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Commemorating the Armenian Genocide of 1915-23 was to have been the principal focus of the service of Sunday morning prayer on 15 November in the cathedral church of Saint-Pierre at the summit of Geneva’s old town. Following terror attacks in Beirut and Paris killing and wounding hundreds of civilians over the preceding days, the prayers of the Protestant Church of Geneva and the WCC Executive Committee took on a new dimension.

La conmemoración del Genocidio Armenio de 1915-1923 iba a ser el tema central del servicio de oración de la mañana del 15 de noviembre en la iglesia catedral de San Pedro, ubicada en la cima del casco antiguo de Ginebra. Tras los ataques terroristas de los días precedentes en Beirut y París, en los que cientos de civiles fueron asesinados o heridos, las oraciones de la Iglesia Protestante de Ginebra y el Comité Ejecutivo del Consejo Mundial de Iglesias tomaron otra dimensión.

The WCC Executive Committee has strongly condemned the latest terror attacks in Paris and Beirut.

El Consejo Mundial de Iglesias ha condenado enérgicamente los últimos atentados terroristas en París y Beirut.

Bombings in a crowded civilian shopping area in Beirut, Lebanon, have been responded to by both the Middle East Council of Churches and the WCC with expressions of sympathy, outrage and continued resolve to work for peace and stability in the Middle Eastern nation.

El Consejo de Iglesias de Oriente Medio y el Consejo Mundial de Iglesias han respondido al atentado ocurrido en una zona comercial abarrotada de civiles en Beirut, el Líbano, manifestando su solidaridad, su indignación y su invariable determinación de trabajar por la paz y la estabilidad en este país de Oriente Medio.

Addressing a Council for World Mission Theological Colloquium in the Palestinian city of Bethlehem, the head of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Jordan and the Holy Land and president of the Lutheran World Federation affirmed the “need of a spirituality that helps us remain steadfast, that gives us the courage to act not with hatred and revenge, but in the pursuit of peace based on justice”.

Cardinal Kurt Koch of the Roman Catholic Church, president of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity, has granted an interview to WCC News. The conversation took place at the Global Christian Forum in Tirana, Albania where 150 high level leaders and representatives of various church traditions from more than 60 countries gathered to listen and learn from one another and to stand in solidarity with churches and Christians experiencing discrimination and persecution in the world today.

El cardenal católico Kurt Koch, presidente del Pontificio Consejo para la Unidad de los Cristianos, ha concedido una entrevista a Noticias del CMI, un medio de comunicación del CMI. La conversación tuvo lugar en el marco del Foro Cristiano Mundial celebrado en Tirana (Albania), que reunió a 150 dirigentes y representantes de alto nivel de varias tradiciones cristianas de más de 60 países con el fin de escucharse mutuamente y aprender unos de otros, así como de expresar su solidaridad con las iglesias y los cristianos del mundo que actualmente sufren discriminación y persecución.

“I write in a moment of great sadness, extending my deep and heartfelt condolences for all those who died in the tragic airplane crash occurring in the Sinai desert in the early morning of October 31,” wrote WCC general secretary Rev. Dr Olav Fykse Tveit in a letter of condolence addressed to His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia.

Today 35 bishops and church leaders from 20 countries gathered in Munich, Germany to discuss the refugee situation and the role of the churches in Europe.

An international conference held at the invitation of the Foreign Minister of the Hellenic Republic, Nikos Kotzias, has gathered around 70 prominent religious, political and academic figures in Athens, Greece, this week.

It is raining. It is cold and windy. Autumn is in the air in northern Greece. We have just arrived at the Idomeni refugee camp in northern Greece, on the border between Greece and the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM). The fast-approaching winter poses as great a threat to the refugees as do the smugglers. In the worst case, winter means death.

Llueve, hace frío y sopla el viento. El otoño se siente en el aire en el norte de Grecia. Acabamos de llegar al campo de refugiados de Idomeni, al norte de Grecia, en la frontera entre Grecia y la Antigua República Yugoslava de Macedonia. La llegada inminente del invierno supone una amenaza tan seria para los refugiados como los traficantes. En el peor de los casos el invierno significa la muerte.

The WCC general secretary Rev. Dr Olav Fykse Tveit has expressed deep concern over the renewed wave of violence in Jerusalem. In a letter to WCC member churches in Palestine and Israel, he expressed solidarity with the churches and peoples of the land, and affirmed WCC’s commitment to justice and peace in Palestine and Israel.

To achieve just peace in the Middle East, “it is very adequate to focus on what would maintain and reinforce the cultural and religious diversity that has distinguished this region for long centuries,” said the WCC general secretary.

“Como comunidad de iglesias del mundo estamos firmemente decididos a apoyar las iniciativas a favor de la paz justa en toda la región de Oriente Medio”, dijo el Rev. Dr. Olav Fykse Tveit, Secretario General del Consejo Mundial de Iglesias (CMI).

In an official statement issued on 12 October, the WCC has expressed grave concern over the dramatic escalation of the conflict in Syria.

En un comunicado oficial publicado el 12 de octubre, el CMI manifestó su gran preocupación por la trágica escalada del conflicto de Siria.

It was a day of “looking forward” when church leaders, journalists and communications experts gathered outside Beirut on 11 September for the one-day communications workshop at the General Secretariat of the Catholic Schools in Lebanon.