Dr Susan Parry has turned her vision of the “AIDS-competent church” into a reality that has helped thousands of people across southern Africa and the rest of the world whose lives are affected by HIV.

Church communication needs to be personal and authentic, and that is why it has traditionally been centred on face-to-face contacts. Can the conversations going on in social media – as these are typically personal in style and build on relationships between individuals – be seen as a natural extension of this tradition? This question was put to the participants of the European Christian Internet Conference by Dr Thomas Zeilinger on Saturday, 18...

The year 2010 marked the centennial celebration of the World Missionary Conference of 1910 which took place in Edinburgh, Scotland, and has been a landmark in the quest for visible unity of the Christian church.

The Annual Review also looks at examples for creative networking in pursuit of justice and peace ahead of the International Ecumenical Peace Convocation, and at the November 2010 conference “Transforming Communities: Christians and...

The volatile and precarious situation of Christians in the Middle East was of deep concern to the members of the February 2011 meeting of the World Council of Churches (WCC) Central Committee, and it will be highlighted in an upcoming conference on Christians in the Middle East to be held in Greece.

Substantial information on torture and other human rights abuses was entrusted to the Brazilian attorney general at a ceremony in São Paulo on Tuesday 14 June. There was also a call for a national truth commission in Brazil to shed more light on past atrocities during the ceremony.

The general secretary of the World Council of Churches (WCC) the Rev. Dr Olav Fykse Tveit arrived Tuesday in São Paulo, Brazil for a six-day visit which includes the delivery of documents related to human rights issues during the military dictatorship from 1964 - 1985 and visits with Brazilian churches and Latin America ecumenical agencies.

Escalating violence against civilians in Sudan’s disputed South Kordofan State is leading to major humanitarian catastrophe with an estimated 300,000 people besieged, cut off from relief aid, and unable to escape fighting, according to a number of aid agencies and witnesses in the region.

Power from the Holy Spirit, drawing on “the uncreated energy of God” and revealing the Word of God in Jesus Christ, is the divine blessing for which Christians give thanks on the Sunday of Pentecost.

During a two-decade period of brutal dictatorship, in 1979, Brazilian church workers and dissenting lawyers found a loophole in the legal system allowing them to gather evidence of atrocities and other abuses committed by the military regime.

The general secretary of the World Council of Churches (WCC), the Rev. Dr Olav Fykse Tveit, has welcomed that in 2011 both eastern and western Christian traditions are marking Pentecost on the same day, and has urged a redoubling of efforts to reach a common date in the future.