Glimmerings

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November 3, 2004

Ecumenical News International Tenth Anniversary

ENI was launched in September 1994 as a cooperative venture by the World Council of Churches, the Lutheran World Federation, the World Alliance of Reformed Churches and the Conference of European Churches.

"The WCC, as a founder and the main sponsor of ENI, rejoices in the first 10 years of work of ENI," says the Rev. Samuel Kobia, WCC general secretary. "We remain fully committed to the vision of an independent, professional, ecumenical news service as an indispensable resource for the witness and mutual understanding of the Christian fellowship worldwide."

The news agency is governed by a charter agreed by the four partners which sets down ENI's aims of honesty, impartiality and accuracy, and guarantees it editorial independence.

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But, says Lawrence, ENI is of greater significance than simply as a supplier of news.

"ENI is a vital mission tool in the battle to keep alive 'the rumour of God' in what we loosely call secularised societies," says Lawrence. "In my own cultural context, the level of disinterest in organized religion has reached quite staggering proportions," he says, adding that not one mass circulation tabloid newspaper in Britain has a specialist religious correspondent, while the less widely bought serious papers have drastically cut the resources and space devoted to religious material.

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