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Rev. Fr Dr Lawrence Iwuamadi is dean of the Ecumenical Institute, the graduate school which opened its academic year this week. Below, Iwuamadi reflects on the arrival of new students at the Ecumenical Institute during this remarkable time.

Alumni from the World Council of Churches Ecumenical Institute Bossey who live in Thailand are continuing to foster ecumenical activities and relations. Every year for a decade, they have offered a local orientation for new students from Thailand who are headed to Bossey.

Former Bossey student Rev. Jianmei Jing who works at the Jingling Protestant Church in Hongkou near Shanghai in China has shown that masking your intention can be a truly Christian act. At significant sacrifice during the current COVID-19 pandemic when they were in short supply, she managed to get hold of 300 face masks and sent them to the Bossey community who she knew needed them in Switzerland.

As of January 2020, the WCC has relaunched its Sarah Chakko Scholarship Fund. The fund was first established in 1998, at the end of the Ecumenical Decade of Solidarity with Women, aiming to promote the education of women for leadership competencies for the ecumenical movement.

Each year students from all over the world arrive at Bossey near Geneva for a three-month language training course to pave their way for ecumenical studies that follow on straight after. “The title captures the goal of the course,” says Father Lawrence Iwuamadi, the Nigerian priest who studied at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome and is academic dean of the Ecumenical Institute.

Ob als einzelne Gläubige oder als Gemeinschaft: Es ist unsere gemeinsame Aufgabe, uns für die Einheit der Christen einzusetzen, sagt Melanio L. Aoanan. Der philippinische Ausbilder ruft zu einer klaren Vision für die ökumenische Ausbildung auf, die auf das 21. Jahrhundert zugeschnitten ist.

Whether as individual believers or as a community, it is our collective task to advocate for Christian unity, says Melanio L. Aoanan from the Philippines. A clear vision for religious and ecumenical theological education is needed that is relevant in the 21st century.

Ya sea individualmente, como creyentes, o como comunidad, es nuestra tarea colectiva defender la unidad de los cristianos, dice Melanio L. Aoanan. El educador filipino reclama una perspectiva clara de la educación ecuménica que sea relevante en el siglo XXI.

Que ce soit en tant qu'individus ou en tant que communauté, il est de notre devoir collectif de défendre l'unité des chrétiens, déclare Melanio L. Aoanan. L'éducateur philippin appelle à une vision claire de la formation œcuménique qui soit pertinente au XXIe siècle.

Les relations entre les catholiques et les protestants au niveau local en Indonésie orientale ne sont pas aussi complexes qu’à l’occasion de débats sur le dogme à des échelons plus élevés de l’Église, déclare une pasteure de l’Église protestante des Moluques.

A livello locale, le relazioni tra cattolici e protestanti in Indonesia Orientale non sono così complesse come parlare di dogmi a livelli clericali più alti, dice un pastore della chiesa protestante di Maluku.

Im Osten Indonesiens seien die Beziehungen zwischen katholischen und protestantischen Gläubigen auf lokaler Ebene nicht so komplex wie die Gespräche über Dogmen auf höheren kirchlichen Ebenen, sagt eine Pastorin der Protestantischen Kirche der Molukken.

Relations between Catholics and Protestants at the local level in East Indonesia are not as complex as talking about dogma at higher church levels, says a pastor from the Protestant Church in Maluku.

Las relaciones entre católicos y protestantes a nivel local en Indonesia oriental no son tan complejas como el hecho de hablar sobre el dogma a niveles más altos de la iglesia, comenta una pastora de la Iglesia Protestante de Maluku.

Das Ökumenische Institut in Bossey, das Papst Franziskus am Donnerstag, 21. Juni, im Rahmen seiner Pilgerfahrt zum Ökumenischen Rat der Kirchen in Genf besuchen wird, ist eine Ideenwerkstatt, in der zukünftige Wege zur christlichen Einheit erschlossen werden.
Das nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg zur Förderung von Dialog und Begegnungen zwischen Angehörigen der verschiedenen christlichen Kirchen gegründete Institut ist in einem eleganten Château aus dem 18. Jahrhundert beheimatet, von dem aus man einen Blick über den Genfersee und das Alpenpanorama genießt.

The Ecumenical Institute Bossey, which Pope Francis visits on Thursday, 21 June, as part of his pilgrimage to the World Council of Churches in Geneva, is a workshop of ideas, where the future path toward Christian unity is being mapped out.

El Instituto Ecuménico de Bossey –que el papa Francisco visitará el jueves 21 de junio durante su peregrinación al Consejo Mundial de Iglesias en Ginebra– es un semillero de ideas donde se está trazando el futuro camino hacia la unidad cristiana.

L’Institut œcuménique de Bossey, qui recevra la visite du pape François le jeudi 21 juin, dans le cadre de son pèlerinage au Conseil œcuménique des Églises à Genève, est un atelier d’idées, où l’avenir de l’unité des chrétiens se dessine.

*Di Philippa Hitchen
L’Istituto ecumenico di Bossey, che Papa Francesco visiterà giovedì 21 giugno, come tappa del suo pellegrinaggio al Consiglio ecumenico delle chiese a Ginevra, è un laboratorio di idee in cui viene tracciato il futuro percorso verso l’unità dei cristiani.

Applications are now open for YATRA (Youth in Asia Training for Religious Amity) 2018, an inter-religious training programme of the WCC. The intensive training course, held annually since 2014, seeks to enable young Christian leaders from Asian churches to contribute towards the building up of just, harmonious and peaceable communities by equipping them for ministries of justice and peace from an inter-religious perspective.