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El Comité Central del Consejo Mundial de Iglesias (CMI) expresó su constante preocupación en relación con dos importantes crisis territoriales en el Mediterráneo Oriental: los conflictos territoriales en Palestina e Israel y en Chipre. “Estos conflictos por motivos políticos han dado lugar a ocupaciones ilegales que duran desde hace décadas”, dice una nota publicada por el órgano rector.

The WCC central committee expressed continuous concern about two significant territorial crises in the eastern Mediterranean: those within Palestine and Israel, and those within Cyprus. “These politically driven conflicts have resulted in illegal occupations that have spanned decades,” reads a minute released by the governing body.

Archbishop Chrysostomos II, head of the Church of Cyprus died on 7 November at age 81 after a long battle with cancer.

Una consulta interortodoxa previa a la Asamblea celebrada la semana pasada afirmó la importancia primordial del amor y reiteró “el llamado a la unidad, la reconciliación, la justicia y la paz”, según se puede leer en el comunicado publicado conjuntamente por los cincuenta participantes, entre los que figuraban delegados de veinte iglesias ortodoxas calcedonias y ortodoxas orientales.

An Inter-Orthodox Pre-Assembly held last week affirmed “the utmost importance of love” and a “call for unity, reconciliation, justice, and peace,” according to a communique jointly released from the 50 participants, which included delegates from 20 Eastern and Oriental Orthodox churches.

El anfitrión local y líder de la Iglesia de Chipre, el arzobispo Crisóstomos II, dio la bienvenida a los miembros de la preasamblea interortodoxa del Consejo Mundial de Iglesias (CMI) en su residencia de Nicosia, Chipre, el 12 de mayo, fiesta de San Epifanio. En la reunión se reconocieron las contribuciones de la Iglesia de Chipre al movimiento ecuménico, así como la aspiración de las iglesias a ver una isla unida, pues está dividida como resultado de la invasión turca en 1974.

Local host and head of the Church of Cyprus, Archbishop Chrysostomos II, welcomed members of the World Council of Churches (WCC) Inter-Orthodox Pre-Assembly at his residence in Nicosia, Cyprus, on 12 May, the Feast of Saint Epiphanius. The meeting acknowledged contributions from the Church of Cyprus to the ecumenical movement, as well as the aspiration of churches to see a united island, partitioned as result of the Turkish invasion in 1974.

Las iglesias ortodoxas se han reunido en Chipre esta semana para preparar la 11ª Asamblea del Consejo Mundial de Iglesias (CMI), así como para orar y reflexionar juntas sobre cómo mantener el diálogo abierto en medio de los graves desafíos que afronta el mundo.

Orthodox churches convened in Cyprus this week to prepare for the World Council of Churches (WCC) 11th Assembly, as well as to pray and reflect together on how to keep dialogue open amid the world’s grave challenges.

It has been 46 years since the Turkish invasion of Cyprus led to the partitioning of the island, the northern third inhabited by Turkish Cypriots and the southern two-thirds by Greek Cypriots, whose government is internationally recognized. The August 1974 ceasefire line became a United Nations buffer zone, along which Cyprus remains divided.

Upon completion of a meeting in Cyprus on 21-22 January, the Executive Committee of the Middle East Council of Churches released a statement by members who came from Cyprus, Egypt, Syria, Lebanon, Iraq, Jordan, and Palestine.

Salpy Eskidjian Weiderud, leader of the Religious Track of the Cyprus Peace Process, received an International Religious Freedom Award from the US Department of State on 17 July. She paused to speak with WCC Communication with a word about what has inspired her life’s work for peace.

Salpy Eskidjian Weiderud, leader of the Religious Track of the Cyprus Peace Process, has received an International Religious Freedom Award from the US Department of State. The awards “honor extraordinary advocates of religious freedom from around the world” and will be presented on 17 July in Washington, D.C.