The challenge of pluralism and peace the changing relationships among the churches in Colombia

Abstract

This work is a fruit of a field research realized in Colombia. It presents a short history of the Colombian ecumenism, the changeable relations between the church and the state, the challenges of the education and what implied for the ecumenical Colombian movement the receipt of the II Vatican Council. This article helps to understand the complexity of situations in Latin America, to know the variety of ecumenical works in Colombia and to know that in this country there is something more than violence of all kinds. There appears that in the recent panorama of plurality, the Protestants have to learn that their labor is not against the catholicism, and the Catholics to learn that so much of the traditional political institutions must not depend, and both to trusting more in Christ and witness him in a united way.