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Reading plan on the Youversion Bible app — Week of Prayer for Christian Unity resources are available on the Bible App by YouVersion, offering a daily Bible reading plan, prayers, and questions for reflection for the eight days from 18 to 25 January.

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Week of Prayer for Christian Unity 2026 invites Christians to one hope, one calling

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Un Geneva

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Service of Thanksgiving will mark 80th Anniversary of the UN inaugural meeting

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Arabic edition of “Toward a Common Date for Easter” now available

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176EDA20-06CC-44B8-B180-2F58BDA48029 — Zion Church, perched on the edge of Disko Bay in western Greenland, built in 1779.

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WCC: “people of Greenland have an inalienable right to self-determination”

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Peace process in Colombia: what does the future hold?

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Week of Prayer for Christian Unity 2026 invites Christians to one hope, one calling

14 January 2026
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WCC central committee moderator: let us open our hearts to unity

16 January 2026
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Service of Thanksgiving will mark 80th Anniversary of the UN inaugural meeting

16 January 2026

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Week of Prayer for Christian Unity

Resources for the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity 2026

Week of Prayer for Christian Unity

Events

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Week of Prayer for Christian Unity

18 - 25 January 2026
Worldwide
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Book launch: Preserving Armenian Heritage and Advancing Justice and Peace

21 January 2026

St Pierre Cathedral, Geneva, Switzerland

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Week of Prayer for Christian Unity: Ecumenical services in Geneva, Switzerland

21 - 22 January 2026

Geneva, Switzerland

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Ecumenical School on Governance, Economics, and Management for an Economy of Life (GEM School) 2026

17 - 28 August 2026

Panama City, Panama (Location TBC)

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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Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Yemen

17 - 24 January 2026

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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