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Title: ELCA Participates in National Workshop on Christian Unity ELCA NEWS SERVICE - NEWSBRIEF April 24, 1996 NATIONAL WORKSHOP ON CHRISTIAN UNITY Ecumenical representatives and other interested members of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America will be among the hundreds attending the 1996 National Workshop on Christian Unity May 6-9 in Richmond, Va. The Lutheran Ecumenical Representatives Network, with members from each of the ELCA's 65 synods, will hold its annual meeting during the conference. A special plenary seminar will examine three ecumenical proposals on which the ELCA will vote in 1997: to establish full communion with the Episcopal Church; to establish full communion with three Reformed churches -- Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), Reformed Church in America and United Church of Christ -- and to declare that 16th-century condemnations of the Roman Catholic Church on the doctrine of justification no longer apply. Speakers will include Dr. Michael Root, an ELCA layman and director of the Institute for Ecumenical Research in Strasbourg, France. The National Workshop on Christian Unity is sponsored by the National Ecumenical Officers Association. The ELCA is one of several bodies involved, including: American Baptist Churches USA, Christian Church (Disciples of Christ), Episcopal Church, National Council of Churches of Christ in the U.S.A., Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), Roman and Eastern Catholic Churches, United Church of Christ and United Methodist Church. For information contact: Ann Hafften, Dir., ELCA News Service, (312) 380-2958; Frank Imhoff, Assoc. Dir., (312) 380-2955; Lia Christiansen, Asst. Dir., (312) 380-2956