Olena Bogdan, head of the State Service of Ukraine for Ethnic Affairs and Freedom of Conscience and Oleksandr Tkachenko, minister of Culture and Information Policy of Ukraine meets the WCC delegation in Kyiv on 4 August, 2022.
Participants in a special worship service July 21, 2022 organized by the Women's Committee of the National Council of churches in Korea make panels for the Thursdays in Black Waterfall of Solidarity and Resistance. Credit: Kurt Esslinger/NCCK
A female shepherd tends to her flock in the valley of Yanoun, Tulkarem, Occupied Palestinian Territories. The village of Yanoun sits on a hillside in the Nablus Governorate of the West Bank.
During the recent solidarity visit in Ukraine, a World Council of Churches (WCC) delegation has met with various state institutions working with religious issues, listening and learning from the victims of the ongoing war and asking for support in giving permission to the members of the delegation of Ukrainian Churches to leave the country and attend the WCC 11th Assembly in Karlsruhe.
A multilingual volume of spiritual life resources, “Oasis of Peace,” is ready and waiting for World Council of Churches (WCC) 11th Assembly participants with inspiration for prayers and praise.
Three new theological reflections are available to help people prepare and reflect for the World Week of Peace in Palestine and Israel, to be held 15-22 September.
As the World Council of Churches (WCC) Climate Working Group meets this month, the advisory body is looking forward to offering the fruits of its work for reflection and, most important, action at the WCC 11th Assembly in Karlsruhe. Below, Rev. Henrik Grape, senior advisor on Care for Creation, Sustainability, and Climate Justice, reflects on climate justice work in the lead-up to the assembly and beyond.
For World Council of Churches 11th Assembly delegates and for other people around the world who want to get to the heart of the assembly, the WCC is offering a Resource Book full of both information and inspiration.
World Council of Churches Rev. Prof. Dr Ioan Sauca expressed grief and extended condolences in the wake of a church fire in Egypt that killed at least 41 people, 18 of them children.
The World Council of Churches (WCC) is looking to its assembly at the end of August in Karlsruhe to raise up the issue of climate justice and underline the need to care for the creation, says the WCC’s acting general secretary, Rev. Prof. Dr Ioan Sauca.
As colorful panels traveled from South Korea to be included in the Waterfall of Solidarity and Resistance at the World Council of Churches (WCC) 11th Assembly in Karlsruhe, women in South Korea shared a sense of global support.
It’s not easy to be a youth leader in the Holy Land. “Our youth have a need to recognize God’s calling in their lives,” explained Nadine Bitar, general secretary of Christian Youth in Palestine, a group that supports youth leaders in the homeland of Jesus.
Residents of near and far gathered in a small village of Bărbătești in Romania to celebrate the consecration of a new Orthodox church, a significant sign of hope in the region recently confronted with economic emigration.
Rev. Dr Lydia Mwaniki believes her call from God to serve actually began when she was in her mother’s womb. “When my mother was four months pregnant and was splitting firewood, she said to God, ‘if you send me a baby boy, he will serve in your house."
During the recent solidarity visit to Ukraine, a World Council of Churches (WCC) delegation was welcomed at the Banchen monastery in the Chernivtsi region of Ukraine, witnessing its active involvement supporting and sheltering victims of Russia’s ongoing war against Ukraine.