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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

Brother Matthew, the first Anglican prior of Taizé, embraces Brother Alois as he succeeds him as prior. Dec. 2, 2023. (Photo: Tamino Petelinšek/Taizé) When Roger Schutz, a Protestant minister from ...

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 ...

Redlands First United Methodist Church invites the community to a Taize service at 7:30 p.m. Sunday. The Taize service is a contemplative worship experience in the style of the Taize community of ...

Editor's note: This is the first of a two-part blog series. Click here to read part two. Recently, the ecumenical monastic community of Taizé celebrated three anniversaries. It marked 100 years since ...

The 90-year-old founder of the French-based Taize Christian ecumenical community has been stabbed to death at a prayer service. Police detained a woman after the assault on Swiss-born Roger Schutz, ...