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At the United Nations Office at Geneva on 15 March, World Council of Churches (WCC) general secretary Rev. Dr Olav Fykse Tveit joined a panel speaking on the theme “Islam and Christianity, the Great Convergence: Working jointly towards equal citizenship rights.”

Le 15 mars, au Geneva Centre, le pasteur Olav Fykse Tveit, secrétaire général du COE, a participé à une table ronde sur le thème: «L’Islam et le christianisme, la grande convergence: œuvrer ensemble pour l’égalité des droits à la citoyenneté».

Athena Peralta is dedicated to observing and encouraging people who are defending their livelihood and defending creation across the world. “There is so much injustice in this world that it is really something beautiful to learn about and be able to accompany, even in tiny ways, struggles of communities and churches,” she said.

“Now is the time for someone to take action, to start building that bridge. It is possible, if we all contribute our part,” said WCC general secretary Rev. Dr Olav Fykse Tveit in Oslo, Norway on 17 February. Speaking at a convention of union members and political leaders, Tveit offered the final reflection on a day under the theme ”Bridges to the future”.

«Il est maintenant temps que quelqu'un prenne des mesures et se mette à construire ce pont. Cela est possible, si chacun d'entre nous fait sa part», a déclaré le secrétaire général du COE, le pasteur Olav Fykse Tveit, à Oslo, en Norvège, le 17 février dernier.

Is religion discriminating? Does there exist discrimination within and by different religions? World Council of Churches general secretary Rev. Dr Olav Fykse Tveit explored these questions with fellow panelists in Trondheim, Norway.

La religion est-elle discriminatoire? Existe-t-il une discrimination dans les religions et de leur part? Telles sont les questions que le pasteur Olav Fykse Tveit, secrétaire général du COE, a abordées le 14 février dernier au cours d’une conférence à laquelle il participait avec d’autres intervenants dans un centre culturel de Trondheim, en Norvège.

In a country where Christians are in clear minority, often suffering discrimination, and in a context that has seen repeated frictions and violence between people of different religious traditions, the Church of Norway and Church of Pakistan have broken new ecumenical ground during a recent week in Lahore, Pakistan.

Dans un pays où les chrétiens sont clairement en minorité, souffrant souvent de la discrimination, et dans un contexte qui a connu à diverses reprises les frictions et la violence entre adeptes de différentes traditions religieuses, l'Église de Norvège et l'Église du Pakistan ont récemment lancé une expérience œcuménique inédite, à Lahore, au Pakistan.

World Council of Churches general secretary Rev. Dr Olav Fykse Tveit preached on New Year’s Day in the Church of Ås in Norway. Tveit not only observed the first day of 2017 but also commemorated the 150th anniversary of Ås Church, as well as 500 years of Reformation.

Analyzing efforts to protect religious communities and groups and build peace in Syria and Iraq, the WCC and Norwegian Church Aid presented a joint study on protection needs of religious and ethnic minorities in Syria and Iraq. The findings were announced on 12 December to the media and public at the Palais des Nations in Geneva.

Une étude sur les besoins de protection des minorités religieuses et ethniques en Syrie et en Irak, analysant les efforts à mener pour protéger les minorités religieuses et consolider la paix dans la région, a été présentée conjointement par le Conseil œcuménique des Églises (COE) et l’Aide de l’Église norvégienne (NCA). Les conclusions de l’étude ont été annoncées le 12 décembre aux médias et au grand public au Palais des Nations, à Genève.

If we do not adjust aid better to the needs of the minorities in Syria and northern Iraq, we run the risk of building walls instead of bridges. As the populations of Syria and Iraq feel the toll of armed conflicts in their countries, the World Council of Churches and Norwegian Church Aid are now releasing a unique joint study, “Protection needs of minorities from Syria and Iraq,” today, 28 November, in Oslo, Norway.

Four short videos sharing challenges and examples of how churches and church leaders can make a profound difference in global efforts to end AIDS as a public health threat are now available for individual inspiration and group discussion.

Green Cross International has launched a new edition of The Future We Want photo exhibition for 2016 at the United Nations in Geneva. It features a number of its new partner organizations from around the world, including the WCC.

Thirty-five years into the response to HIV and AIDS, it remains a disease that not only thrives on, but exploits the lines of exclusion and inequality in society. In the Philippines, where there has been an alarming increase in people testing positive for HIV, the country’s National Council of Churches recognized that more than words were needed. While dialogue and debate were important, they needed to translate into action, given the ever-widening gap between the rich and the poor in Filipino society, and a faith-based and societal milieu still dominated by a sex-negative theology.

Kerlan Fanagel’s submission to the Human Rights Council (HRC), delivered on the council’s 10th anniversary, highlighted the plight of the Lumad in Mindanao, a group of people who have been displaced from their traditional lands in the southern Philippines.

Hope in a Pilgrimage of Justice and Peace formed the integral thread for proceedings at the meeting of the Central Committee of the WCC in Trondheim, Norway this week. The 2016 meeting took place 22-28 June, the second gathering since the Central Committee was elected at the WCC 10th Assembly in Busan, Republic of Korea in 2013.

L’espérance en un Pèlerinage de justice et de paix constituait le fil conducteur des travaux du Comité central du Conseil œcuménique des Églises (COE), qui s’est réuni à Trondheim, en Norvège.

Churches are engaged at the grassroots level throughout the world in the response to HIV and AIDS, but the struggle against the disease and those stigmatized for being HIV positive needs to continue, say church leaders.