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Das armenische Volk und die armenischen Kirchen bräuchten dringend eine „großzügige Antwort der internationalen Staatengemeinschaft auf die humanitären Bedürfnisse der Flüchtlinge aus Bergkarabach, insbesondere die humanitären Bedürfnisse von vulnerablen Frauen, Kindern, alten Menschen und Menschen mit Behinderungen sowie all jener, die keinen Zugang zu anderen Formen von Unterstützung haben“, heißt es in einer Erklärung, die der Exekutivausschuss des Ökumenischen Rates der Kirchen (ÖRK) auf seiner Tagung in Abuja, Nigeria, verabschiedet hat. 

Armenian people and churches urgently need “a generous international response to the humanitarian needs of the refugees who fled from Nagorno-Karabakh, especially vulnerable women, children, the elderly, and people with disabilities, and those without any other means of support,” the World Council of Churches (WCC) executive committee stated during its meeting in Abuja, Nigeria. 

In a letter to the European Union, the World Council of Churches (WCC) and Conference of European Churches express grave concern for the situation in the Caucasus related to the exodus of almost the entire ethnic Armenian population of Nagorno-Karabakh.

A World Council of Churches (WCC) delegation nearly reached the Lachin corridor on 19 September, the same day Azerbaijan launched attacks against Armenian forces in the Nagorno-Karabakh (Artsakh) region.

A World Council of Churches (WCC) delegation will visit the Armenian Apostolic Church on 18-22 September. The visit will include an audience with His Holiness Karekin II, the Patriarch and Catholicos of all Armenians.

In a letter to H.E. Zbigniew Rau, OSCE chairman-in-office, and minister of Foreign Affairs of Poland, World Council of Churches acting general secretary Rev. Prof. Dr Ioan Sauca and Dr Jørgen Skov Sørensen, general secretary of the Conference of European Churches, jointly appeal for urgent action by the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe to promote a just and sustainable peace in the Caucasus, following renewed violence in the region in which more than 100 lives have already been lost.

In a 23 November letter to Audrey Azoulay, director-general of UNESCO, World Council of Churches (WCC) interim general secretary Rev. Prof. Dr Ioan Sauca urged the protection of religious and cultural monuments the Nagorno-Karabakh/Artsakh region.

Der ÖRK-Exekutivausschuss hat eine Erklärung veröffentlicht und darin zu Besonnenheit und Weisheit nach sechs Wochen intensiver Kampfhandlungen um Bergkarabach/Arzach aufgerufen, seit zwischen Aserbaidschan, Armenien und Russland eine Waffenruhe ausgehandelt worden ist. Der Exekutivausschuss hat das Ende des Blutvergießens und der Zerstörungen begrüßt und einen „dauerhaften Frieden auf der Basis von Gerechtigkeit und Menschenrechten für die Menschen in Bergkarabach und der weiteren Region“ gefordert.

The WCC executive committee issued a statement calling for calm and wisdom following six weeks of intense fighting for Nagorno-Karabakh/Artsakh, suspended by an agreement announced between the leaders of Azerbaijan, Armenia and Russia. Welcoming an end to the bloodshed and destruction, the executive committee appealed for “a lasting peace founded on justice and human rights for the people of Nagorno-Karabakh/Artsakh and the wider region.”

World Council of Churches interim general secretary Rev. Prof. Dr Ioan Sauca expressed deep concern about the violations of the humanitarian ceasefire agreed between Armenia and Azerbaijan on 10 October.

Der Interims-Generalsekretär des ÖRK (Ökumenischer Rat der Kirchen), Pastor Prof. Dr. Ioan Sauca, zeigt sich tief besorgt über die erneute und extrem gefährliche Eskalation des Konfliktes in der umstrittenen Region Berg-Karabach seit dem 27. September, Berichten zufolge ausgelöst durch einen Angriff aserbaidschanischer Truppen. Die Folge sind Dutzende von Toten, darunter Zivilpersonen. Es besteht die Gefahr eines sich weiter ausbreitenden bewaffneten Konflikts in der Region.

World Council of Churches (WCC) interim general secretary Rev. Prof. Dr Ioan Sauca expressed grave concern over the renewed and very serious escalation of conflict in the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region since Sunday 27 September – reportedly following an attack by Azerbaijan’s military forces – which has already resulted in dozens of casualties including civilians, and which risks provoking a wider armed conflict in the region.

In a 23 July statement, Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia urged a peace resolution to the Armenian-Azerbaijani conflict, calling on both sides to enter into dialogue.