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Forty young people from 14 countries will meet this week in Cairo for a seminar entitled “Youth Engagement, Religion and Violence.” From 18 to 22 August, participants from Europe, Africa, Asia and the Middle East will focus on topics such as the impact of religious discourse on contributions to peace-building versus creating violent tensions.

Esta semana se reunirán en Cairo cuarenta jóvenes de 14 países para asistir a un seminario titulado “La participación de los jóvenes, la religión y la violencia.” Del 18 al 22 de agosto, se reunirán participantes de Europa, África, Asia y del Oriente Medio para centrarse en temas como el impacto que tiene el discurso religioso en la consolidación de la paz o en provocar tensiones violentas.

Youth are not the future leaders of tomorrow. They are the leaders of today, as they fearlessly lead efforts for justice and peace in their societies.

Forty years after pupils in South Africa’s largest black township, Soweto, took to the streets to protest an inferior education system and set in motion the demise of apartheid, the release of Nelson Mandela and democracy, disillusion has replaced hope.

Adebayo Anthony Kehinde leads an African group supporting ICAN, the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons. Its interfaith campaign is especially significant on the 70th anniversary of the atomic bombings in Japan.

In Taizé, the week-long Gathering for a New Solidarity, for solidarity with the poor and excluded, reached its climax on the weekend of 15-16 August. The ecumenical community is celebrating in 2015 the seventy-fifth anniversary of its foundation by Roger Schutz, as well as the one hundredth anniversary of his birth (on 12 August 1915). Also 16 August was the tenth anniversary of his death.

A message focusing on the theme “Ora et labora”, meaning “pray and work”, was shared by the WCC general secretary Rev. Dr Olav Fykse Tveit, at the 75th anniversary of the Taizé Community, commemorating the life of the community’s founder Brother Roger.

Young ecumenical leaders from Asia have met in Siam Reap, Cambodia to examine how religious traditions can offer resources to overcome religious violence in a changing Asian context.

As organizations worldwide intensify their work on issues of climate justice, and the clock is ticking for new climate commitments to take shape, members of the WCC Working Group on Climate Change have gathered for a four-day meeting to strategize for effective climate justice action and for strong participation of faith-based initiatives at COP21.

Mientras las organizaciones de todo el mundo intensifican su labor en los asuntos relacionados con la justicia climática y a medida que se acaba el tiempo para dar forma a los nuevos compromisos climáticos, los miembros del Grupo de trabajo sobre Cambio Climático del CMI se han reunido durante 4 días para concebir una estrategia de acción eficaz en pos de la justicia climática y lograr una presencia importante de las iniciativas religiosas en la Conferencia de las Naciones Unidas sobre el Cambio Climático en París (CP21).

Members of the WCC Commission on Youth (ECHOS) visited the Coptic Orthodox Patriarchate and Bishop Yohannes, president of the Bishopric of Social and Ecumenical Services.

Members of the WCC Commission on Youth (ECHOS), visited Al Azhar Mosque and University on 12 May for a meeting with the grand sheikh and the Egyptian minister of Religious Affairs.

New members of the WCC Commission on Youth (ECHOS) have gathered for the first time, for a four-day meeting hosted by the Coptic Church in Cairo, Egypt.

Los nuevos miembros de la Comisión de los jóvenes (ECHOS) del CMI se congregan en una reunión de cuatro días auspiciada por la Iglesia Copta en El Cairo (Egipto).

The WCC is hosting the annual meeting of an international group of people with responsibilities for ecumenical relations in several member churches of the WCC. The spring session of the gathering of the Ecumenical Officers Network is taking the theme “pilgrimage of justice and peace” as the inspiration for learning, reflective study and discussion on current developments in the ecumenical movement.

El CMI acogió la reunión anual de un grupo internacional de personas responsables de las relaciones ecuménicas en varias iglesias miembros del CMI. La sesión de primavera del encuentro de la Red de Encargados de Asuntos Ecuménicos tendrá por tema “la peregrinación de justicia y paz”, como fuente de inspiración para el aprendizaje, las reflexiones y las conversaciones sobre las cuestiones de actualidad en el movimiento ecuménico.

The WCC is inviting young adults from Asian churches to participate in a two-week-long training programme called Youth in Asia Training for Religious Amity. The deadline to submit applications is 31 March.

The WCC president for Latin America and the Caribbean, Rev. Gloria Ulloa, has participated at the 35th Assembly of the World Student Christian Federation. The event is currently underway in Bogotá, Colombia, until 5 March.

As the WCC promotes the vision of a “pilgrimage of justice and peace”, four students from the Ecumenical Institute in Bossey, Switzerland, share their understanding of justice and peace and how they embarked on a pilgrimage of their own.

Ferguson is in turmoil. So is New York. And so is Union Theological Seminary in the city of New York, a long-standing institution of theological education located on the upper west side of Manhattan – or in West Harlem – since 1836.