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À l’occasion de la Journée internationale dédiée à la mémoire des victimes de l’holocauste, le secrétaire général par intérim du Conseil œcuménique des Églises (COE), le père Ioan Sauca, a invité à faire une pause pour se souvenir des 6 millions de victimes juives de l’holocauste et des millions d’autres victimes du nazisme pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale.

On International Holocaust Remembrance Day, World Council of Churches (WCC) interim general secretary Rev. Prof. Dr Ioan Sauca called upon people to pause to remember the 6 million Jewish victims of the Holocaust and the millions of other victims of Nazism during the Second World War.

The deadline has been extended to 15 March for a youth essay competition on “The Future of Interreligious Dialogue.”

Scholars and academics from different religious traditions have gathered online for the first meeting of the editorial board of Current Dialogue, the World Council of Churches’ journal on interreligious encounter.

With the aim of further developing the work of the World Council of Churches (WCC) in the field of interreligious relations, the WCC is opening a new survey seeking information about experience and activities of WCC member churches in interreligious relations.

The World Council of Churches (WCC) has announced an essay competition for youth who want to reflect on the theme “The Future of Interreligious Dialogue.” The contest marks the 50th anniversary of the WCC’s Office of Interreligious Dialogue and Cooperation.

World Council of Churches (WCC) interim general secretary Rev. Prof. Dr Ioan Sauca offered reflections on the newest encyclical of Pope Francis, Fratelli tutti. Subtitled “On fraternity and social friendship,” the document is the Pope’s third encyclical.

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.

Das jährliche Treffen des Päpstlichen Rates für den Interreligiösen Dialog (PCID) und des Ökumenischen Rates der Kirchen (ÖRK) wurde am 6. und 7. Februar vom ÖRK im Ökumenischen Zentrum in Genf und im nahe gelegenen Château de Bossey ausgerichtet.

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.

La reunión anual del Pontificio Consejo para el Diálogo Interreligioso (PCDI) y del Consejo Mundial de Iglesias (CMI) fue auspiciada por el CMI en el Centro Ecuménico de Ginebra y en el cercano Château de Bossey los días 6 y 7 de febrero.

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.