciliation, their white robes touching the ground. They sing softly, their masked voices ...
The death of the 90-year-old founder of the Taizé Community in France at the hands of a woman wielding a knife shocked world Christian leaders. Roger Schutz was killed August 16 as he prayed during a ...