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Towards Nicaea 2025: Exploring the Council’s Ecumenical Significance Today

Applications are open for a Young Adults Training for Religious Amity program (YATRA) to be held in October.

Das ÖRK-Leitungsgremium erhielt am 14. Februar „Ein Neues Kommunikationspapier für das 21. Jahrhundert: Eine Vision der digitalen Gerechtigkeit“, ein in Vorbereitung auf die 11. ÖRK-Vollversammlung später im Jahr 2022 erstellter Text, der die Ergebnisse des im September 2021 abgehaltenen Symposiums über „Kommunikation für soziale Gerechtigkeit im digitalen Zeitalter“ berücksichtigt.

The WCC governing body on 14 February received “A New Communications Paper for the 21st Century: A vision of digital justice,” a text created in preparation for the WCC’s 11th Assembly later in 2022 that takes into account the results of a symposium on “Communication for Social Justice in a Digital Age” held in September 2021.

The study paper has been produced by the commission’s Working Group on Transforming Discipleship, which has been engaged since 2019 in a study process on the document “Arusha call to discipleship" in affirmation of the key place that discipleship holds across all levels of ecumenical work or denominational church work.

The paper "Converting Discipleship: Dissidence and Metanoia” aspires to move churches towards a transformation effected through discipleship. Addressing churches and communities locally, the document aims to inspire them to re-examine and finally re-shape their missional commitment.

The World Council of Churches (WCC) and the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue (PCID) released a joint document, “Serving a Wounded World in Interreligious Solidarity: A Christian Call to Reflection and Action During COVID-19 and Beyond.” Its purpose is to encourage churches and Christian organizations to reflect on the importance of interreligious solidarity in a world wounded by the COVID-19 pandemic. The document offers a Christian basis for interreligious solidarity that can inspire and confirm the impulse to serve a world wounded not only by COVID-19 but also by many other wounds.

In the reign of Jehoiakim, King of Judah, in 597 BCE, Babylonians attacked and carried the king and the elite into exile, alongside the articles or sacred utensils from the temple. An utterly humiliating experience like this could hardly be interpreted as being the will of God.

Tribulation” is certainly an appropriate description for the previously unimaginable scale of the COVID-19 pandemic. It has affected almost everyone around the world, whether through the direct impacts on our health or the health of our loved ones, the sudden restrictions on all our movements, or the fear of the virus arriving in our lives.

Collection of eight Bible studies to facilitate our coming to terms—as individuals, groups, and communities of faith—with the loss, fear, and confusion engendered by the pandemic, and the bracing prospect of building the world anew.

From the Old Jerusalem to the New: Lamentations to Blessings, Bible study in times of COVID-19 by Annika Mathews

Facing the Red Sea: Overcoming Fear by Using Your Gifts, Bible study in times of Covid-19 by Joy Eva Bohol

Healing the World: Sorrow without Fear, Bible study in times of Covid-19 on Psalms 42 and 43 by Benjamin Simon

Following Jesus requires consistency between the proclamation of our faith, liturgy and prayer, and the practice of justice that we develop, since the peace of God is a fruit of that justice. This gospel passage allows us to ask ourselves whether we are followers of Jesus.

Justice is a topic widely discussed in different disciplines, and it nearly always includes an adjective that accompanies or complements it and helps us make sense of the type of justice under discussion. Some examples include retributive justice, punitive justice, restorative justice, transitional justice, etc. But beyond this theoretical discussion, what does it mean to act in a just way in daily life? In our path as Christian women and men, what does it mean to be just?

A publication on eco-theologies and climate justice, entitled "Kairos for creation - Confessing hope for the earth,” has been released in Januarz 2020 by a group of international theological experts who met in June 2019 in Wuppertal, Germany.

We live in the time-space of uncreated grace, a gentle urgency that encourages us to live our contingency in view of eternity.

Now Jacob looked up and saw Esau coming, and four hundred men with him. So he divided the children among Leah and Rachel and the two maids. 2 He put the maids with their children in front, then Leah with her children, and Rachel and Joseph last of all. 3 He himself went on ahead of them, bowing himself to the ground seven times, until he came near his brother.

The Evangelical Church in Germany (EKD) has recently made available a discussion paper affirming the significance of Agenda 2030 and placing specific demands upon those in positions of responsibility within politics, civil society and churches. EKD Texte 130 - “Lent to us is the Star on which we live” The Agenda 2030: a Challenge to the Churches