Media advisory
Accreditation is mandatory for online access to daily media briefings, seminars, keynote addresses and other live streamed events during the conference, with opportunities to ask questions directly to panels. Apply for online accreditation by filling out the application form.
This will be the sixth such conference in a century, with previous gatherings held in 1927 (Lausanne, Switzerland), 1937 (Edinburgh, Scotland), 1952 (Lund, Sweden), 1963 (Montreal, Canada),1993 (Santiago, Spain) and 2025 (Wadi El Natrun, Egypt).
The cohost for the conference is the Coptic Orthodox Church, marking the first time such a conference is hosted by an Oriental Orthodox church.
The Sixth World Conference for Faith and Order, being hosted at the invitation of His Holiness Pope Tawadros II, will convene under the theme “Where now for visible unity?”
The communication and media operation is co-organized by the World Council of Churches (WCC), the Middle East Council of Churches (MECC) and the Coptic Media Center.
The conference is academic in nature, featuring research papers reflecting the viewpoints of their authors. The conference will be an opportunity to bring together church leaders and theologians of different traditions as well as to involve a new generation of ecumenists at a time when the world faces climate catastrophe, the threat of pandemics, war, and economic concern – challenges requiring a fresh engagement of the churches with one another on core issues of faith and mission that both unite and continue to divide them.
A special resource book including conference timetable and a conference handbook gives a more detailed picture of the conference.
Accredited media are welcome to participate in online media briefings at 2 pm local time (1 pm Central European Summer Time then 12 pm Central European Time) on 23, 24, 25, 27 and 28 October. Zoom link will be sent in advance via email.
A WCC Global Ecumenical Theological Institute (GETI) held in conjunction with the conference will offer space for a new generation of younger and emerging ecumenical theologians and educators to engage with the work of Faith and Order. More information is available here.
More information about the WCC Sixth World Conference on Faith and Order, as well as news releases and other information, can be found at the WCC Press Centre.
For further questions and inquiries, please email: [email protected]
Conference Handbook for the Sixth World Conference on Faith and Order | World Council of Churches
Resource Book for the Sixth World Conference on Faith and Order | World Council of Churches
Sixth World Conference on Faith and Order | World Council of Churches (opens on Friday 17 October)
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