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Religion is a double-edged sword for women healing from violence and trauma, yet they find their way out of pain in amazing ways, say two scholars whose work investigates and analyses this.

For the National Council of Churches of Brazil (CONIC), the World Cup offers a unique opportunity to provide pastoral care and highlight understanding about Brazil.

A scholarly work reflects on the “long Sixties,” from the late 1950s into the 1970s, when the World Council of Churches evolved into an international fellowship of churches.

Exploring realities of multi-religious societies and discovering new ways of working together as faith communities to promote justice and peace, young Christian leaders from Asia have gathered in Cambodia to take part in a two-week training programme called Youth in Asia Training for Religious Amity (YATRA).

Jayonta Adhikari, a Bangladeshi member of the WCC Central Committee, speaks about socio-political realities for Christians in his country, aspirations for protection of human rights, as well as what the WCC's call for a “pilgrimage of justice of peace” means for the region’s churches.

The moderator of the WCC Central Committee called for an openness to change in an era of encounter with “different types of cultures and religions”.

Bishop Munib Younan will participate in an inter-religious service of prayer for peace to be held at the Vatican on Pentecost Sunday 8 June.

In a message to the 103rd session of the International Labour Conference in Geneva, the WCC general secretary says that “labour is not a commodity but an essential dimension of human dignity and life in community.”

Thirteen years after the bomb attack at the Catholic Church of Baniarchar in Bangladesh which killed ten people and injured more than twenty, religious groups hold rally in Dhaka demanding justice.

The new, global and potentially life-saving Arms Trade Treaty, years in the making, is showing record progress toward coming into effect.

Rev. Dr Olav Fykse Tveit, general secretary of the World Council of Churches (WCC), extended greetings from the worldwide fellowship of churches to His Holiness Moran Mor Ignatius Aphrem II during a celebration in Beirut on 1 June following his enthronement as Syriac Orthodox Patriarch of Antioch and All East, and Supreme Head of the Universal Syriac Orthodox Church.

An urgent call for protection of human rights, peace and security in the Middle East and South Sudan was recently issued by the National Council of Churches of Christ in the USA at its first Christian Unity Gathering from 18 to 20 May in Washington, D.C.

The weekend meeting of Pope Francis, Bishop of Rome, and Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople holds significance for global churches and the ecumenical movement beyond the Roman Catholic and Orthodox churches, said Rev. Dr Olav Fykse Tveit, general secretary of the WCC.

The general secretary of the WCC, Dr Rev. Olav Fykse Tveit, has condemned the 24 May attack on the Jewish Museum in Brussels which resulted in the deaths of four persons including two Israeli citizens.

A film about the imposition of a totalitarian form of Islam on a village in Mali has won the prize of the Ecumenical Jury at the Cannes Film Festival in France. Timbuktu, directed by Abderrahmane Sissako, a filmmaker from Mauritania, tells the story of how local people resist the arrival of extremists who want to restrict women's liberty and to outlaw music and football.

Um das bedrückende Thema der Jugendarbeitslosigkeit in Ägypten anzugehen, hat der ÖRK in Zusammenarbeit mit der Internationalen Arbeitsorganisation in Kairo einen Dialog zum Thema „Die ägyptische Jugend und ihr Recht auf menschenwürdige Arbeit“ veranstaltet. An der Veranstaltung am 15. Mai nahmen Menschen christlichen wie muslimischen Glaubens teil.