The Global Christian Forum seeks to offer new opportunities for broadening and deepening encounters. It is especially intended to promote new relationships between and among Christian constituencies : 1) which have not been in conversation with one another; 2) who are in conversation with only a select group of partners or 3) who have engaged in existing ecumenical relationships. The Global Christian Forum is pursuing this goal through the creation of a ‘space’ where participants all meet on an equal basis, to foster mutual respect, and to explore and address together common concern.