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The Dicastery for Promoting Interreligious Dialogue is hosting a conference in Rome on the importance of women building a culture of interreligious encounter.

Fr Joshtrom Isaac Kureethadam helps coordinate the Sector on Ecology and Creation in the Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development at the Vatican in Rome. He is among those planning activities during a special year, running from 24 May 2020 to 24 May 2021, to commemorate the fifth anniversary of the Laudato Si’ encyclical.

What else could your family, your parish, your community do to respond to the needs of migrants and refugees arriving in your country? Representatives of many different churches met in Rome in September to discuss that practical question, as well as respond to the broader challenge of how people of faith can combat the rising tide of racism, xenophobia and nationalist policies that increasingly target vulnerable migrants and asylum seekers.

Pope Francis met on 20 September with leaders of different Christian churches who have been taking part in a Rome meeting on combating racism and xenophobia, saying he hoped their encounter would give rise to many other such shared initiatives.

El papa Francisco se reunió el 20 de septiembre con los dirigentes de diversas iglesias que participaban en una reunión en Roma sobre la lucha contra el racismo y la xenofobia. Durante la audiencia, el papa dijo que esperaba que esta conferencia diera lugar a muchas otras iniciativas conjuntas de este tipo.

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.

Ten weeks after Pope Francis visited the WCC in Geneva as “a pilgrim in quest of unity and peace,” church leaders of different churches representing the WCC and the Roman Catholic Church are meeting in Germany this week to continue their task of “walking, praying and working together.”

Diez semanas después de que el papa Francisco visitara el CMI en Ginebra, como “un peregrino en busca de la unidad y la paz”, los líderes eclesiales de diferentes iglesias que representan al CMI y a la Iglesia Católica se reúnen esta semana en Alemania para seguir “caminando, trabajando y orando juntos”.

The leaders of the Joint Working Group (JWG) between the Roman Catholic Church and the World Council of Churches met 24-27 May in Targoviste, Romania, to discuss cooperation in peace building and the ecumenical challenge and opportunity posed by migrants and refugees.

Los líderes del Grupo Mixto de Trabajo (GMT) entre la Iglesia Católica y el Consejo Mundial de Iglesias se reunieron del 24 al 27 de mayo en Targoviste (Rumanía) para discutir el tema cooperación en materia de consolidación de la paz y el desafío y la oportunidad ecuménicos que representan los migrantes y los refugiados.

“What is the role of churches in peace-building? How are they actually involved? Which are the ecumenical challenges, and especially which are the ecumenical opportunities that arise from joint efforts at peace building?” These were some of the questions on the table as the Executive of the Joint Working Group of the WCC and the Roman Catholic Church met in Dublin, Ireland on 24-26 April.

“¿Qué papel tienen las iglesias en la construcción de la paz? ¿De qué manera están participando en realidad? ¿Cuáles son los desafíos ecuménicos, y sobre todo, cuáles son las oportunidades ecuménicas que surgen de los esfuerzos conjuntos encaminados a consolidar la paz?”. Estas fueron algunas de las preguntas sobre la mesa cuando la ejecutiva del Grupo Mixto de Trabajo (GMT) entre la Iglesia Católica Romana y el Consejo Mundial de Iglesias (CMI) se reunió en Dublín (Irlanda) del 24 al 26 de abril.

Roman Catholic and WCC representatives are forging new ways of working together on today’s most pressing issues.

Representantes de la Iglesia Católica Romana y del CMI están creando nuevas maneras de colaborar en torno a los problemas más urgentes de nuestro tiempo.

Receiving the news that Pope Francis has appointed Cardinal Peter Turkson as president of the newly created dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development, the WCC expressed expectation to cooperation with the new structure, as it relates to several dimensions of work and cooperation with the Roman Catholic Church worldwide.

Future collaborative work of the Roman Catholic Church with the WCC was the focus of the latest meeting of executives of their Joint Working Group in Geneva.

Durante la última reunión del Grupo Mixto de Trabajo (GMT) celebrada en Ginebra del 11 al 12 de abril de 2016, el grupo ejecutivo se centró en las futuras labores de colaboración entre la Iglesia Católica Romana y el Consejo Mundial de Iglesias (CMI).

Implementation of the Paris Agreement on climate change sharpened discussion of the 2015 papal encyclical Laudato Si’ at a UN conference initiated by the Holy See and several permanent missions to the UN on 15 January in Geneva. Among the presenters were the president of the Pontifical Council of Justice and Peace, the apostolic nuncio to the United Nations and the WCC general secretary.

“Church leaders and other leaders of faith communities played a vital role in Paris,” said Rev. Dr Olav Fykse Tveit, general secretary of the WCC, in an interview during the week following the COP21 UN conference on climate change.

A WCC delegation visited Ireland from 28 November to 1 December to explore how the international ecumenical community may best support churches in the global fellowship and work together on the Pilgrimage of Justice and Peace.