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Nearly 60 participants gathered to reflect on the theme “Reclaim Evangelism!” at the North American 2015 Conference on Evangelism, held 29 October - 2 November in Nashville, Tennessee (U.S.). The conference was organized by the WCC and the NCCUSA, in consultation with the Canadian Council of Churches, and it was hosted by the Discipleship Ministries of the United Methodist Church.

Cerca de sesenta participantes se reunieron para reflexionar sobre el tema “Reivindicar la evangelización” en la Conferencia de América del Norte sobre Evangelización de 2015, celebrada del 29 de octubre al 2 de noviembre en Nashville, Tennessee (EE. UU.). La conferencia fue organizada por el CMI y el Consejo Nacional de Iglesias de los Estados Unidos de América, en consulta con el Consejo Canadiense de Iglesias, y con los Ministerios de Discipulado de la Iglesia Metodista Unida como anfitriones.

The theme “Discrimination, Persecution, Martyrdom: Following Christ Together” remained in sharp focus at a Global Christian Forum consultation in Albania. The event from 1-5 November in Tirana gathered some 150 international participants, including representatives of the WCC.

Cardinal Kurt Koch of the Roman Catholic Church, president of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity, has granted an interview to WCC News. The conversation took place at the Global Christian Forum in Tirana, Albania where 150 high level leaders and representatives of various church traditions from more than 60 countries gathered to listen and learn from one another and to stand in solidarity with churches and Christians experiencing discrimination and persecution in the world today.

El cardenal católico Kurt Koch, presidente del Pontificio Consejo para la Unidad de los Cristianos, ha concedido una entrevista a Noticias del CMI, un medio de comunicación del CMI. La conversación tuvo lugar en el marco del Foro Cristiano Mundial celebrado en Tirana (Albania), que reunió a 150 dirigentes y representantes de alto nivel de varias tradiciones cristianas de más de 60 países con el fin de escucharse mutuamente y aprender unos de otros, así como de expresar su solidaridad con las iglesias y los cristianos del mundo que actualmente sufren discriminación y persecución.

The United Church of Christ and The United Church of Canada, both members of the WCC, formalized a full communion agreement in a worship service at St. Andrew's United Church, Niagara Falls, Ontario, on 17 October.

La Iglesia Unida de Cristo y la Iglesia Unida del Canadá, ambas miembros del CMI, formalizaron un acuerdo de plena comunión durante un culto celebrado el 17 de octubre en la Iglesia Unida de San Andrés, en Niagara Falls, Ontario (Estados Unidos de América).

“A Dialogue on Believers’ Baptism” provides the focus for the October issue of the quarterly journal of the WCC.

Well over 250 young people came to Taizé from 30 August to 6 September 2015 to participate in the first theological symposium on “Brother Roger's Contribution to Theological Thought”. Those invited to this time of reflection and sharing were theological students and young theologians under the age of 40 engaged in research as well as those preparing for service in the church or those already involved in ministry. A wide range of speakers from all over the world aroused a great deal of interest, with contributions offered from a Protestant, Orthodox and Roman Catholic viewpoint, coming from Western and Eastern Europe as well as from Asia, North America, Latin America and Africa.

A special service organized by the WCC at the Ecumenical Centre chapel in Geneva, Switzerland, dedicated prayers to the United Nations post-2015 Sustainable Development Goals, meant to eliminate extreme poverty, fight inequality and injustice and tackle climate change and water scarcity by 2030.

Un servicio especial organizado por el Consejo Mundial de Iglesias (CMI) en la capilla del Centro Ecuménico, en Ginebra, (Suiza) dedicó oraciones a los Objetivos de Desarrollo Sostenible para después de 2015, que pretenden eliminar la pobreza extrema, combatir la desigualdad y la injusticia, y luchar contra el cambio climático y la escasez de agua para el año 2030.

In view of the changing global landscape of mission and evangelism, participants in a meeting organized by the WCC and the Council for World Mission explored the concept of evangelism and its life-affirming aspects in the city of Sydney, where the event was held from 5 to 13 September.

Interview with the WCC general secretary, who is currently in Brasilia, about violence committed in the name of religion, human rights and climate justice in Brazil.

Dynamics of “indigenous ecological spiritualties and Christian faith” were explored at a WCC seminar in Yogyakarta, Indonesia.

Joined in prayer, Christian churches around the world will again observe the ecumenical “Time for Creation” (1 September to 4 October), this year bolstered by Pope Francis’s recent proclamation of 1 September as the “World Day of Prayer for the Care of Creation.”

Del 1 de septiembre al 4 de octubre, las iglesias de todo el mundo, unidas en la oración, volverán a observar el Tiempo para la Creación, una iniciativa ecuménica que este año se ve reforzada por la reciente proclamación por parte del papa Francisco del 1 de septiembre como Jornada Mundial de Oración por el Cuidado de la Creación.

An historic vote in Canada has set the stage for close cooperation between two North American churches.

As an ecumenical delegation to Japan participates in Hiroshima Day observances on the 70th anniversary of the atomic bombing, the WCC has published a liturgical resource and invites churches around the world to join in prayer.

The World Council of Churches invites its member churches to join in prayer for peace and reunification of the Korean peninsula on Sunday, 9 August.

“The WCC is grateful for new momentum in collective efforts to manifest our common faith in God the creator and our commitment to common service,” said the WCC general secretary, Rev. Dr Olav Fykse Tveit, as he spoke at the 50th anniversary gathering of a joint WCC-Roman Catholic group.