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Ecumenical delegation visits Armenia

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WCC delegation witnesses Azerbaijani forces shelling of Armenian enclave

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Rudelmar Bueno de Faria — ACT Alliance general secretary Rudelmar Bueno de Faria.

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ACT Alliance general secretary: “equity is not negotiable”

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Dr Mathews George Chunakara — Christian Conference of Asia (CCA) general secretary and newly elected moderator of the World Council of Churches Commission of the Churches on International Affairs (CCIA), Dr Mathews George Chunakara.

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Ecumenical Asia's 15th General Assembly looks to emerging challenges

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WCC general secretary visits India for Christian Conference of Asia assembly

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portrait Patti Talbot — Patti Talbot, Team Leader of the Global Partnership Program at the The United Church of Canada.

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A journey through advocacy, women's leadership, and the Korea peace appeal

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25 June 2023, Geneva, Switzerland: Birthday cake pictured as the World Council of Churches central committee – gathered in Geneva on 21-27 June 2023 for its first full meeting following the WCC 11th Assembly in Karlsruhe in 2022 – celebrates 75 years since the founding of the Council in 1948.

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WCC delegation witnesses Azerbaijani forces shelling of Armenian enclave

25 September 2023
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WCC to host screening of film “Our Land of Olives and Vines”

27 September 2023
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Brazilian university first in the Global South certified as “Blue University”

27 September 2023

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Vanesa Silva de Soza (left) and Yulimara Machin da Silva, both 8, in the rain in the Esperança Sustainable Development Project, where Sister Dorothy Stang, a U.S. nun, was murdered for her defense of the forest and the landless poor.

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Season of Creation 2023

01 September - 04 October 2023
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Exhibition “Bethlehem Reborn – Palestine – The Wonders of the Nativity”

12 September - 05 October 2023

Ecumenical Center, Geneva, Switzerland

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Screening of film “Our Land of Olives and Vines”

04 October 2023

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Executive Committee meeting

08 - 14 November 2023

Nigeria

Oil painting - The First Ecumenical Council — The First Ecumenical Council - oil painting (XVIII сentury) in the Saint Sophia Cathedral, Kyiv, Ukraine.

Nicaea 2025

Commemorating 1700th anniversary of the first Ecumenical Council at Nicaea

The Ecumenical Prayer Cycle

Prayer is at the very heart of the ecumenical movement. Jesus prayed that we – his followers – may all be one. When we pray with and for one another, we can feel God’s gift of unity.

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Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Peru

23 - 30 September 2023

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Green village, Geneva, Switzerland

Green Village - Go further, go together

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