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The World Council of Churches (WCC) Permanent Committee on Consensus and Collaboration will meet from 25 February - 2 March at Kartause Ittingen, Switzerland. The committee will share its preparations for the WCC 11th Assembly to be held in Karlsruhe, Germany in September 2021. The group will also make decisions regarding a report to the assembly.

Beate Fagerli, World Council of Churches (WCC) assembly coordinator, answers the most frequently asked questions about the upcoming WCC 11th Assembly in 2021.

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.

Jürgen Moltmann looked astonished when he saw his name on the list of contributors. In a recent dinner at the Ecumenical Institute in Bossey, my colleague Stephen Brown, the editor of The Ecumenical Review, surprised him with a 50-year old brochure.

Jürgen Moltmann a paru interloqué de voir son nom figurer sur la liste des contributeurs. Il a été surpris lors d’un récent dîner à l’Institut œcuménique de Bossey par une brochure vieille de 50 ans que lui a tendue mon collègue Stephen Brown, rédacteur en chef de l’Ecumenical Review.

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.

As he shared the perspective of an indigenous person at a side event during the 25th Conference of Parties (COP25) of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change in Madrid, Rev. Glen Chebon Kernell, urged people to adopt a deep respect for Mother Earth.

“Nationalist power politics is no longer interested in truth. They wage war under the guise of peace, a hybrid form of war with economic sanctions and cyber wars, fake news and lies,” affirmed Prof. Dr Jürgen Moltmann at the opening of his public lecture at the headquarters of the World Council of Churches (WCC) in Geneva, 2 December.

«La politique des puissances nationalistes ne s’intéresse plus à la vérité. Ces puissances mènent la guerre sous l’apparence de la paix, une forme hybride de la guerre, assortie de sanctions économiques et de cyberguerres, d’informations truquées et de mensonges», a affirmé le professeur Jürgen Moltmann en introduction de la conférence publique qu’il a donnée le 2 décembre à Genève, au siège du Conseil œcuménique des Églises (COE).

The upcoming World Council of Churches (WCC) assembly in Karlsruhe, Germany, was on the agenda of a recent meeting of the Conference of European Churches in Finland. Dr Marc Witzenbacher, the local WCC assembly coordinator, talked about the organizational process of the gathering, and also invited European churches to have significant participation in the assembly.

L’Assemblée du Conseil œcuménique des Églises (COE) qui se tiendra à Karlsruhe, en Allemagne, était à l’ordre du jour d’une récente réunion de la Conférence des Églises européennes en Finlande. M. Marc Witzenbacher, coordinateur local de l’Assemblée du COE, a parlé du processus organisationnel de ce rassemblement, et a invité les Églises européennes à y participer pleinement.

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.

Maltese creators of the newly available materials for the upcoming Week of Prayer for Christian Unity have focused on hospitality to the stranger as their theme, evoking the shipwrecked Apostle Paul’s statement that “They showed us unusual kindness” there (Acts 28:2).

Les Maltais-es responsables de la création des documents désormais disponibles pour la prochaine Semaine de prière pour l’unité des chrétiens ont fait de l’hospitalité offerte à la personne étrangère leur thème, évoquant le récit du naufrage de l’apôtre Paul qui déclare que, là-bas, «Les autochtones nous ont témoigné une humanité peu ordinaire» (Ac 28,2).

Virag Kinga Mezei is a Hungarian intern for the World Council of Churches (WCC) Commission of the Churches on International Affairs. With a passion for human rights, she regularly engages in discussions while also getting training through the WCC on mechanisms that lead to the achievement of racial and social justice.

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.