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More than 30 alumni of the World Council of Churches (WCC) Young Adults Training for Religious Amity programme gathered online over the last two weeks for a unique “Train the Trainers” event to equip former participants with the skills to organise interreligious dialogue and training in their own communities. The training, which brought together former participants from 2014-2019, included four webinars focussed on deepening interreligious awareness as well as developing leadership competencies in facilitation.

An interreligious conference exploring religion and migration was hosted from 27-30 January in Sweden by Religions for Peace co-president and Church of Sweden Archbishop Dr Antje Jackelén.

The annual meeting of the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue (PCID) and the World Council of Churches (WCC) was hosted by the WCC at the Ecumenical Centre, Geneva, and at the nearby Chateau de Bossey from 6-7 February.

Les 6 et 7 février, la réunion annuelle entre le Conseil pontifical pour le dialogue interreligieux (CPDI) et le Conseil œcuménique des Églises (COE) a été organisée par le COE au Centre œcuménique de Genève et au château de Bossey voisin.

A lively interchange on the rapidly changing landscape of interreligious encounter marked the launch of a new journal at the Ecumenical Centre on Friday, 7 February. The occasion was the unveiling of the new incarnation of Current Dialogue, the pioneering World Council of Churches periodical on interreligious dialogue. Rev. Dr Olav Fykse Tveit, general secretary of the World Council of Churches (WCC), welcomed the new publishing arrangement as an historic moment for the ecumenical movement, through which Current Dialogue joins the WCC’s other two academic journals, noting that the journal brings a distinctive ecumenical perspective to the growing field.

Current Dialogue, the World Council of Churches’ (WCC) long-standing journal on interreligious relations, is now available online and as a print issue in a new format.

During a visit from World Council of Churches (WCC) deputy general secretary Prof. Dr Isabel Apawo Phiri, WCC member churches in Japan received expressions of appreciation from the WCC for hosting various visits and forums that strengthened ecumenical ties.

WCC members in Japan reported a deepening spirit of koinonia as well as more involvement in the programmatic life of the WCC, particularly as the ecumenical movement sets its sights on the upcoming WCC 11th Assembly in 2021 in Karlsruhe, Germany.

As the Youth in Asia Training for Religious Amity opened at the Yonsei University Chapel in South Korea on 18 September, participants were already learning to live into the theme “Stewards of Hope, Seekers of Harmony.” For the first time, the training includes not only young people from Asia but from across the world, and is being co-coordinated by the World Council of Churches (WCC) Programme for Interreligious Dialogue and Cooperation, the Council for World Mission, and youth representatives from the ecumenical movement.

Au lancement de la formation des jeunes en Asie pour l’amitié religieuse (YATRA) le 18 septembre dans la chapelle de l’Université Yonsei, en Corée du Sud, les participant-e-s apprennent déjà à s’immerger dans le thème «intendants de l’espoir, prospecteurs d’harmonie».

C’est la première fois que la formation inclut non seulement des jeunes venus d’Asie, mais également du monde entier. Elle est coordonnée à la fois par le Programme pour le dialogue interreligieux et la jeunesse dans le mouvement œcuménique du Conseil œcuménique des Églises (COE), le Conseil pour la mission mondiale (CMM) et la Communion mondiale d’Églises réformées (CMER).

The World Council of Churches (WCC) is currently working on learning from its member churches and other partners about the realities around the world of racism, discrimination, and xenophobia, WCC director of international affairs Peter Prove has told a gathering at the United Nations in Geneva.
Prove, director of the WCC Commission of the Churches on International Affairs, Prove was speaking on 17 September at a side event during the 42nd UN Human Rights Council from 9 - 27 September at the Palais des Nations.

Le Conseil œcuménique des Églises (COE) se forme auprès de ses Églises membres et autres partenaires sur la réalité du racisme, de la discrimination et de la xénophobie autour du monde, a déclaré Peter Prove, directeur des affaires internationales du COE, lors d’une réunion aux Nations Unies à Genève.

Directeur de la Commission des Églises pour les affaires internationales du COE, Peter Prove parlait le 17 septembre lors d’un événement parallèle organisé pendant le 42e Conseil des droits de l’homme de l’ONU, qui se tient du 9 au 27 septembre au Palais des Nations.

Twenty-seven young ecumenists from across Asia are currently attending the month-long Asian Ecumenical Institute organized by the Christian Conference of Asia. The programme aims to provide ecumenical formation and leadership development training for prospective church and ecumenical leaders. It is being held at the Christian Conference of Asia headquarters in Payap University Campus in Chiang Mai, Thailand.

The Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz hosted an international conference on “The Many Faces of Jesus Christ: Contextual Christology in a New World Come of Age.” Meeting from July 4-6 on the university campus, the conference brought together 20 scholars from Asia, Africa, Europe, and North America to listen to and debate new developments in Christology from around the world. Anglican, Baptist, Catholic, Pentecostal and Reformed theologians made presentations on Christology, as reflected in theological writings, poetry, art, music and murals, and lived experience.

The World Council of Churches (WCC) hosted a Sikh-Christian dialogue on 5 July with the theme “Pursuing Peace in a Pluralistic World” to commemorate the 550th birth Anniversary of Guru Nanak, the first guru of the Sikhs.

Le 5 juillet, le Conseil œcuménique des Églises (COE) a animé un dialogue entre les religions sikhe et chrétienne sur le thème «Poursuivre la paix dans un monde pluriel» afin de marquer le 550ᵉ anniversaire de la naissance du gourou Nanak, premier gourou du sikhisme.

Young students from all over the world were welcomed to the World Council of Churches (WCC) Ecumenical Institute in Bossey, Switzerland on Tuesday for the Certificate of Advanced Studies in Interreligious Studies.
The theme of the 2018/2019 academic year is “Engaging for just and participatory societies - belongingness in Judaism, Christianity and Islam”.

Les jeunes étudiant-e-s du monde entier ont été accueilli-e-s mardi à l’Institut œcuménique de Bossey du Conseil œcuménique des Églises (COE), en Suisse, pour le certificat d’études avancées en études interreligieuses.
Le thème de l’année académique 2018/2019 est: «S’engager pour des sociétés justes et participatives – l’appartenance au judaïsme, au christianisme et à l’islam».

World Council of Churches (WCC) general secretary Rev. Dr Olav Fykse Tveit sent greetings to Muslim friends and colleagues as they celebrated the festival of Eid al-Fitr.

“Many Christians find that it is an enriching experience, and indeed a positive challenge to their faith, to observe something of how Muslims practise their faith through the month of Ramadan,” wrote Tveit. "For example, your commitment to fasting, to mutual forgiveness, and to remembering the needs of the poor and hungry, is a welcome reminder to Christians that these practices are also important to us in our own faith.”

Le pasteur Olav Fykse Tveit, secrétaire général du Conseil œcuménique des Églises (COE), a envoyé ses vœux aux amis et collègues musulmans du COE à l’occasion de la fête de l’Aïd-el-Fitr.

«Beaucoup de chrétiens trouvent enrichissant et même stimulant pour leur foi d’observer comment les musulmans pratiquent leur religion pendant le mois du ramadan, a-t-il écrit. Par exemple, votre engagement à jeûner, à vous pardonner mutuellement et à vous souvenir des besoins des pauvres et des personnes qui ont faim rappelle à juste titre aux chrétiens que ces pratiques revêtent également de l’importance dans notre propre religion.»

At a conference with the theme “Promoting Peace Together” held in Geneva on 21 May, religious leaders focused on two historic documents related to peace-making. The first, “Human Fraternity for World Peace and Living Together,” was jointly signed by Pope Francis and the Grand Imam of Al-Azhar in Abu Dhabi in February. The second, “Education for Peace in a Multi-Religious World: A Christian Perspective,” jointly prepared by the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue and the World Council of Churches (WCC), was officially launched at the conference.