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The 70-year-old War Armistice Agreement should be replaced with a peace treaty, urged the World Council of Churches (WCC) central committee in a public statement. “In a time of renewed escalation of tensions and confrontation on the Korean Peninsula, we recall that this year marks the 70th anniversary of the 1953 Armistice Agreement which established a ceasefire, but not a formal end, to the Korean War,” reads the text. “We pray for peace and dialogue to end this dangerous cycle, and for denuclearization not only of the Korean Peninsula but of the entire world.”

Durante la visita de la delegación de dirigentes del Consejo Mundial de Iglesias (CMI) a Ucrania que tuvo lugar en mayo se celebró un servicio ecuménico de oración en Bucha, a las afueras de Kiev, el 12 de mayo. El servicio, oficiado por los dirigentes del CMI, con la participación del secretario general del CMI, Rev. Prof. Dr. Jerry Pillay; el moderador del Comité Central del CMI, el obispo Heinrich Bedford-Strohm, y el arzobispo Vicken Aykazian, así como de miembros del Consejo Ucraniano de Iglesias y Organizaciones Religiosas (UCCRO), tuvo lugar en la Iglesia ortodoxa de San Andrés de Bucha.

During the World Council of Churches (WCC) leadership delegation visit to Ukraine in May, an ecumenical prayer service was held in Bucha, on the outskirts of Kyiv, on 12 May. The service, led by the WCC leadership, WCC general secretary Rev. Prof. Dr Jerry Pillay, WCC moderator Bishop Heinrich Bedford-Strohm and Archbishop Vicken Aykazian, with participation of members of the Ukrainian Council of Churches and Religious Organizations (UCCRO), took place at St Andrew Orthodox Church in Bucha.

En una declaración pública, el Comité Ejecutivo del Consejo Mundial de Iglesias (CMI) ha pedido el cese permanente de las hostilidades en Sudán, donde la población afronta una catástrofe humanitaria tras semanas de intensos enfrentamientos entre el ejército de Sudán y las paramilitares Fuerzas de Apoyo Rápido

The World Council of Churches (WCC) executive committee, in a public statement, urged a permanent cessation of hostilities in Sudan, where people are facing a humanitarian catastrophe following weeks of intense fighting between the Sudanese Army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces.

World Council of Churches central committee moderator Bishop Dr Heinrich Bedford-Strohm delivered a lecture at the Kitzingen deanery, a regional church district near Würzburg, for the parishes of the deanery as well as for the public. The lecture, entitled “Just Peace through Military Force? Peace Ethical Considerations in Light of the War of Aggression against Ukraine,” was offered on 29 April

El moderador del Comité Central del Consejo Mundial de Iglesias, el obispo Dr. Heinrich Bedford-Strohm, ofreció el 29 de abril la conferencia titulada “¿Paz justa mediante la fuerza militar? Consideraciones éticas de la pacificación ante la guerra de agresión contra Ucrania” en el decanato de Kitzingen, distrito eclesiástico regional cercano a Würzburg, para las parroquias locales y el público general.

Esta semana, el secretario general del Consejo Mundial de Iglesias (CMI), Rev. Prof. Dr. Jerry Pillay, está visitando Moscú y reuniéndose con S.S. el patriarca Cirilo de Moscú y toda Rusia, y con representantes de la mayor iglesia miembro del CMI.

World Council of Churches (WCC) general secretary Rev. Prof. Dr Jerry Pillay is visiting Moscow this week, meeting with H.H. Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and all Russia, and representatives from the largest WCC member church.

Con motivo del 75o aniversario de lo que los palestinos denominan la Nakba o la “catástrofe”, refiriéndose al inicio del desplazamiento forzado de cientos de miles de personas a raíz de la creación del Estado de Israel en 1948, el secretario general del Consejo Mundial de Iglesias (CMI), el Rev. Prof. Dr. Jerry Pillay, expresó su solidaridad con las iglesias miembros en Tierra Santa.

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.

During an ecumenical morning prayer held 15 May, the World Council of Churches (WCC) staff and partners observed the UN International Day of Living Together in Peace, holding in prayer many nations across the world facing challenges to living together in harmony.

El secretario general del Consejo Mundial de Iglesias (CMI), Rev. Prof. Dr. Jerry Pillay, manifestó su profunda preocupación por la violencia étnica y comunitaria que estalló la semana pasada en el estado de Manipur al nordeste de la India entre la comunidad meitei mayoritariamente hindú y las comunidades tribales naga y kuki principalmente cristianas.

En una carta pastoral dirigida a las iglesias de Sudán del Sur y a Ayuda de la Iglesia Noruega, el secretario general del Consejo Mundial de Iglesias (CMI), el Rev. Prof. Dr. Jerry Pillay, expresó su conmoción y tristeza por la noticia del ataque contra vehículos de Ayuda de la Iglesia Noruega en Imehejek, Lopa Lafon, en la región de Ecuatoria Oriental de Sudán del Sur. 

World Council of Churches (WCC) general secretary Rev. Prof. Dr Jerry Pillay expressed deep concern about the ongoing ethnic and communal violence which flared up last week in India’s north-eastern State of Manipur, involving the Hindu majority Meitei community and the mostly Christian Naga and Kuki tribal communities.

In a pastoral letter to the churches of South Sudan and to Norwegian Church Aid, World Council of Churches (WCC) general secretary Rev. Prof. Dr Jerry Pillay expressed shock and sadness about the news of an attack on Norwegian Church Aid vehicles in Imehejek, Lopa Lafon, in the Eastern Equatoria region of South Sudan.

Church leaders in Papua, in a position statement directed toward government officials, said “the current situation is a human tragedy,” expressed grave concern about extrajudicial killings and other violence, and called for immediate measures for a sustainable peace.