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La población y las iglesias armenias necesitan urgentemente “una respuesta internacional generosa que permita atender las necesidades humanitarias de los refugiados que han huido de Nagorno Karabaj, sobre todo de las mujeres vulnerables, los niños, los ancianos, las personas con discapacidad y las personas que no tienen otros medios de subsistencia”, afirmó el Comité Ejecutivo del Consejo Mundial de Iglesias (CMI) durante su reunión en Abuja (Nigeria). 

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.

El Comité Ejecutivo del CMI ha emitido una declaración que pide calma y sabiduría, tras seis semanas de enfrentamientos por la provincia de Nagorno Karabaj (Artsaj), suspendidos a raíz del acuerdo anunciado entre los dirigentes de Azerbaiyán, Armenia y Rusia. El Comité Ejecutivo celebra el cese del derramamiento de sangre y de la destrucción, e insta al establecimiento de una “paz duradera basada en la justicia y los derechos humanos para el pueblo de Nagorno Karabaj (Artsaj) y de toda la región”.

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.

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.

El secretario general interino del Consejo Mundial de Iglesias (CMI), Rev. Prof. Dr. Ioan Sauca, manifestó su profunda preocupación por la nueva y muy seria intensificación del conflicto en la disputada región de Nagorno Karabaj desde el domingo, 27 de septiembre –según se informa, después de un ataque por parte de las fuerzas militares de Azerbaiyán– que ya ha causado docenas de víctimas, incluidos civiles, y que amenaza con provocar un conflicto armado de mayores proporciones en la región.

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.