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The World Council of Churches (WCC) co-convened a workshop on 28 January to plan faith-based support for the 25-year review of the Beijing Platform for Action, a comprehensive international instrument for addressing the full range of issues faced by women globally.

In a pastoral letter to Australian churches, World Council of Churches general secretary Rev. Dr Olav Fykse Tveit acknowledged that the catastrophic fires in many parts of Australia have darkened the horizon in a time when much of the world is celebrating.

Dans une lettre pastorale adressée aux Églises australiennes, le secrétaire général du Conseil œcuménique des Églises, le pasteur Olav Fykse Tveit, prend acte que les incendies catastrophiques ravageant plusieurs régions australiennes ont assombri l’horizon en ce temps de célébrations dans la plupart des régions du monde.

The World Council of Churches (WCC) condemned an attack on a Hanukkah celebration at a rabbi´s home north of New York City, on 28 December, stabbing and wounding five people. Several state and local officials have described the location of stabbing as a synagogue.

Simultaneous attacks by extremist insurgents on a military base and Arbinda town in Soum province in the north of Burkina Faso resulted in the deaths of 35 civilians – almost all of them women – as well as seven soldiers. President Roch Marc Christian Kabore has declared 48 hours of national mourning, and all Christmas celebrations have been cancelled.

Churches across the Korean Peninsula will mark the year 2020 as a “jubilee year,” and, as they commemorate 70 years since the Korean War, religious leaders are pledging to redouble their ongoing efforts for stronger peace and reunification.

Les Églises de toute la péninsule coréenne fêteront l’année 2020 en tant qu’«année de jubilé» et, pour le 70ᵉ anniversaire de l’arrêt de la guerre de Corée, les responsables ecclésiastiques s’engagent à redoubler leurs efforts pour consolider la paix et la réunification.

The World Council of Churches (WCC) offers its congratulations to Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed as Nobel Peace Prize laureate 2019. Since his election as Prime Minister in April 2018, Mr Ahmed has championed an impressive programme of positive and inspiring reform initiatives, and played a decisive role in the reconciliation of the two synods and fostered unity of the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church. The achievement which this award particularly recognizes is his leadership in bringing an formal end to the twenty-year long fratricidal conflict between Ethiopia and Eritrea.

Le Conseil œcuménique des Églises (COE) transmet ses félicitations au Premier ministre éthiopien Abiy Ahmed, lauréat du prix Nobel de la paix 2019. Depuis son élection comme Premier ministre en avril 2018, M. Ahmed a pris la tête d’un impressionnant projet d’incitatives de réformes positives et stimulantes et a joué un rôle décisif dans la réconciliation des deux synodes, tout en favorisant l’unité de l’Église orthodoxe Tewahedo d’Éthiopie. Ce prix reconnaît plus particulièrement son rôle d’impulsion dans la résolution formelle du conflit fratricide qui oppose l’Éthiopie et l’Érythrée depuis vingt ans.

At an informal dialogue, faith leaders gathered with representatives from governments, civil society, academia, and the United Nations to talk about financing adaptation, and loss and damage, related to climate change.

Lors d’un dialogue informel, les leaders religieux ont rencontré des représentants des gouvernements, de la société civile, du monde universitaire et des Nations Unies pour discuter du financement de l’adaptation et des pertes et dommages liés au changement climatique.

The World Council of Churches invites all people of good will to observe a Sunday of Prayer for the Peaceful Reunification of the Korean Peninsula on 11 August.

Le Conseil œcuménique des Églises invite toutes les personnes de bonne volonté à observer, le 11 août, un «dimanche de prière pour la réunification pacifique de la péninsule coréenne».

At the Ecumenical Forum for Peace, Reunification and Development Cooperation on the Korean Peninsula, being held in Bangkok on 10-12 July, the World Council of Churches (WCC) reiterated its call for peace on the Korean Peninsula.

À l’occasion du Forum œcuménique pour la paix, la réunification et la coopération pour le développement dans la péninsule coréenne convoqué du 10 au 12 juillet, le Conseil œcuménique des Églises (COE) a réitéré son appel à la paix dans la péninsule coréenne.

South Sudanese church leaders continued to amplify hope for their country, as the people quietly marked the 8th Independence Day, without an official government celebration.
The world’s newest nation which became an independent state on 9 July 2011, is facing enormous challenges including insecurity, economic stagnation and famine due to a new conflict.

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.”

WCC News spoke to Rev. Douglas Leonard, coordinator of the Ecumenical United Nations Office and World Council of Churches (WCC) representative to the United Nations in New York, after attending a summit in Washington D.C. that brought together some 45 representatives of churches and faith-based organizations committed to developing an advocacy plan that responds to the current political situation in the Holy Land.

Religious communities’ significant role in creating safer, sustainable and inclusive cities has been underlined at the United Nations Habitat Assembly in the Kenyan capital Nairobi.

The National Council of Churches in Korea will join civil society organizations to create a “human chain” on 27 April alongside the Korean Demilitarized Zone to celebrate the first anniversary of the Panmunjom Declaration, as well as to break the current deadlock since the Hanoi Summit.