Annual Review 2025

Walking Toward Unity

2026

The annual review presents a roundup of events and actions of the World Council of Churches in 2025 that have advanced the WCC’s commitment to be catalysts of reconciliation, advocates for justice and peace, and agents of hope in the world.

In the opening section, the WCC General Secretary, Rev. Prof. Dr Jerry Pillay notes that the array of activities and initiatives highlighted testifies to the great and pressing needs of today’s world. “Yet they also illumine the vast network of churches, ecumenical partners, and allies that magnify and extend our programmes, as well as the deep well of faith that inspires Christians around the world to join hearts and hands with us to heal the world.”

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A year steeped in history and tradition

“In 2025, under the aegis of the Pilgrimage of Justice, Reconciliation, and Unity, the council experienced a year steeped in history and tradition, as the WCC celebrated a host of anniversaries,” writes WCC general secretary Rev. Prof. Dr Jerry Pillay in an opening message. “Across the full range of signal events, exciting initiatives, and vital programmes detailed in these pages, I believe you will see the ecumenical fellowship living out ‘ecumenism of the heart’ to which the WCC’s 11th Assembly called us in 2022.”