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In: Volume 1 Dawn of Ecumenism | Part III. Beginnings: Movements Become a Movement previous chapter 1 Introduction Just as the wmc in Edinburgh in 1910 had been for the rest of the world,1 the ccwla (Panama, 1916) is regarded as the birthplace of the Latin American ecumenical movement2 in its first intra-Protestant phase, by then termed “movement of missionary cooperation.” The literature available makes it sufficiently clear that the Panama Congress was largely an effect of what had happened in Edinburgh, but it is a little more complex to distinguish what is a myth from what really happened, in the generally accepted interpretation of the kind of causal relationship that existed between both events. According to the generally accepted interpretation, the Panama Congress was organized by North American missionary societies, which were diss…