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Church World Service, Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service, and other faith communities are urging the U.S. government to resettle 100,000 Syrian refugees this coming fiscal year, in addition to increasing the total U.S. resettlement commitment to 100,000 refugees from other parts of the world.

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

Seventy years after nuclear fireballs exploded over two Japanese cities, an ecumenical group of pilgrims has come to Hiroshima to listen to those who survived and renew the struggle against their own countries’ continued reliance on nuclear weapons.

Kirchenleitende aus sieben Ländern, die derzeit historische Entscheidungen für oder gegen die Ächtung von Atomwaffen treffen, werden Anfang August zu einer Pilgereise in zwei japanische Städte aufbrechen, die vor 70 Jahren durch Atombomben dezimiert wurden.

Church leaders from seven countries currently making historic choices for or against outlawing nuclear weapons will embark on a pilgrimage in early August to the two Japanese cities that were decimated by atomic bombs 70 years ago.

Los líderes religiosos de siete países que están en el proceso de adoptar la histórica decisión de apoyar o rechazar la prohibición de las armas nucleares emprenderán una peregrinación a principios de agosto hacia las dos ciudades japonesas que hace 70 años fueron diezmadas por las bombas atómicas.

„Wir leben in einer Zeit, in der die Öffentlichkeit ein größeres Bewusstsein für die Rechte indigener Völker entwickelt“, sagte Bischof Mark MacDonald, ÖRK-Präsident für Nordamerika und Nationaler Indigener Bischof der Anglikanischen Kirche von Kanada.

Bishop Mark MacDonald shared views on indigenous peoples and climate change in an interview with WCC Communications. "We are entering an era in which the public has a broader awareness of the rights of indigenous peoples," he said.

Estamos entrando en una era en la que el público tiene una mayor conciencia de los derechos de los pueblos indígenas, dijo Mark MacDonald, presidente del CMI para América del Norte y obispo nacional indígena de la Iglesia Anglicana del Canadá.

The WCC has condemned the mass killing at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina, United States.

Four weeks of negotiations on nuclear weapons came to a close on Friday 22 May, as the Review Conference of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty ended without a formal agreement. Despite the outcome, a bright new prospect towards a world without nuclear weapons has emerged in the form of a Humanitarian Pledge, now endorsed by 107 states, which promises “to fill the legal gap for the prohibition and elimination of nuclear weapons”.

„Atomwaffen sind mit den Werten unserer jeweiligen Glaubenstraditionen unvereinbar“, sagten Vertreterinnen und Vertreter von etwa 50 christlichen, buddhistischen, muslimischen und jüdischen Organisationen am 1. Mai. Die interreligiöse Erklärung wurde als gemeinsamer Aufruf an die 191 Regierungen gerichtet, die dem weltweit größten Abrüstungsabkommen angehören. Der Aufruf, mitgetragen vom ÖRK, wurde an der Konferenz zur Überprüfung des Vertrags über die Nichtverbreitung von Kernwaffen in New York im Rahmen von Referaten der Zivilgesellschaft gemacht.

“Nuclear weapons are incompatible with the values upheld by our respective faith traditions”, representatives of some 50 Christian, Buddhist, Muslim and Jewish organizations said on 1 May. The inter-religious statement came in a joint call to the 191 governments participating in the world’s largest disarmament treaty. The call, co-sponsored by the WCC, was made during civil society presentations to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty Review Conference in New York City.

«Las armas nucleares son incompatibles con los valores de nuestras respectivas tradiciones religiosas», declararon los representantes de en torno a 50 organizaciones cristianas, budistas, musulmanas y judías el pasado 1 de mayo. La declaración interreligiosa constituye un llamamiento común dirigido a los gobiernos de los 191 Estados que forman parte del tratado de desarme más importante del mundo. Este llamamiento, auspiciado conjuntamente con el Consejo Mundial de Iglesias, fue realizado durante las presentaciones de la sociedad civil en la conferencia de examen sobre el Tratado de No Proliferación Nuclear (TNP) que se celebró en Nueva York.

Ein Gerichtsurteil in der Dominikanischen Republik, das geschätzten 200'000 Dominikaner/innen haitianischer Abstammung die Staatsbürgerschaft aberkennt, wurde von Kirchenleitenden scharf kritisiert, so auch von der Leitenden Bischöfin der Bischöflichen Kirche in den Vereinigten Staaten.

A court decision in the Dominican Republic annulling the citizenship of an estimated 200,000 Dominicans of Haitian ancestry has been strongly criticized by church leaders, including the presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church.

La decisión judicial de la República Dominicana que anula la ciudadanía de una cifra que se estima en torno a los 200000 dominicanos de ascendencia haitiana ha sido duramente criticada por los líderes de las iglesias.

Ferguson is in turmoil. So is New York. And so is Union Theological Seminary in the city of New York, a long-standing institution of theological education located on the upper west side of Manhattan – or in West Harlem – since 1836.

The WCC Executive Committee has expressed deep concern over recent developments in the United States following the Grand Jury’s decision not to indict officer Darren Wilson in the killing of Michael Brown.

Evangelism in new contexts was the focus of a meeting last week in Atlanta, Georgia, United States, involving the WCC and the North American councils of churches. The meeting’s primary objective was to set the agenda for a larger consultation on evangelism in North America, slated before the end of 2015.