Samford University President, Dr. Andrew Westmoreland welcomes Baptist/Catholic ecumenical group to campus of SBC supported school

"In Birmingham Alabama, the buckle on the US Bible Belt, is being held the inaugural session in the International Baptist-Catholic Conversation from December 11-15. Hosted by the Beeson Divinity School at Samford University, this will be the first in a planned five-year series of meetings that have been called by the Baptist World Alliance and the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity."

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The joint commission was welcomed by Samford University President, Dr. Andrew Westmoreland, and Beeson Divinity School Dean, Dr. Timothy George. The joint commission was also welcomed by a number of faculty and administrators of both Beeson Divinity School and Samford University .



Other Baptist participants included Dr. Denton Lotz, General Secretary of the Baptist World Alliance, Rev. Dr. Neville Callam of Jamaica, Rev. Dr. Fred Deegbe, Calvary Baptist Church, of Ghana, Dr. Lilian Lim, President of Asia Baptist Graduate Theological Seminary of Singapore, Dr. Nora Lozano, Baptist University of the Americas of Texas, Professor Dr. Tomás Mackey, Baptist Seminary of Argentina, Dr. Fausto Vasconcelos, Director of the BWA Division of Study and Research, and Professor Tadeusz Zielinski, Christian Academy of Theology of Poland. Also present as observers were Dr. Curtis Freeman, Duke University Divinity School, North Carolina, and Dr. Alan Stanford, General Secretary, of the North American Baptist Fellowship.