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Webinar on food insecurity brings “voice of the people” urging fundamental shift

A webinar on the global food crisis, responses, and innovations brought the voices of people from across the world in a frank assessment of what the human face of the crisis looks like—and why the world needs a fundamental shift in the way it manages food.

15 December 2022

Feature story

South Sudan education gets a boost, even as food shortages keep children out of school

South Sudan churches are playing a significant role in the country’s education, but food shortages are keeping millions of children out of school.

17 November 2022

Event

2022 Social Forum: Water for human rights and sustainable development

03 - 04 November 2022

A conference focusing on water for human rights and sustainable development will be held at the Palais des Nations in Geneva, Switzerland and online on 3-4 November.

Palais des Nations in Geneva, Switzerland

WCC reiterates right to life for migrants, decries lives lost in border crossings

As protests grow across the world over the senseless loss of migrants’ lives, the World Council of Churches (WCC) reiterated its call for the right to life for migrants, particularly in the wake of the tragic loss of lives at the Morocco-Spain border as well as in Texas (USA).

06 July 2022

WCC hones plans for conference commemorating 1700th anniversary of the first Ecumenical Council at Nicaea

The World Council of Churches Commission on Faith and Order is proposing a Sixth World Conference on Faith and Order in 2025, a year that will mark the 1700th anniversary of the first Ecumenical Council at Nicaea.

19 May 2022

World mourns loss of Archbishop Desmond Tutu

Today the world joins in mourning the passing of a towering figure in the struggle for freedom and for human dignity and rights.

30 December 2021

People of Greece pray for rain as their country and other parts of the world burn

Greeks have watched their country burn, knowing that the flames also consume many other parts of the world, says the Church of Greece.

19 August 2021

Interview

Defending the ‘blue soul of life’

Pedro Arrojo-Agudo, from Spain, is the United Nations (UN) special rapporteur on the human rights to safe drinking water and sanitation. In this interview with WCC News, he talks about the significance of these human rights, his plans and priorities for his mandate, and to that end, the role of faith, spirituality and ethics.

08 April 2021

WCC Faith and Order meeting harvests fruits of study groups

At the end of its biannual meeting, the World Council of Churches Commission on Faith and Order, in February, reported from its three study groups, which continue to look to future activities and dialogue with a sense of hope.

04 March 2021

WCC prayer service inspires us to "preach and heal on the borders of society”

An online prayer hosted by the World Council of Churches (WCC) brought together people from all over the world, including Rome, Andorra, Malta, Portugal, San Marino and Spain.

12 February 2021

Sermon

Sermon at Ecumenical Centre, Geneva, February 8th, 2021 (Mark 1:29-39)

A sermon by Luca Maria Negro, Baptist minister, President of the Federation of Protestant Churches in Italy, at the online prayer hosted by the World Council of Churches (WCC) that brought together people from all over the world, including Rome, Andorra, Malta, Portugal, San Marino and Spain.

12 February 2021

Ecumenical movement

Morning Prayer for Friday, 12 February 2021

Lord, our Saviour, we thank you for continuing to knock at our doors...

With the Ecumenical Prayer Cycle we pray for the churches and people of Andorra, Italy, Malta, Portugal, San Marino, Spain and Vatican City.

12 February 2021

Morning Prayer for Thursday, 11 February 2021

Lord our God, we give you thanks, because in your mercy you have come to us and made yourself one of us in Jesus Christ, so that we might be made one in you...

With the Ecumenical Prayer Cycle we pray for the churches and people of Andorra, Italy, Malta, Portugal, San Marino, Spain and Vatican City.

11 February 2021

Morning Prayer for Wednesday, 10 February 2021

Take, Lord, this day, all my liberty. Receive my memory, my understanding, my whole will, all that I have and possess...

With the Ecumenical Prayer Cycle we pray for the churches and people of Andorra, Italy, Malta, Portugal, San Marino, Spain and Vatican City.

10 February 2021

Morning Prayer for Tuesday, 9 February 2021

Jesus our Master, meet us while we walk the way...

With the Ecumenical Prayer Cycle we pray for the churches and people of Andorra, Italy, Malta, Portugal, San Marino, Spain and the Vatican City.

09 February 2021

O Lord, as we begin this day and week together in prayer, teach us to seek you and reveal yourself to us when we seek you. For we cannot seek you unless you first teach us, nor find you except you reveal yourself to us. Let us seek you in longing, and long for you in seeking; let us find you in love and love you in finding, O Jesus Christ, our Lord.

Morning Prayer for Monday, 8 February 2021

Lord, teach us to seek you and reveal yourself to us...

With the Ecumenical Prayer Cycle we pray for the churches and people of Andorra, Italy, Malta, Portugal, San Marino, Spain and Vatican City.

08 February 2021