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Members of the WCC's Ecumenical Disability Advocates Network met in the Netherlands to develop a new statement with the working title "Gift of Being: Called to be a Church of All and for All". The new document is founded on the premise that persons with disabilities experience marginalization both in societies and in the church communities themselves.

In his Easter reflections, the WCC general secretary Rev. Dr Olav Fykse Tveit called this year an “opportunity for shared testimony to the Resurrection” since churches from both eastern and western traditions of Christianity will celebrate Easter on the same day, Sunday 20 April.

Dans ses réflexions pascales, le pasteur Olav Fykse Tveit, secrétaire général du COE, a affirmé que cette année représente «une chance pour le témoignage commun de la résurrection». Cette année en effet, les Églises des traditions orientale et occidentale du christianisme célébreront Pâques le même jour, le dimanche 20 avril.

In an audience with Pope Francis in the Vatican, the WCC general secretary Rev. Dr Olav Fykse Tveit stressed the significance of Christian unity. He also expressed appreciation for Pope Francis’s call to pray for peace in Syria and his call for churches to remember the poor, encouraging Christians to work for economic justice.

Lors d'une audience avec le pape François au Vatican, le pasteur Olav Fykse Tveit, secrétaire général du COE a insisté sur l'importance de l'unité chrétienne. Il a en outre exprimé sa satisfaction concernant l'appel du pape François à prier pour la paix en Syrie et son exhortation faite aux Églises pour qu'elles gardent toujours les pauvres à l'esprit, encourageant les chrétiens et chrétiennes à œuvrer en faveur de la justice économique.

“Without any doubt, ecclesiology remains in our times the crucial issue for Christian theology in ecumenical perspective.” This was one of the conclusions drawn by a week-long consultation in Cyprus at which forty Eastern Orthodox and Oriental Orthodox representatives provided a common response to The Nature and Mission of the Church, a 2005 ecumenical text published by the WCC Commission on Faith and Order.