Human rights violations in Israel and Palestine have nearly tripled during the past year, according to reports from the most recent set of ecumenical accompaniers from the World Council of Churches (WCC) Ecumenical Accompaniment Programme in Palestine and Israel.
Iranian rector Ayatollah M. Seyyed Abolhassan Nawab and Ms Zahra Sedigh, from the Iranian Mission to the UN,visited the World Council of Churches (WCC) on 27 July, discussing education and formation, as well as the importance of strengthening the role of interreligious cooperation.
تتوفر الآن موارد – بما في ذلك تأملات وصلوات والمزيد – لمساعدة الكنائس وجميع الأشخاص ذوي النوايا الحسنة للاحتفال بالأسبوع العالمي للسلام في فلسطين وإسرائيل خلال الفترة من 16-23 سبتمبر/أيلول 2023.
World Council of Churches (WCC) general secretary Rev. Prof. Dr Jerry Pillay shared a message with the International Conference on the 70th Anniversary of Armistice Agreement in the Korean Peninsula, which will take place on 27 July.
قام السفير إبراهيم خريشة، من بعثة فلسطين لدى سويسرا؛ والسفير الدكتور عمر عوض الله، مساعد الوزير لشؤون الأمم المتحدة والمنظمات المتخصصة؛ ودعاء نوفل، السكرتير الثاني في البعثة المراقبة الدائمة لدولة فلسطين لدى الأمم المتحدة والمنظمات الدولية الأخرى في جنيف، بزيارة إلى مجلس الكنائس العالمي (WCC) في 6 يوليو/تموز لمناقشة الوضع الراهن في فلسطين.
Ambassador Ibrahim Khraishi, Mission of Palestine to Switzerland; Ambassador Dr Omar Awadallah, assistant minister for United Nations and Specialized Organizations; and Doa Nofal, second secretary at the Permanent Observer Mission of the State of Palestine to the United Nations and other International Organizations in Geneva, visited the World Council of Churches (WCC) on 6 July to discuss the current situation in Palestine.
Resources—including reflections, prayers, and more—are now available to help churches and all people of good will to observe the World Week for Peace in Palestine and Israel from 16-23 September 2023.
World Council of Churches (WCC) general secretary Rev. Prof. Dr Jerry Pillay called for an end to the Israeli military’s assault in Jenin. The WCC condemns the assault and calls for the cessation of all violence in the West Bank including that from Israeli settlers.
World Council of Churches (WCC) president for Eastern Orthodox Churches Metropolitan Vasilios of Ammochostos has three-quarters of his diocese on the island of Cyprus under Turkish occupation, but no Christians are still living in the occupied part.
أعربت اللجنة المركزية لمجلس الكنائس العالمي عن قلقها المستمر إزاء أزمتين إقليميتين كبيرتين في شرق البحر الأبيض المتوسط: الأزمة في فلسطين وإسرائيل، والأزمة في قبرص.وأشار محضر اجتماع صادر عن مجلس الإدارة إلى أن "هذه النزاعات ذات الدوافع السياسية أدت إلى احتلال غير قانوني امتد لعقود".
World Council of Churches (WCC) general secretary Rev. Prof. Dr Jerry Pillay sent warm greetings to the commemoration of the 10th anniversary of the Peace Train project, which works for peace on the Korean Peninsula.
The WCC central committee expressed continuous concern about two significant territorial crises in the eastern Mediterranean: those within Palestine and Israel, and those within Cyprus. “These politically driven conflicts have resulted in illegal occupations that have spanned decades,” reads a minute released by the governing body.
The latest group of World Council of Churches (WCC) ecumenical accompaniers reported incidents between 14 April and 22 May that ranged from violence to displacement, from harassment to intimidation in the West Bank.
In an exclusive interview, a prominent figure in the field of peace and justice, the former general secretary of National Council of Churches in Korea and former executive secretary for the Christian Conference of Asia, Rev. Hong-Jung Lee, shared insights into his journey and experiences working towards peace and justice in the Korean Peninsula. Drawing on his extensive experience and involvement in various ecumenical organizations, he shed light on the importance of healing, reconciliation, and the role of churches and Christians in advancing peace in Korea.
World Council of Churches (WCC) Rev. Prof. Dr Jerry Pillay expressed concern over a violent protest by rightwing Jewish activists against an Evangelical Christian event in Jerusalem on 28 May.
World Council of Churches (WCC) general secretary Rev. Prof. Dr Jerry Pillay shared joyful congratulations with Archbishop Hosam Naoum, who was installed as new primate of Anglican Episcopal Church in Jerusalem and the Middle East.
خلال الذكرى الخامسة والسبعين للنكبة، أو "الكارثة"، الفلسطينية - حين تمّ تهجير مئات الآلاف من الفلسطينيين أثناء قيام دولة إسرائيل في عام 1948- أعرب الأمين العام لمجلس الكنائس العالمي، القس البروفسور الدكتور "جيري بيلاي" عن تضامنه مع الكنائس الأعضاء في الأرض المقدسة.
Marking 75 years since Al-Nakba—the Arabic term for the events of 1948, when many Palestinians were displaced from their homeland by the creation of the new state of Israel—religious leaders reflected on what Al-Nakba means today.
During the 75th commemoration of what Palestinians refer to as the nakba, or “catastrophe”—when hundreds of thousands of people were uprooted during Israel's creation in 1948—World Council of Churches (WCC) general secretary Rev. Prof. Dr Jerry Pillay expressed solidarity with member churches in the Holy Land.
