Timeline of Christianity - 21st Century

21st Century

Main article: Christianity in the 21st century
  • 2001 The Way of the Master founded
  • 2003 the Mission Province is established in Church of Sweden: new era for confessional Lutheranism in Scandinavia.
  • 2005 Death of Pope John Paul II, election of Pope Benedict XVI
  • 2006 World Methodist Council voted unanimously to adopt the Joint Declaration on the Doctrine of Justification (July 18).
  • 2006 A film of the Gospel of Judas, a 2nd century Gnostic account of Judas discovered in the 1970s, is shown on TV.
  • 2007 The Creation Museum opens in Kentucky, United States.
  • 2007 The American Association of Lutheran Churches and LCMS declare pulpit and altar fellowship
  • 2007 The reunification of the Russian Orthodox Church after 80 years of schism (May 17).
  • 2008 Conservative Anglicans indicate that they plan to split from liberal Anglicans in "The Jerusalem Declaration"
  • 2009 Damien of Molokai canonized; apostle to lepers
  • 2009 the Minneapolis Churchwide Assembly of the ELCA on 21 August 2009, passed four ministry policy resolutions that would permit clergy in committed homosexual partnerships to be rostered leaders within the ELCA.
  • 2009 The Rosicrucian Fellowship, an international association of Esoteric Christian mystics, celebrates the centennial anniversary -- The Fraternity should remain secret one hundred years; the celebration ceremonies, on August 8 and November 13 at Mount Ecclesia, serve the purpose of heralding the revival of the Christian mystic path of the Rose Cross.
  • 2009 Varghese Payapilly Palakkappilly declared Servant of God.
  • 2009 Manhattan Declaration: A Call of Christian Conscience is issued, signed by over 150 American religious leaders.
  • 2010 Lutheran CORE creates North American Lutheran Church in schism from the ELCA
  • 2010 October 31 Attack on Baghdad church results in 52 deaths.
  • 2011 A church in Alexandria, Egypt is bombed, on January 1, 2011, killing 21 people, mostly Christians.
  • 2011 Martyrdom of Shahbaz Bhatti, Pakistani politician and the only Christian elected member of the National Assembly, who was an outspoken critic of Pakistan's blasphemy laws.

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