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The World Council of Churches (WCC) is planning a year of activities in 2025 to mark the 1700th anniversary of the first Ecumenical Council at Nicaea in 325, a key moment in the history of Christian faith and for the ecumenical journey today.

From 2020 to 2021, more than 50 million people were displaced due to weather events and faced risks of trafficking and even death as well as discrimination based on race and gender. This finding emerged from the report of Ian Fry, special rapporteur on the promotion and protection of human rights in the context of climate change, to the 53rd session of the United Nations (UN) Human Rights Council meeting in Geneva from 19 June-14 July.

The World Council of Churches (WCC), in its contribution to the seminar “Social justice in the world of work and beyond: from common values to common engagement and action,” reflected on the dignity of work, justice and solidarity in the workplace.

Der Klimanotstand verursache weltweit bereits ernstzunehmende Ernährungsunsicherheit, erfuhren die Mitglieder des Zentralausschusses des Ökumenischen Rates der Kirchen (ÖRK) in einer Plenarsitzung am 23. Juni – und fügten dann hinzu, dass Klimagerechtigkeit nicht nur eine Frage des Glaubens sei, sondern auch eine Sache, die zu aktivem Engagement verpflichte.

The climate emergency is already causing serious food insecurity on a global scale, members of the World Council of Churches (WCC) central committee heard at a plenary session on 23 June—and they added that climate justice is a matter of both faith and action.

Der Ökumenischer Rat der Kirchen (ÖRK) versammelte sich am 5. Juni zusammen mit dem Lutheranischen Weltbund (LWB), Soka Gakkai International und Brahma Kumaris in Bonn, Deutschland zu einem Nebenevent mit dem Titel „Deliver climate action: Support a Robust Global Stocktake from a human rights and Ethical perspective“ (Effektiver Klimaschutz: Unterstützung einer robusten globalen Bestandsaufnahme aus menschenrechtlicher und ethischer Perspektive). Beim Event versammelten sich Expertinnen und Experten sowie Stakeholder und betonten, wie wichtig es sei, bei der nächsten globalen Bestandsaufnahme Menschenrechte, ethische Faktoren und Klimaschutz zu berücksichtigen.

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.

The World Council of Churches (WCC), in collaboration with the Lutheran World Federation (LWF), Soka Gakkai International, and Brahma Kumaris, convened a side event titled "Deliver climate action: Support a Robust Global Stocktake from a human rights and Ethical perspective," on 5 June in Bohn, Germany. The event brought together experts and stakeholders to emphasize the importance of integrating human rights, ethical considerations, and climate justice into the forthcoming Global Stocktake process.

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".

Im Rahmen des Barbados Gospelfests hielt der karibische Co-Koordinator des Ökumenischen Aktionsbündnisses von und für Menschen mit Behinderungen des Ökumenischen Rates der Kirchen, Pastor Dr. Gordon Cowans, am 22. Mai einen öffentlichen Vortrag zum Thema „Das Leben von Menschen mit Behinderungen berühren: Frei, einfach zu sein.“