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Gathering in Makumira near Arusha, Tanzania on 5 March, more than 100 theology students from around the world celebrated the opening of the Global Ecumenical Theological Institute 2018, organized by the WCC.

Más de cien estudiantes de teología de todo el mundo reunidos en Makumira (Tanzania) celebraron la inauguración del Instituto Teológico Ecuménico Mundial (GETI) 2018, un acontecimiento organizado por el CMI.

Through a ceremony on 26 January, the Ecumenical Institute at Bossey saw 21 students from 20 countries and 10 denominations embark on a future of ecumenical work in their respective home countries and contexts.

The WCC invites applications of church-engaged youth to undertake an internship with the council at the Ecumenical Centre in Geneva in 2018. With application deadline 15 March, available work areas include Communication, Health and Healing, Just Community of Women and Men, and Commission of the Churches on International Affairs.

El Consejo Mundial de Iglesias invita a jóvenes comprometidos con la iglesia a presentar sus solicitudes de pasantía en el Centro Ecuménico de Ginebra para 2018.

Young adults from more than 60 countries gathered in Basel for the 40th annual Taizé European Meeting of Young Adults from 28 December - 1 January. As part of a new stage of the Pilgrimage of Trust on Earth, the meeting took place for the first time in a tri-national region (Switzerland, Germany, France).

Jóvenes de más de 60 países se reunieron en Basilea para celebrar el 40° Encuentro Europeo de Jóvenes de Taizé, del 28 de diciembre al 1 de enero. Como parte de una nueva etapa de la Peregrinación de confianza a través la Tierra, la reunión tuvo lugar por primera vez en una región trinacional (Suiza, Alemania, Francia).

The WCC invites ecumenical youth to be stewards at the 2018 Central Committee in Geneva, Switzerland. With application deadline 31 January, the Stewards Programme aims to bring together a dynamic and diverse group of 20 young people from all over the world from 5-23 June 2018.

With the aim of building competency in economics within churches, the second Ecumenical School on Governance, Economics and Management for an Economy of Life (GEM School) was held from 21 August - 1 September in Lusaka, Zambia.

Con el propósito de mejorar las competencias en materia de economía dentro de las iglesias, la segunda Escuela Ecuménica de Gobernanza, Economía y Gestión para una Economía de la Vida tuvo lugar del 21 de agosto al 1 de septiembre en Lusaka (Zambia).

Gathering in Sibiu, Romania, the World Council of Churches (WCC) youth commission ECHOS met on 17-20 August for days of discernment on the position and role of youth in the ecumenical movement today, and to set the future path of the commission, as it journeys on the Pilgrimage of Justice and Peace.

Reunida en Sibiu (Rumania) del 17 al 20 de agosto, la Comisión de los jóvenes en el movimiento ecuménico (ECHOS) del Consejo Mundial de Iglesias (CMI) realizó unas jornadas de discernimiento sobre la posición y el papel de la juventud en el movimiento ecuménico actual y estableció el camino futuro de la Comisión en su peregrinación de justicia y paz.

More than 30 young adults coming from different countries in Latin America and the Caribbean will gather in Colombia to reflect and plan actions on eco-justice and peace building. “Young people for Eco-Justice and Peace: The challenge that we accept” will be organized by the World Student Christian Federation in Latin America and the Caribbean (WSCF – LAC), a partner of the World Council of Churches (WCC), in Barranquilla, from 15-18 August.

“It is imperative for churches to invest in the youth of Africa so they can take leadership in addressing these issues in the timeframe of the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals”, said Prof. Dr Isabel Phiri, World Council of Churches (WCC) deputy general secretary for Diakonia and Public Witness as she spoke to young people attending the first-ever WCC Eco-School in Blantyre, Malawi.

Church must be a safe place where sinners are welcome to learn and change, and where the wounded can share their pains and find refuge, says Maria Dous, a medical student from Egypt. In July, she participated in a seminar organized by the Pan African Women’s Ecumenical Empowerment Network at the WCC's Ecumenical Institute Bossey.

La iglesia debe ser un lugar seguro donde se acoja a los pecadores para que aprendan y cambien, donde quienes tienen heridas puedan compartir su dolor y encontrar refugio, dice María Dous, una estudiante de medicina de Egipto. En julio, María participó en un seminario organizado por la Red Ecuménica Panafricana para el Empoderamiento de las Mujeres (PAWEEN), un proyecto del Departamento de Educación Teológica Ecuménica del Consejo Mundial de Iglesias (CMI), en el Instituto Ecuménico de Bossey del CMI. La siguiente entrevista forma parte de una serie que presenta la visión de algunas de las participantes

On 18-19 July, 35 young leaders from 14 countries across Asia – part of the World Council of Churches' (WCC) Youth in Asia Training in Religious Amity (YATRA) – travelled to the Indonesian city of Bandung to meet with faith leaders and young activists engaged in interreligious dialogue and work.

The World Council of Churches' (WCC) popular YATRA (Youth in Asia Training for Religious Amity) programme has a new online learning component that adds four weeks of intensive training to two weeks of residential learning. When 35 young men and women from 14 different countries meet at the Jakarta Theological Seminary in Indonesia on 8 July, they will already have a familiarity with the major religious traditions found in Asia, thanks to their online studies.

Rev. Pauline Wanjiru Njiru, eastern Africa regional coordinator for the World Council of Churches Ecumenical HIV and AIDS Initiatives and Advocacy (EHAIA), has worked with young people, church leaders and parents for several years now.

As young people from across the world gathered for a three-week Interreligious Summer School at the World Council of Churches (WCC ) Bossey Ecumenical Institute, they heard inspiring greetings about interreligious dialogue from people who encouraged them to contribute to issues of religious pluralism and intercultural acceptance in a society based on migration and globalization.