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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...