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Esta semana el Instituto Ecuménico de Bossey en Suiza del Consejo Mundial de Iglesias vive unos días marcados por la puesta en común de los textos sagrados, la investigación y el diálogo que aúna las perspectivas del judaísmo, el cristianismo y el islam de los estudiantes que se afanan en completar el programa del Certificado de Estudios Avanzados (CAS) sobre el diálogo interreligioso.

In a 9 July letter, World Council of Churches (WCC) general secretary Rev. Dr Olav Fykse Tveit invited the WCC global fellowship and all people of good will to participate in the World Week of Peace in Palestine and Israel on 16-23 September.

Speakers at a world conference on human rights and religion at the United Nations in Geneva, including the World Council of Churches (WCC) general secretary, have stressed the need for equal citizenship rights to counter xenophobia and discrimination.

Los ponentes de la Conferencia Mundial sobre Derechos Humanos y Religión celebrada en las Naciones Unidas en Ginebra, entre los que se encontraba el secretario general del Consejo Mundial de Iglesias (CMI), han subrayado la necesidad de disfrutar de los mismos derechos de ciudadanía para combatir la xenofobia y la discriminación.

As the Conference of European Churches (CEC) convened in Novi Sad, Serbia for its 15th general assembly, World Council of Churches (WCC) general secretary Rev. Dr Olav Fykse Tveit conveyed a greeting on behalf of the WCC.

El secretario general del Consejo Mundial de Iglesias (CMI), Rev. Dr. Olav Fykse Tveit, transmitió un saludo en nombre del CMI a la Conferencia de las Iglesias Europeas (KEK), reunida en Novi Sad (Serbia) con motivo de su 15ª Asamblea General.

World Council of Churches (WCC) general secretary Rev. Dr Olav Fykse Tveit condemned the suicide bombing attacks at three separate churches in Surabaya, East Java, Indonesia, on Sunday.

An “Interreligious Dialogue for Peace, Promoting Peaceful Coexistence & Common Citizenship” in Vienna on 26 February is creating a first-ever joint action plan for Arab religious leaders to lead the way in repairing the divisions created by extremists, and rebuilding social cohesion and common citizenship in the Arab region.

El “Diálogo Interreligioso por la Paz, la Promoción de la Coexistencia Pacífica y la Ciudadanía Común” celebrado en Viena el 26 de febrero pone en marcha el primer plan de acción conjunto para que los dirigentes religiosos árabes muestren el camino para reparar las divisiones creadas por los extremistas y reconstruir la cohesión social y la ciudadanía común en la región árabe.

In a highly unusual action, the leaders of Jerusalem’s churches closed the doors of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre on Sunday. The united protest was in response to moves by Jerusalem authorities to begin collecting tens of millions of dollars in taxes from churches, as well as proposed legislation to confiscate church-owned land.

En una acción insólita, los dirigentes de las iglesias de Jerusalén cerraron el domingo las puertas de la Iglesia del Santo Sepulcro. La protesta conjunta respondía a la decisión de las autoridades de Jerusalén de empezar a recaudar decenas de millones de dólares en concepto de impuestos a las iglesias, así como a la propuesta legislativa de confiscar tierras propiedad de las iglesias.

Applications are now open for YATRA (Youth in Asia Training for Religious Amity) 2018, an inter-religious training programme of the WCC. The intensive training course, held annually since 2014, seeks to enable young Christian leaders from Asian churches to contribute towards the building up of just, harmonious and peaceable communities by equipping them for ministries of justice and peace from an inter-religious perspective.

From 18-25 January, Christians across the world will bear witness to Jesus’s prayer for his disciples that “they may be one so that the world may believe.”

Whether praying together, exchanging preachers, or planning ecumenical services, congregations and parishes will come together in many ways during the World Council of Churches (WCC) Week of Prayer for Christian Unity.

World Council of Churches (WCC) general secretary Rev. Dr Olav Fykse Tveit and a WCC delegation will visit member churches in China 7-16 January. The historic visit will begin the celebration of the WCC’s 70th anniversary. The WCC delegation, in addition to Tveit, includes WCC Asia president Dr Sang Chang and Rev. Dr Peniel Rajkumar, WCC programme executive for Interreligious Dialogue.

El secretario general del Consejo Mundial de Iglesias (CMI), el Rev. Dr. Olav Fykse Tveit, y una delegación del CMI visitarán a iglesias miembros de China del 7 al 16 de enero. La histórica visita será el inicio de las celebraciones del 70º aniversario del CMI.

A theological consultation in Matanzas, Cuba explored the pastoral and theological questions that the phenomenon of multiple religious belonging poses to Christian churches in Latin America.

It is time to revitalize the Asian ecumenical movement to respond to contemporary realities in Asia, according to Mathews George Chunakara, general secretary of the Christian Conference of Asia, in the article that opens the latest issue of The Ecumenical Review, the quarterly journal of the WCC.

WCC general secretary Rev. Dr Olav Fykse Tveit spoke on 7 November at a Muslim World League symposium in Geneva entitled “The Role of Religions on the Strengthening of World Peace.”

El secretario general del Consejo Mundial de Iglesias, el Rev. Dr. Olav Fykse Tveit, intervino el 7 de noviembre en un simposio de la Liga Musulmana Mundial, en Ginebra, titulado “El papel de las religiones en la consolidación de la paz mundial”.

Relations between the WCC and the Centre for Interreligious Dialogue in Tehran go back more than 20 years. One recent fruit of this relationship has been the developing links between the WCC and the University of Religions and Denominations in the Iranian holy city of Qom.