On International Women’s Day, World Council of Churches moderator of the central committee Bishop Dr Heinrich Bedford-Strohm shared a special video message on his Facebook page about an important woman in the Bible.
World Council of Churches general secretary Rev. Prof. Dr Jerry Pillay extended sincere birthday congratulations to Cardinal Walter Kasper, expressing gratitude for the cardinal’s tireless service for Christian unity, particularly for his leadership role in the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity.
“Dawn will never come if the heralds of dawn keep silence,” said an anonymous 19th century woman on the relationship between women and the church. That quotation has greatly inspired the International Association of Women Ministers, which is celebrating 103 years of existence this year.
Karlsruhe, eine Stadt, die vor über 300 Jahren ohne Mauern gebaut wurden war, offen für Freunde und Gäste — in einer Zeit, als andere Städte sich noch hinter ihren Befestigungsanlagen versteckten — hieß Menschen aus der ganzen Welt zu Tagungen zur Vorbereitung auf die 11. Vollversammlung des Ökumenischen Rates der Kirchen (ÖRK) willkommen. Diese Vorbereitungstagungen bringen starke Aufrufe zur Vollversammlung.
Karlsruhe, a city built over 300 hundred years ago without walls, open to friends and guests —at a time where other cities still hid behind their fortifications —welcomed people from all over the world to four pre-assemblies that are bringing forward powerful calls to the 11th Assembly of the World Council of Churches (WCC).
Bei einer Plenarsitzung im Rahmen einer Tagung zur Vorbereitung auf die anstehende Vollversammlung des Ökumenischen Rates der Kirchen (ÖRK) wurde am Montagmorgen, dem 29. August, eine christliche Vision für gerechte Gemeinschaften für Frauen und Männer aus vielen verschiedenen geographischen und kirchlichen Perspektiven betrachtet. Die Veranstaltung zur Vorbereitung auf die Vollversammlung fand vom 29. bis 30. August direkt vor der 11. ÖRK-Vollversammlung in Karlsruhe, Deutschland, statt.
A Christian vision of a Just Community of Women and Men was approached from many geographical and church perspectives at a pre-assembly plenary session on the morning of Monday 29 August. The pre-assembly is being held 29-30 August in advance of the 11th Assembly of the World Council of Churches (WCC) in Karlsruhe, Germany.
Vier vorbereitende Tagungen zur Vollversammlung des Ökumenischen Rats der Kirchen (ÖRK) stehen in den Startlöchern, um mehreren Hundert Menschen, die sich aufrichtig über ihre Überlegungen und Lebensherausforderungen austauschen möchten, einen sicheren Raum zu geben. Dazu gehören die vorbereitende Tagung der indigenen Völker, das Ökumenische Treffen junger Menschen, die Tagung des Ökumenischen Aktionsbündnis von und für Menschen mit Behinderungen und die Tagung zu gerechten Gemeinschaften für Frauen und Männer.
Four World Council of Churches (WCC) pre-assemblies are about to convene, drawing hundreds of people eager to, in a safe space, share their honest reflections and life challenges. The pre-assemblies include Indigenous Peoples, Ecumenical Youth Gathering, Ecumenical Disability Advocates Network, and Just Community of Women and Men.
A “Go for Gender Justice” initiative was launched by the Protestant Church in Germany in Berlin on 1 February with calls for overcoming gender clichés and traditional role models. Germany’s "First Lady,” the judge Elke Büdenbender called on women and men to fight together for social change. Under the motto "Go for Gender Justice,” nine regional churches invited people to move together toward gender equality.
Dr Agnes Abuom, moderator of the World Council of Churches (WCC) central committee, shared a message with the Conference of the World Council of Religious Leaders on Faith and Diplomacy: Generations in Dialogue, being held 4-7 October in Lindau, Germany.
A new report and resource kit to address hateful content online has been published by WACC Europe, the European region of the World Association for Christian Communication.
Beate Fagerli, World Council of Churches (WCC) assembly coordinator, answers the most frequently asked questions about the upcoming WCC 11th Assembly in 2021.
Conversations at the World Council of Churches (WCC) exhibition booth at the Kirchentag showed there is a growing interest in ecumenical movement among German churches. The topics of a particularly high interest were the Thursdays in Black campaign and studies at the Ecumenical institute in Bossey.
Geschichten, Musik und viele andere Ausdrucksweisen der Solidarität prägten einen lebendigen „Donnerstag in Schwarz“ auf dem Deutschen Evangelischen Kirchentag. Von religiösen Führungspersonen bis zu vorbeigehenden Passantinnen und Passanten sprachen zahlreiche Personen Worte der Unterstützung und Ermutigung für die Kampagne für eine Welt ohne Vergewaltigung und Gewalt.
Stories, music, and many other expressions of solidarity marked a lively observation of Thursdays in Black at the German Protestant church festival. From religious leaders to passersby, many offered words of support and encouragement for the campaign for a world free from rape and violence.
On 20 June at Kirchentag, the thriving Protestant church festival in Germany, #ThursdaysInBlack, the global campaign for a world without rape and violence, will take the stage during a noon presentation.
Die Weltvereinigung für Christliche Kommunikation (WACC) gehörte zu den Teilnehmern des DW Global Media Forums, das vom 27. – 28. Mai in Bonn, Deutschland stattfand.
Mehr als 2.000 Medienprofis, Entscheider und Multiplikatoren aus Politik und Zivilgesellschaften, Kultur und Bildung, Wirtschaft und Wissenschaft aus 140 Ländern haben an der Konferenz teilgenommen.
The World Association for Christian Communication (WACC) was featured in the DW Global Media Forum held 27-28 May in Bonn, Germany. More than 2,000 media professionals, policymakers, and movers from politics and civil society, culture and education, business and science – representing 140 countries – attended the conference.
At a time of increased divisions within churches and within rapidly changing societies, Christians are called, more urgently than ever before, to model the values of reconciliation, justice and peace. That’s why a group of theologians and church leaders from different denominations have been meeting near the German city of Augsburg to work together on two documents calling for much closer collaboration in the tasks of peace-building and the care of migrants and refugees.
