Sibiu, Romania
Germany’s top Protestant bishop has urged a stepping up of efforts to allow Christians of all denominations to share in the eucharist together.

“We should not slacken in our efforts to find a solution to this issue,” Bishop Wolfgang Huber of the Evangelical Church in Germany said at the Third European Ecumenical Assembly in Sibiu on Sept. 5.

Gathered in the Romanian city were more than 2,000 participants from throughout Europe and from the continent’s main Christian traditions. “It can be seen just how urgent this issue is wherever you have people who belong to different churches in the same family, in ecumenical spiritual communities or who are linked in other walks of life or work with members of different Christian churches,” Bishop Huber said.