{"id":370372,"date":"2025-01-28T16:14:20","date_gmt":"2025-01-28T15:14:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/?p=370372"},"modified":"2025-01-28T16:17:21","modified_gmt":"2025-01-28T15:17:21","slug":"bishop-krause-1940-2024-brother-how-wonderful-it-is-that-we-meet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/bishop-krause-1940-2024-brother-how-wonderful-it-is-that-we-meet\/","title":{"rendered":"Bishop Krause (1940-2024): \u201cBrother, how wonderful it is that we meet\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In November 2018, during a gathering of Bishops from various Churches who are friends of the Focolare Movement, which took place near Stockholm, Sweden, Bishop Krause was interviewed by Irish journalist Susan Gately. She asked him what \u201cecumenism\u201d truly meant to him. As we conclude the celebration of t<em>he Week of Prayer for Christian Unity<\/em> in the northern hemisphere, we are publishing an excerpt of Bishop Krause\u2019s response that highlights his character, openness and passion for the ecumenical journey. <\/p>\n\n<p class=\"has-white-color has-vivid-cyan-blue-to-vivid-purple-gradient-background has-text-color has-background has-link-color wp-elements-70144a9056c824c50ac3dbd142c3c559\"><strong>\u201cCalled to Hope \u2013 Protagonists of Dialogue\u201d<\/strong> is the title of the Ecumenical Conference that will take place from March 26\u201329, 2025, in Castel Gandolfo (Rome, Italy). To register or learn more, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/CALLED_TO_HOPE-26-29-03-2025-inglese.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>download the flyer<\/strong><\/a>. <\/p>\n\n<div style=\"height:27px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n<p><em>Enable subtitles and select your preferred language.<\/em><\/p>\n\n<div style=\"height:32px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Bishop Krause (1940-2024): \u201cBrother, how wonderful it is that we meet\u201d\" width=\"1080\" height=\"608\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/X_JCA1-YATA?feature=oembed\"  allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The late German Lutheran Bishop Christian Krause, former President of the Lutheran World Federation (LWF), was a passionate advocate for ecumenism and the experience of unity in diversity and variety. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":370366,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"give_campaign_id":0,"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3195,3286],"tags":[3566,3636,3349,3196],"class_list":["post-370372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ecumenism","category-testimonianze-di-vita-en","tag-bishops-friends-of-the-focolare","tag-ecumenism-en","tag-notifiche-en","tag-ppg-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370372","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=370372"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370372\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/370366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=370372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=370372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=370372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}