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From the sound of a new song written specifically for the upcoming International Ecumenical Peace Convocation (IEPC), to a proclamation that Jamaica is the proper place for this peace event, the IEPC was officially launched at a ceremony in Kingston, Jamaica on 15 March organized by the Jamaican Council of Churches and the Caribbean Conference of Churches, hosts of the IEPC.

Desde los ecos de una nueva canción escrita expresamente para la próxima Convocatoria Ecuménica Internacional por la Paz (CEIP), hasta la proclamación de que Jamaica es el lugar adecuado para este evento de paz, acompañaron al lanzamiento oficial de la CEIP en Kingston, Jamaica, el 15 de marzo, en una ceremonia organizada por el Consejo de Iglesias de Jamaica y la Conferencia de Iglesias del Caribe, anfitriones de la CEIP.

“Without any doubt, ecclesiology remains in our times the crucial issue for Christian theology in ecumenical perspective.” This was one of the conclusions drawn by a week-long consultation in Cyprus at which forty Eastern Orthodox and Oriental Orthodox representatives provided a common response to The Nature and Mission of the Church, a 2005 ecumenical text published by the WCC Commission on Faith and Order.

Five essays have been selected as the top entries in the Echos International Ecumenical Peace Convocation (IEPC) essay contest. It is tied to the IEPC, sponsored by the World Council of Churches (WCC), an event which is to be held in Kingston, Jamaica from 17 to 25 May 2011.

Cinco ensayos han sido seleccionados como los ganadores del concurso organizado por ECHOS en el marco de la Convocatoria Ecuménica Internacional por la Paz (CEIP), un acontecimiento auspiciado por el Consejo Mundial de Iglesias (CMI), que tendrá lugar en Kingston, Jamaica del 17 al 25 de mayo de 2011.

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In the aftermath of what is being called a “monster” earthquake and tsunami that hit Japan yesterday, Rev. Dr Olav Fykse Tveit, general secretary of the World Council of Churches (WCC) has called upon churches around the world to pray for Japan and the Japanese people.

"€œWe are keen to learn about the life and challenges of Christians in Korea,” said Rev. Dr Olav Fykse Tveit, general secretary of the World Council of Churches (WCC), at a press conference in Seoul on Wednesday 9 March. He spoke as leader of a WCC delegation to visit members of the Korean churches and government while laying practical foundations for the 10th Assembly of the WCC at Busan, South Korea in October 2013. The theme of the assembly will be “God of life, lead us to justice and peace."€

Father Daniel Groody, a professor from Notre Dame University in the United States and a Roman Catholic priest, presented a theological approach to the topic of migration at a Tuesday 8 March gathering in the library of the World Council of Churches (WCC) in Geneva.

Dr Katharina Kunter came upon the World Council of Churches (WCC) as an object of research through the discipline of Cold War studies, analyzing the encounter of Christian bodies in East and West from the end of the second world war to the fall of the Berlin Wall. She soon came to realize that the interplay of “northern” churches with the global South was equally influential in transforming attitudes and practices of the WCC and its member churches during those decades.

A week-long inter-Orthodox consultation with the aim of studying the Faith and Order document “The Nature and Mission of the Church” began its work on Thursday 3 March in Ayia Napa, Cyprus. The aim of the consultation is to offer distinctly Orthodox insights as part of a world-wide discussion of the doctrine of the Church, or “ecclesiology”. The gathering is hosted by the Orthodox Church of Cyprus.

The general secretary of the World Council of Churches (WCC), Rev. Dr Olav Fykse Tveit met with Archbishop Chrysostomos II of the Church of Cyprus and the president of Cyprus, Dr Demetris Christofias, in separate meetings Thursday in Nicosia.

“Agua y Paz Justa” será el tema de las reflexiones cuaresmales para este año que ofrece la Red Ecuménica del Agua (REDA). A partir del lunes 7 de marzo las reflexiones semanales examinarán la conexión entre el acceso al agua, las luchas por este valioso recurso y la construcción de una paz justa.