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.

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 ...

CHICAGO (RNS) Every year, some 100,000 pilgrims trek to the Taize ecumenical community in France where the biggest attraction is the music, a throwback — way, way back, about 1,500 years or so — to ...

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 ...

Brother Alois Leser, prior of the Taize ecumenical community in France, is pictured before an encounter at the World Council of Churches’ ecumenical center in Geneva in this June 21, 2018, file photo.

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 ...

Young people feeling anxious about life in the modern world could benefit from a deeper understanding of friendship, the head of the Taizé Community said in an interview with America on Wednesday. “We ...

BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) -- Some community members still feel the effects of the covid pandemic - including the Taizé community. Now they say they are ready to rebuild. Taizé is a style of worship dating ...

While many of the things done every Sunday will remain in place, including the celebration of the Lord’s Supper, this Sunday the First Christian Church will explore the Taizé style of worship during ...

Every year, about 100,000 pilgrims trek to the Taize community's headquarters in France. (RNS/Courtesy Taize Media) CHICAGO-- Every year, about 100,000 pilgrims trek to the Taize ecumenical community ...