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The World Council of Churches welcomed historic meetings on 5-6 March between a South Korean special envoy delegation and North Korean leadership in Pyongyang, the first high-level direct talks between the two Koreas in more than a decade.

Vom 7. – 16. Januar besuchen der Generalsekretär des Ökumenischen Rates der Kirchen (ÖRK), Pastor Dr. Olav Fykse Tveit, sowie eine Delegation des ÖRK Mitgliedskirchen in China.

In einem kurzen Interview beschreibt Tveit die Freude, die Feierlichkeiten zum 70. Jubiläum des ÖRK gemeinsam mit dem Chinesischen Christenrat zu beginnen.

World Council of Churches (WCC) general secretary Rev. Dr Olav Fykse Tveit and a WCC delegation are visiting member churches in China from 7-16 January.

In a brief interview, Tveit describes the joy of uniting with the China Christian Council to begin celebration of the WCC’s 70th anniversary.

Der Generalsekretär des Ökumenischen Rates der Kirchen (ÖRK), Pastor Dr. Olav Fykse Tveit, wird gemeinsam mit einer ÖRK-Delegation vom 7. bis zum 16. Januar Mitgliedskirchen in China besuchen.
Dieser historische Besuch bildet den Auftakt zu den Feiern anlässlich des 70-jährigen Bestehens des ÖRK.

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.

The World Council of Churches and the National Council of Churches of Christ in the USA grieve with the families of those who lost their lives in the mass shooting that took place in Las Vegas, Nevada, on the night of October 1, 2017. We pray for those whose lives have been shattered by this senseless act and lift up those who will be recovering years to come.

As they gathered in Jakarta, Indonesia from September 2-8 to prepare resources for the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity 2019, ecumenical partners reflected on the theme of “Justice, and only justice, you shall pursue.”

The need for the ecumenical movement is an urgent one today, said World Council of Churches (WCC) general secretary Rev Dr. Olav Fykse Tveit as he spoke this week at the College of Saint Benedict and Saint John's University in Minnesota (USA).

The general secretary of the World Council of Churches (WCC), Rev. Dr Olav Fykse Tveit, met with church leaders and politicians in Wellington, Aotearoa New Zealand last week. The meeting occurred almost one year after his latest visit to the region. On request of the church leaders a meeting took place with political leaders to discuss follow-up on the Paris Agreement, peace in the Middle East and on the Korean Peninsula, and the challenges the region is facing.

On Saturday in Charlottesville, one woman died and 19 others were injured when a man who, after rallying with white supremacist groups, rammed his car into a crowd. Earlier in the day, two law enforcement officers lost their lives when their helicopter crashed as they patrolled the building crowds.

Da die Atomwaffenentwicklung Nordkoreas und die wachsenden Spannungen zwischen den Vereinigten Staaten und Nordkorea eine neue Dimension erreicht haben und die Welt an den Rand eines Krieges bringen können, fordern die Kirchen überall auf der Welt einen bilateralen Dialog und setzen damit auf eine friedliche und gewaltfreie Lösung des Konfliktes.

As the recent developments of nuclear weapons and increased tensions between United States and North Korea leaders can bring the world to the brink of war, churches around the world are calling for bilateral dialogue, expressing their commitment to peace and nonviolent resolution.

The World Evangelical Alliance (WEA) is the latest participating organization to announce it will join, on 13 August, a “Sunday of Prayer for the Peaceful Reunification of the Korean Peninsula.”

Churches across the world are invited to show solidarity with Korean churches by joining the prayer, based on Romans 14:19: “Let us then pursue what makes for peace and for mutual upbuilding.”

Am 13. August werden Kirchen überall auf der Welt aufgefordert, Solidarität mit den koreanischen Kirchen zu zeigen und an einem „Gebetssonntag für die friedliche Wiedervereinigung der koreanischen Halbinsel" teilzunehmen.

On 13 August, churches across the world are invited to show solidarity with Korean churches by joining a “Sunday of Prayer for the Peaceful Reunification of the Korean Peninsula.”

Bei einem bewegenden Gottesdienst am 8. Juli leiteten in der Bethanienkirche in Leipzig ein nordkoreanischer und ein südkoreanischer Pastor gemeinsam die Abendmahlsliturgie. Der Gottesdienst bildete den feierlichen Abschluss einer Tagung, die die dringende Notwendigkeit unterstrich, ökumenische Antworten auf die gefährliche Eskalation der Spannungen auf der koreanischen Halbinsel zu finden.

In a moving worship service on 8 July in Bethanienkirche, Leipzig, Germany, a pastor from North Korea Rev. Kang Myong-chol, Chair of the Korean Christians Federation and a pastor from South Korea Rev. Kim Young-ju, general secretary of the National Council of Churches in Korea presided over Holy Communion together, closing a meeting that underscored the need for urgent ecumenical responses to the dangerously escalating tensions on the Korean peninsula.

Zum Abschluss der Tagung eines vom ÖRK initiierten Forums, das sich mit dem Thema Frieden auf der koreanischen Halbinsel beschäftigt, haben die Teilnehmenden aus aller Welt, die vielfältige Kirchen repräsentierten, ihre Entschlossenheit bekundet, die Christinnen und Christen in Nord- und Südkorea bei ihren Bemühungen um Frieden, Versöhnung und Entwicklung gemeinsam zu begleiten.

As a WCC-convened forum on peace on the Korean Peninsula came to a close, participants from around the world, representing many churches, vowed to work together in accompanying the Christians of North and South Korea in their efforts for peace, reconciliation, and development.

As a retired person in his late 60s, Frederick “Fred” Rainger often asks himself: ”what can I stop doing?” His days are filled with engagements in community activities and it hasn’t gotten any less busy since he became more involved in the Palestine Israel Ecumenical Network (PIEN), a network of Australian Christians seeking lasting peace for the people of Palestine and Israel.