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The sun was just setting over Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt when hundreds of protestors turned towards the main plenary hall of COP27 – the United Nations climate change conference – to raise their fists into the air, shouting ‘Pay up! Pay up! Pay up for loss and damage!’

Simone de Giuseppe, a pastor with the Evangelical Baptist Union of Italy, recalled how his time at the Bossey Ecumenical Institute became a formative experience in his life.

Hosting a World Council of Churches (WCC) assembly is an enormous undertaking for the churches in the city and country in which it takes place. For the 11^th Assembly in Karlsruhe, the local and national churches and partners went even further.

GETI 2022, the third global iteration of a Global Ecumenical Theological Institute, brought together some 100 young theologians from across the globe for six weeks of intense ecumenical sharing and learning – first online for four weeks and then for two weeks in person onsite – as the World Council of Churches (WCC) recently gathered for its 11^th assembly in Karlsruhe, Germany.

Residents of near and far gathered in a small village of Bărbătești in Romania to celebrate the consecration of a new Orthodox church, a significant sign of hope in the region recently confronted with economic emigration.

Following a mid-March visit to Ukraine and the bordering countries of Hungary and Romania, a World Council of Churches (WCC) and ACT Alliance delegation visited the Russian-Ukrainian border area around Rostov-on-Don on 22-26 May.