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The World Council of Churches (WCC), in partnership with CAPNI and UFUQ, is reaffirming its ongoing commitment to fostering sustainable peace through justice and inclusive citizenship in Iraq. This reaffirmation follows successful completion of a project to revise national educational curricula, promoting inclusive education and pedagogy.

As a year of exceptional and increasing conflict draws to a close, and as we pray for peace for all in 2024, “that prospect seems nowhere more remote than for the suffering and traumatized people of Gaza,” said World Council of Churches (WCC) general secretary Rev. Prof. Dr Jerry Pillay. 

قال الأمين العام لمجلس الكنائس العالمي القس البروفيسور الدكتور "جيري بيلاي": "مع اقتراب نهاية هذا العام الذي شهد نزاع استثنائي ومتزايد، ومع صلاتنا من أجل أن يعم السلام للجميع في عام 2024، إلا أن هذا الأمل يبدو بعيد المنال للشعب المصدوم الذي يعاني الأمرين في غزة".

World Council of Churches (WCC) general secretary Rev. Prof. Dr Jerry Pillay said the WCC is “deeply disturbed” by reports of continuous assaults on the Armenian community and other Palestinian residents of Jerusalem. 

Ministering to the needs of displaced people, most of them south of Gaza, the Department of Service to Palestinian Refugees of the Middle East Council of Churches has a clear message to the world. 

The World Council of Churches (WCC) supports a UN resolution, passed on 12 December 2023, demanding an immediate humanitarian ceasefire in the Gaza Strip. 

Sharing hopes and challenges for the search for peace on the Korean peninsula, members of the Ecumenical Forum for Peace, Reunification & Development on the Korean Peninsula (EFK) gathered for an informal meeting this week.

The Sixth World Conference on Faith and Order of the World Council of Churches (WCC), marking the 1700th anniversary of the first Ecumenical Council of Nicaea, is to take place in Egypt in October 2025 at the invitation of the Coptic Orthodox Church.

أصدر بطاركة ورؤساء الكنائس في القدس بياناً في 10 تشرين الثاني/نوفمبر حول الاحتفال بالمجيء وعيد الميلاد في خضم الحرب الجارية.

The Patriarchs and Heads of Churches in Jerusalem released a statement on 10 November about the celebration of Advent and Christmas in the midst of the war.

أصدرت اللجنة التنفيذية لمجلس الكنائس العالمي (WCC)، المجتمعة في مدينة أبوجا في نيجيريا خلال الفترة من 8 -14 تشرين الثاني/نوفمبر، بياناً تطالب فيه بوقفٍ فوريٍ لإطلاق النار، وفتح ممرات إنسانية في فلسطين وإسرائيل.

The World Council of Churches (WCC) executive committee, meeting in Abuja, Nigeria, on 8-14 November, released a statement that demands an immediate ceasefire, and the opening of humanitarian corridors in Palestine and Israel. 

The World Council of Churches (WCC) is standing in solidarity with the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Jerusalem, which issued a statement on 31 October condemning the Israeli military’s bombardment of the Orthodox Cultural Center in the Tel Al Hawa neighborhood of Gaza.

يدين مجلس الكنائس العالمي (WCC) الهجوم على أحد المباني داخل مجمع كنيسة القديس برفيريوس للروم الأرثوذوكس في غزة.فقد انهار المبنى التابع للكنيسة، التي تعد واحدة من أقدم الكنائس في غزة، في الانفجار الذي نجم عن الضربات الصاروخية الإسرائيلية، وفقاً لبطريركية الروم الأرثوذوكس في القدس.

On 27 October Korean Theology Forum on Climate Crisis organized a conference “The Response of the WCC to the Climate Crisis and its Policy for Carbon Neutrality” for the formation of church leaders, pastors and students interested in ways to connect local activities to the global horizon. The conference was sponsored by the Ministry of Culture, Sports, and Tourism of the Republic of Korea.