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A flower in the Ituqui River — A flower in the Ituqui River near the Quilombo Bom Jardim, outside Santarem, Brazil. The Ituqui flows into the nearby Amazon River.

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WCC to join Season of Creation prayer amid climate extremes

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Speakers at the Climate Finance event at the 63rd Human Rights Council, — Speakers at the Climate Finance event at the 63rd Human Rights Council.

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Faith groups carry a grants-not-loans demand toward COP31

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Ricardo Noite/HEKS/EPER — Ground zero of the disaster, Caraballeda, La Guaira. HEKS/EPER Venezuela team.

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ACT Alliance calls for solidarity, support after visiting earthquake-torn Colombia, Venezuela

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2024_WCC_EEF_MarceloSchneider_25_june_005 — Prof. Dr Ani Ghazaryan Drissi.

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Regional theological institute is coming to Latin America in 2027

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Speakers of the panel — Andrew Harper, deputy chief executive of Epworth Investment Management speaks at the panel “Stop Funding the Climate Crisis: Christians Holding Banks Accountable” during the Greenbelt Festival in the UK.

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Greenbelt Festival talk features how—and why—Christians are holding banks accountable

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WCC to join Season of Creation prayer amid climate extremes

The World Council of Churches (WCC) will join the global Christian family in opening the 2026 Season of Creation, the ecumenical world's month of prayer and action for creation. Communities on every continent have already lived through record heat, wildfires, and flooding in 2026, many of them home to WCC member churches.

26 August 2026
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Faith groups carry a grants-not-loans demand toward COP31

Climate finance, the money that helps countries cut emissions and cope with impacts, should come as grants, not debt-creating loans, demanded faith-based organizations at the UN Human Rights Council as COP31 in Antalya, Turkey approaches. "Climate Finance for Human Rights, Resilience, and Justice", held in Geneva on 7 September, was convened by Franciscans International, the World Council of Churches (WCC) and six other partners.

09 September 2026
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WCC retirees gather for news, prayers—and Bossey anniversary

An annual gathering of World Council of Churches (WCC) retirees, along with retirees from the Lutheran World Federation and other sister organizations, was held on 7 September. Participants heard the latest WCC news, prayed together, and enjoyed a birthday cake commemorating the 80th anniversary of the Ecumenical Institute at Bossey.

07 September 2026
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2026 International Peace Convocation to take place in Korea

An International Ecumenical Peace Convocation will convene 9-13 September in Seoul, Republic of Korea, under the theme “World Peace and the Korean Peninsula: The Church as a Community of Healing, Reconciliation, and Peacebuilding.”

07 September 2026
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Ecumenical officers exchange experiences on churches’ climate work

The third drop-in session of the World Council of Churches (WCC) Ecumenical Officers Network, held on 3 September, focused on churches’ engagement with climate justice and the Season of Creation.

04 September 2026
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Joint Working Group deepens friendship, cooperation between WCC, Catholic Church

A communique issued at the close of the plenary meeting of the Joint Working Group between the World Council of Churches and the Roman Catholic Church explains the mandate of the working groups, marks the 80th anniversary of the Ecumenical Institute at Bossey, and expresses gratitude.

03 September 2026

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ACT Alliance calls for solidarity, support after visiting earthquake-torn Colombia, Venezuela

Rudelmar Bueno de Faria, general secretary of the ACT Alliance, recently visited Colombia and Venezuela in the wake of earthquakes in both countries. He reflects on the humanitarian work—and why communities are ready to lead it.

08 September 2026
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Regional theological institute is coming to Latin America in 2027

The World Council of Churches (WCC) Regional Ecumenical Theological Institute (RETI) Latin America has been announced for 2027. Prof. Dr Ani Ghazaryan Drissi, WCC programme executive for Ecumenical Theological Education (ETE) and coordinator of the Global Ecumenical Theological Institute (GETI) and RETI, reflects on her hopes for the new regional initiative, and how you can get involved.

08 September 2026
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Greenbelt Festival talk features how—and why—Christians are holding banks accountable

A session at the Greenbelt Festival in the UK covered “Stop Funding the Climate Crisis: Christians Holding Banks Accountable.” A panel of speakers discussed how churches, including the Methodist Church, are turning to legal action to challenge those financing environmental harm.

08 September 2026
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Season of Creation 2026 opens with living water and a new feast

Rivers that carry plastic to the sea. Wells turning salt as the ocean rises. Taps that run dry where children walk far for water. These were prayed for on 1 September, at the service opening the 2026 Season of Creation under the theme "Living Water" from Ezekiel 47. "We are surrounded by water," said Rev. James Bhagwan, general secretary of the Pacific Conference of Churches, "but something within humanity has become dry."

03 September 2026
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WCC leaves COP17 in Ulaanbaatar with the same land question

For 11 days in Ulaanbaatar, the World Council of Churches (WCC) made one argument in five different events: degraded land will not be restored without the communities who already hold it. It closed on 25 August, with churches in front of investors, then farmers.

03 September 2026
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A day of prayer, a decade of action for climate justice

H.E. Metropolitan Serafim Kykotis

Every year on 1 September, something remarkable happens across the Orthodox world. At the proposal of the Ecumenical Patriarchate, all local Orthodox churches have set this date aside as a Day of Prayer for the Environment, a moment when 300 million Orthodox faithful, together with people of goodwill everywhere, turn to our Most High Creator and ask a hard question about climate justice: are we living up to our responsibility for the planet we were given to keep?

02 September 2026

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