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Applications are open for the Ecumenical Institute at Bossey’s 2024 interfaith summer course, during which students earn a Certificate of Advanced Studies in Interreligious Studies.

The Thursdays in Black campaign now has a Youth Edition, developed by young people who are building a network in support of a world free from rape and violence. 

The World Council of Churches (WCC) Commission on World Mission and Evangelism, at a meeting in London from 1-5 December, hosted by United Society of Partners in the Gospel, explored the concept of mission as reparatory justice. 

The World Council of Churches (WCC) Commission on World Mission and Evangelism (CWME) planning group met on 23-25 November, praying together and envisioning the future with a focus on the WCC Strategic Plan.

The Churches’ Commission for Migrants in Europe, at its General Assembly held in Rome on 6-8 November, published a message entitled “Protect people, protect our humanity.”

The World Council of Churches (WCC) will host on event on 10-12 in Geneva that will bring together young Black European Christians who will begin to share their ideas and visions for mission and ecumenism.

Die Kirchen bekunden ihre Solidarität mit den Flüchtlingen auf der italienischen Insel Lampedusa, wo letzte Woche Tausende Migrantinnen und Migranten ankamen, was die lokalen Ressourcen überlastete. 

World Council of Churches (WCC) programme director for Unity, Mission, and Ecumenical Formation Rev. Dr Kuzipa Nalwamba offered a recorded greeting for the “Together: Gathering of the People of God” event in Rome taking place 29 September-1 October.

Churches are expressing solidarity with refugees in Lampedusa, the Italian island on which thousands of migrants arrived last week, overloading local resources.

„Eines sage ich jungen Leuten immer, wenn sie mit dem Steward-Programm beginnen: Seien Sie äußerst vorsichtig. Die Ökumene ist ansteckend – sobald Sie sich auf dieses umwerfende Erlebnis einlassen, fangen Sie an, anders über die Kirche zu denken. Das ist kein Nachteil“, sagte der Ökumenischen Rates der Kirchen (ÖRK)-Generalsekretär, Pastor Prof. Dr. Jerry Pillay in seiner Willkommensrede an die jungen Erwachsenen aus aller Welt, die am 16. Juni im Ökumenischen Zentrum in Vorbereitung auf die Zentralausschusstagung (21.-27. Juni in Genf) als Stewards empfangen wurden. 

 “There’s one thing I always say to young people when you start off in the stewards programme– be very careful, because the ecumenical bug gets you as this is a mind blowing exposure and you start to think about the church in a very different way – and this is not a bad thing", remarked World Council of Churches (WCC) general secretary Rev. Prof. Dr Jerry Pillay in his welcoming address to the young people from all over the world who were welcomed at the Ecumenical Centre on 16 June as stewards, in preparation for the upcoming central committee which is taking place 21-27 June in Geneva. 

As a search continued for missing migrants after a fishing boat capsized off the coast of Greece, the World Council of Churches (WCC) conveyed prayers to the families of victims, and to the churches in Greece and elsewhere that are responding.

On 30 June, the World Council of Churches and Churches’ Commission for Migrants in Europe will host a conversation “remembering all victims of Whiteness, with a particular focus on “The Criminalisation of Blackness and the Toxicity of ‘Greener Pastures".