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 ...

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.

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.

Young people feeling anxious about life in the modern world could benefit from a deeper understanding of friendship, the head of the Taizé Community said in an interview with America on Wednesday. “We ...

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 ...

Titled ‘Trust on earth’, the fifth pilgrimage organised by the Taizé community took place in Makaty City (Manila). More than 3,000 people from around the world participated in the event, which began ...

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 ...

This summer, some 100,000 young people from around the world – mostly between the age of 15 and 30 – will gather outside a village in the middle of France. They've been arriving here since June, to ...

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 ...