The Third European Ecumenical Assembly Begun in Sibiu Romania

The event is hosted by Romania in the Transylvanian city of Sibiu.

The topics chalanged by more than 2500 official delagates from EUropean Churhces but not only are strucutred in nine Forums:
Forum 1: Unity
Forum 2: Spirituality
Forum 3: Witness
Forum 4: Europe
Forum 5: Religions
Forum 6: Migration
Forum 7: Creation
Forum 8: Justice
Forum 9: Peace

There will be the big challenges towards European policy.

Among the Churhc VIPs we notice the Vatican representative, Cardinal Walter Kasper, Russian Orthodox Church representative, Kirill, bishop of Smolensk and Kaliningrad; President of the Foreign Affairs department of the Russian Patriarchy, The melkite Patriarch Gregorios III.

The event will be attended by high European officials including Jose Manuel Barroso, the President of the Parliamentary Reunion of the Council of Europe, Rene van der Linden and Secretary General of the Council of Europe, Terry Davis.

The event is the third of the kind. The first European Ecumenical Assembly took place in 1989 at Bassel, Switzerland and the second, in 1997 at Gratz, Austria.