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On 28 June, a World Council of Churches (WCC) intergenerational climate justice project was awarded the Keeling Curve Prize, a recognition for initiatives that offer solutions to reduce global warming. The WCC project supports adolescents engaging in climate justice through church-run schools, Sunday schools, and summer camps. The project stems from Churches’ Commitments to Children, a partnership between the WCC and UNICEF.

Faith leaders across the USA released on 9 July a jointly signed statement entitled “Back from the Brink: Faith leaders call for diplomacy, not war, with Iran.”

The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America has released “A 60-Day Journey Toward Justice in a Culture of Gun Violence,” a collection of daily observances that call people to face the painful truth of gun violence and work for its prevention.

Der Exekutivausschuss des Ökumenischen Rates der Kirchen (ÖRK) äußert seine Beunruhigung und Besorgnis über die jüngste Eskalation der Spannungen zwischen den USA und der Islamischen Republik Iran nach dem Rückzug der USA aus dem Atomabkommen mit dem Iran.

The World Council of Churches (WCC) Executive Committee expressed its concern and alarm at the recent escalation of tensions between the USA and the Islamic Republic of Iran, following the US withdrawal from the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, known as the “Iran Nuclear Deal.”

An der Feier des Gedenkgottesdienstes in der Kapelle des Ökumenischen Zentrums ehrte der Exekutivausschuss des Ökumenischen Rates der Kirchen (ÖRK) am 24. Mai das Leben, Zeugnis und den Dienst von Pastorin Robina Winbush und Pastor Norman Tendis.

During a service of remembrance and celebration in the Ecumenical Centre Chapel on 24 May, the World Council of Churches (WCC) Executive Committee commemorated the lives, witness and ministry of Rev. Robina Winbush and Rev. Norman Tendis.

In the wake of the Easter Sunday terrorist attacks in Sri Lanka, the Omnia Institute for Contextual Leadership, based in Chicago, lifted up points of hope that peace will win in the end. In a 25 April message, Shanta Premawardhana, president of the institute, wrote that every person of every faith of every nation deserves to wake up in peace. “Every child deserves to feel safe, welcomed, and alive to the promise that each day brings,” Premawardhana wrote. “I'm sure you know that this is why we build Interfaith Peacemaker Teams in Sri Lanka.”

„Was kann ein Mensch schon ausrichten“ – das ist ein Satz, der häufig Frustration und Ohnmacht ausdrückt.

Für die Kampagne Donnerstags in Schwarz kann ein Mensch aber den entscheidenden Unterschied bedeuten.

David Emmanuel Goatley, Fakultätsleiter der Abteilung für Schwarze Kirchenstudien an der Theologischen Fakultät der Duke University in North Carolina (USA), erfuhr durch sein Engagement für den Pilgerweg der Gerechtigkeit und des Friedens des Ökumenischen Rates der Kirchen von der Kampagne Donnerstags in Schwarz. Inzwischen hat er die Kampagne über seine Abteilung auch an der Duke University eingeführt.

“What can one person do” can often sound like a lament about powerlessness.

For Thursdays in Black, though, one person can build a movement.

David Emmanuel Goatley, Faculty Director of the Office of Black Church Studies at Duke University Divinity School in North Carolina, USA, learned about Thursdays in Black through his involvement with the World Council of Churches’ Pilgrimage of Justice and Peace. He has now launched the campaign through the Office at Duke University.

Catholics, Lutherans, Methodists, Anglicans and Reformed discern further steps towards deeper ecclesial communion and common witness during a consultation at the University of Notre Dame in Indiana, United States from 26 to 28 March.

(Kommunikation LWB) – Mit einem ökumenischen Gottesdienst in der Herz-Jesu-Basilika der Notre Dame-Universität (Indiana, USA) ist eine viertägige Konferenz unter Beteiligung von fünf weltweiten christlichen Gemeinschaften eröffnet worden, die sich mit der historischen Bedeutung der Gemeinsamen Erklärung zur Rechtfertigungslehre (GE) und ihrer Relevanz für das Streben nach voller, sichtbarer Einheit der Kirche auseinandersetzt.

(LWF Communication) – An ecumenical prayer service in the Basilica of the Sacred Heart at the University of Notre Dame in Indiana, United States, marked the opening of a four-day consultation of five Christian World Communions discussing the historic importance of the Joint Declaration on the Doctrine of Justification (JDDJ) and its impact on the search for full, visible unity of the church.

After a visit to Israel and Palestine on 21 February through 1 March, a delegation of South African and African-American church leaders, released a Group Pilgrimage Statement on Israel and Palestine.

Ten years ago, while studying to become a nurse, Khadijah Abdullah was confronted at a hospital with a rather difficult patient, a Muslim living with AIDS who was also coping with several other medical issues. When Abdullah realized how isolated and stigmatized this patient was in his own faith community, she became aware of her prejudices and ignorance and she decided to do something about it.

Bishop Ingeborg Midttømme, from the Church of Norway, serves at the diocese of Møre, in the northwestern part of the Scandinavian country. She is also a board member of Norwegian Church Aid. Over the past years, she has been an active participant in international events that focus on the global agenda on sustainable development, such as the United Nations annual climate conferences.

„In der Finanzierung einer nachhaltigen Entwicklung kommt eine Ethik der Solidarität und des Miteinanderteilens zum Ausdruck, die auch die zukünftigen Generationen umfasst, denen wir alles Gute und Schlechte hinterlassen, das wir bewirken“, so die Botschaft von Peter Prove, Direktor der ÖRK-Kommission der Kirchen für internationale Angelegenheiten, im Rahmen eines Symposiums, das am 29. Januar am Sitz der Vereinten Nationen in New York stattfand.

“Financing for sustainable development represents the expression of an ethic of solidarity and sharing, including with generations that come after us and who will inherit whatever good or evil we have wrought”, said Peter Prove, director of International Affairs at the World Council of Churches (WCC) in a symposium at the United Nations headquarters, in New York, on 29 January.

Respect for the other lies at the heart of peace education and was a key thread through a debate entitled “Education for Peace in a multi-religious world”. It was held on the 2018 World Human Rights Day at the United Nations Office in Geneva.

„Ich hoffe, dass dieser Ansatz einer ‚gesundheitsfördernde Kirche‘ weltweit noch weiter Anklang finden wird“, sagt Dr. Suzanne Jackson von der Universität Toronto, die das Kollaborationszentrum für Gesundheitsförderung der Weltgesundheitsorganisation leitet.