“How bitterly she weeps!”
Lamentation is appropriate, even necessary, to recovering from the pandemic, says twenty-something British writer Annika Mathews in her moving meditation on the conquered and destroyed city of Jerusalem.
WCC fellowship invited to celebrate International Youth Day
World Council of Churches (WCC) interim general secretary Rev. Prof. Dr Ioan Sauca is inviting the global fellowship to take part in International Youth Day with a virtual celebration on 12 August. A new resource has also been released to help churches engage with young people and enhance their formation as Christian disciples.
In 1954, Dag Hammarskjöld had questions—and a vision—that resonate today
In an address entitled “An instrument of faith,” Dag Hammarskjöld, the second UN secretary-general, referred to churches as “the guardians of and spokesmen of the deepest beliefs and the loftiest dreams of man.”
Events
01 March - 15 August 2020 “A Light of Peace” prayer campaign for peace in Korea
20 - 24 July 2020 Executive Committee meeting (online)
17 - 28 August 2020 GEM School 2020: Ecumenical School on Governance, Economics and Management for an Economy of Life (now online)
13 - 18 November 2020 Executive Committee meeting
02 - 05 June 2021 Teaching Ecumenism – International Conference (postponed)
23 - 29 June 2021 Central Committee meeting
26 July - 14 August 2021 Interreligious Summer School Bossey