Some 70 religious brothers from all over the world are kneeling in long rows at the heart of the Church of Reconciliation, their white robes touching the ground. They sing softly, their masked voices ...

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.

Pope Francis urged young people attending the 46th European Meeting organized by the ecumenical monastic community Taizé to “dare to build a different world, a world of listening, dialogue, and ...

The Taizé community is an ecumenical monastic order with a strong devotion to peace and justice through prayer and meditation. The Taizé community is an ecumenical monastic order with a strong ...

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 ...

The brothers of the ecumenical Taize community said they have received five reports of sexual assaults on minors committed by three of their members in a period from the 1950s to the 1980s. All of the ...

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 ...

The prior of Taizé has said that his community sees how young people are longing to meet together again in Christian fellowship as France and other European countries remain under strict lockdowns ...

Taize, in the south of Burgundy, France, is the home of an international, ecumenical community founded there in 1941 by Brother Roger. The brothers of Taize make a life commitment to sharing all ...

I cherish the Taizé community in France for its blend of meditative silences and simple chants that sound like echoes of a ...

The stabbing of a 90-year-old monk would be extraordinary at any time. But Brother Roger, the founder of Taize who was killed on Tuesday, leaves a legacy which is felt in churches all over the world.

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.