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À Genève, 120 membres de communautés migrantes représentant diverses Églises locales ont participé à une journée d'information sur la prochaine Assemblée du Conseil œcuménique des Églises (COE), qui aura lieu à Busan, en République de Corée. Cette journée a été ponctuée de réflexions sur les questions de la justice et de la paix, en lien notamment avec la condition des travailleurs migrants.

Organized by the WCC with the Federation of Swiss Protestant Churches and the Cantonal Reformed Churches of Berne, Jura and Solothurn, a recent conference gathered theological reflections on migration, a concern which remains at the heart of many current church debates.

Members of migrant and local churches in Geneva will get to experience the life and spirit of the WCC 10th Assembly in their own city on Saturday 14 September.

Les membres d'Églises migrantes et locales de Genève pourront faire l'expérience de la vie et de l'esprit de la Dixième Assemblée du COE à l'occasion d'une journée organisée dans leur ville le samedi 14 septembre. Cet événement, intitulé «Une journée à la 10e Assemblée du COE», aura lieu au Centre œcuménique, à Genève, de 8 h 30 à 16 h 30.

“Welcoming and protecting the strangers and the aliens, especially the migrants, are at the core of our mission as churches,” said Rev. Dr Olav Fykse Tveit, general secretary of the WCC, in a meeting with Prof. François Crépeau, United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Human Rights of Migrants.

Neben anderen religiösen Gruppen hat der ÖRK zur Formulierung einer Erklärung beigetragen, die den stärkeren Schutz von Flüchtlingen, Binnenvertriebenen und Staatenlosen auf der ganzen Welt – insgesamt über 40 Millionen Erdbewohner – zum Ziel hat.

Along with other faith-based groups, the WCC has helped develop a declaration, launched by the United Nations refugee agency. It aims to strengthen protection for the world’s refugees as well as internally displaced and stateless people, who account for more than 40 million people in the world.

Junto con otras comunidades basadas en la fe, el CMI ha participado en la elaboración de una declaración iniciada por la Agencia de la ONU para los Refugiados que tiene como objetivo incrementar la protección para los más de 40 millones de refugiados, desplazados internos y apátridas que hay en el mundo.

Aux côtés d'autres organisations d'inspiration religieuse, le Conseil œcuménique des Églises a contribué à la rédaction d'une déclaration publiée par l'agence de l'ONU pour les réfugiés. Cette déclaration vise à renforcer la protection des réfugiés et des personnes déplacées et apatrides, qui représentent plus de 40 millions d'individus dans le monde.

A new WCC document on mission and evangelism was presented and discussed at a recent European ecumenical study course in Josefstal, Germany.

Migrant churches groups gather at the Ecumenical Centre to celebrate Witnessing Together in Geneva.

“The urgency of life today” drives Christian engagement in mission, say ten contributors to a new issue of the International Review of Mission, which links the new paradigm of mission to the theme of the upcoming WCC assembly.

The WCC Executive Committee has expressed deep concern about the alarming increase in threats to human security in Latin America. The committee has called for renewed efforts by churches to ensure peaceful and just societies.

[Joint release with the Conference of European Churches (CEC)]

Sunday, 25 March was a day full of moving and thought provoking experiences for the participants of a pre-assembly event of the World Council of Churches (WCC) Commission on World Mission and Evangelism, who spent half a day with a community living at a garbage dumpsite on the outskirts of Manila, Philippines.

On 24 March 2012, the World Council of Churches (WCC) Commission on World Mission and Evangelism pre-assembly event invoked renewed thinking and commitment on evangelism, disassociated from the forces of oppression, and grounded in humility and respect for all.

Transformative spiritualities and mission is a significant point of discussion at the pre-assembly event of the WCC Commission on World Mission and Evangelism (CWME) which is currently under way in Manila. Transformative spiritualities are also one of the constituent themes of the CWME statement on mission and evangelism that will be presented to the WCC 10th Assembly in Busan, Korea in 2013. Dr Rico Palaca Ponce, academic director of the Institute of Spirituality in Asia based in Quezon City, the Philippines, gave an interview on the topic on 23 March.

With more than 200 participants from around the globe, an event of the World Council of Churches (WCC) Commission on World Mission and Evangelism (CWME) starts today in Manila, the Philippines. Its aim is to seek renewed thinking on mission and evangelism, developing a draft of the WCC statement on mission and evangelism that succeeds a statement of thirty years ago.

The world has changed since 1958. In that year members of the International Missionary Council met in Achimota, Ghana and proposed to move their operation into the WCC, then one decade old.

The international tug-of-war over carbon emission thresholds and other instruments meant to limit the deterioration of the earth's climate has caused a big stir in recent months, but yielded little results. Therefore the international community must now get ready to take care of those who will be forced from their homes by climate change.