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As the Holy and Great Council commenced this week in Crete, Greece, WCC general secretary Rev. Dr Olav Fykse Tveit attended celebrations of Pentecost with the Orthodox community, offering his prayers and support.

Con motivo del comienzo de la reunión del Santo y Gran Concilio esta semana en Creta (Grecia), el secretario general del Consejo Mundial de Iglesias (CMI), el Rev. Dr. Olav Fykse Tveit, participó en las celebraciones de Pentecostés junto con la comunidad ortodoxa, contribuyendo con su apoyo y sus oraciones.

His All Holiness the Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew arrived in Crete on 15 June, pledging to proceed with the Holy and Great Council, the long-planned meeting of Orthodox Churches there.

Vibrant opening worship held at Luyanó Presbyterian Reformed Church in Havana, Cuba marked the beginning of the executive committee meeting of the World Communion of Reformed Churches in Havana, Cuba from 7-13 May. The meeting was hosted by the Presbyterian Reformed Church in Cuba, a member church of the WCC.

El emocionante culto de apertura celebrado en la Iglesia Presbiteriana-Reformada de Luyanó, La Habana, Cuba, marcó el inicio de la reunión del comité ejecutivo de la Comunión Mundial de Iglesias Reformadas en La Habana, Cuba, del 7 al 13 de mayo. La reunión fue organizada por la Iglesia Presbiteriana-Reformada de Cuba, una iglesia miembro del CMI.

The 500th anniversary of the Reformation in 2017 should be a profoundly ecumenical, as well as European and international celebration, according to Bishop Heinrich Bedford-Strohm, chair of the Council of the Evangelical Church in Germany.

La conmemoración del 500 aniversario de la Reforma en 2017 debería ser una celebración profundamente ecuménica, europea e internacional, según dijo el obispo Heinrich Bedford-Strohm, presidente del Consejo de la Iglesia Evangélica en Alemania.

Reflecting on the relevance of religion in today’s world, WCC general secretary Rev. Dr Olav Fykse Tveit spoke at a sustainable development seminar in Rome on 4 May, posing a question to the participants: “Is religion able to bring hope to people of today?”

El Secretario General del Consejo Mundial de Iglesias (CMI), el Rev. Dr. Olav Fikse Tveit, reflexionó sobre la relevancia de la religión en el mundo actual durante su intervención en un seminario sobre desarrollo sostenible que tuvo lugar en Roma el 4 de mayo, y preguntó a los asistentes: “¿Es la religión capaz de traer esperanza a las personas de hoy?”

Future collaborative work of the Roman Catholic Church with the WCC was the focus of the latest meeting of executives of their Joint Working Group in Geneva.

Durante la última reunión del Grupo Mixto de Trabajo (GMT) celebrada en Ginebra del 11 al 12 de abril de 2016, el grupo ejecutivo se centró en las futuras labores de colaboración entre la Iglesia Católica Romana y el Consejo Mundial de Iglesias (CMI).

Prayers for peace in Nagorno-Karabakh and surrounding areas of Armenia and Azerbaijan were offered on 4 April in the chapel of the Ecumenical Centre in Geneva, Switzerland. Joining in the Geneva service of common prayer were staff from ecumenical and other international organizations including the WCC and the LWF.

The Faith and Order Commission’s convergence text “The Church: Towards a Common Vision” continues to be discussed by churches on a journey toward revealing the unity of the church and how it is inextricably bound on a pilgrimage of justice and peace.

Pope Francis was presented two publications of the World Council of Churches on 24 February, at the close of a papal audience in the Vatican attended by members of the WCC’s Commission on World Mission and Evangelism (CWME).

Los miembros de la Comisión de Misión Mundial y Evangelización del CMI regalaron al papa Francisco dos publicaciones del Consejo al término de una audiencia papal celebrada el 24 de febrero en el Vaticano.

Anglican, Roman Catholic and Methodist Churches in Aotearoa New Zealand are forming an ecumenical entity to pursue closer ties and share understandings.

In an age of religious pluralism and of religious justification of all manner of atrocities, how do religious communities contribute authentically to the public good?

En tiempos de pluralismo religioso y de escudarse en la religión para justificar toda suerte de atrocidades, ¿cómo pueden contribuir verdaderamente las comunidades religiosas al bien común?

Rev. Dr Olav Fykse Tveit, general secretary of the World Council of Churches (WCC), has issued a statement on behalf of the Council hailing the historic meeting of Pope Francis, pontiff of the Roman Catholic Church, and Patriarch Kirill, primate of the Russian Orthodox Church.The two leaders met on 12 February in Havana, Cuba.

El Rev. Dr. Olav Fykse Tveit, secretario general del CMI, ha publicado una declaración en nombre del Consejo saludando el encuentro histórico entre el papa Francisco, pontífice de la Iglesia católica romana, y el patriarca Cirilo, primado de la Iglesia ortodoxa rusa.