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The World Council of Churches (WCC) general secretary Rev. Prof. Dr Jerry Pillay on postponing a planned roundtable dialogue meeting on Ukraine.

"The Word of God: Compass for Our Time", reflection by the World Council of Churches moderator Bishop Dr Heinrich Bedford-Strohm during at the International Meeting for Peace held on 10-12 September in Berlin, Germany.

A World Free From Nuclear Weapons is Possible: remarks by Peter Prove, Director of the WCC's Commission of the Churches on International Affairs at the International Meeting for Peace: Religions and Cultures in Dialogue "The Audacity of Peace", Berlin, 10-12 September 2023.

After thousands of Orthodox Christians were denied access to Mount Tabor, in the Lower Galilee—site of the transfiguration of Jesus—World Council of Churches general secretary Rev. Prof. Dr Jerry Pillay expressed concern about the infringement on religious freedom in the Holy Land.

Children deliver rallying cry to Summit for a New Global Financing Pact: “replace the existing colonial economic model”.

Address of Peter Prove, WCC director of international affairs on “Imagining a Safer World” at a “Churches Together South Australia” event on 13 August 2023.

Keynote address of Rev. Dr Kenneth Mtata, WCC programme director for Public Witness and Diakonia at the "International Conference for Reconciliation in Colombia", Bogota, Colombia, 9 August 2023

H2 is the name given to the eastern part of Hebron City, the only Palestinian city center which remains under full Israeli military control in the West Bank.

Masafer Yatta is in the South Hebron Hills, and it spreads over 3,000 hectares within Area C of the West Bank, and includes 12 Palestinian villages.

The World Council of Churches (WCC) is calling on Azerbaijan for the immediate lifting of the blockade of Nagorno-Karabakh, as more than 120,000 people—including 30,000 children—are suffering under an increasingly dire humanitarian crisis.

On 27 July 1953 – 70 years ago today – the Korean War Armistice Agreement was signed in Panmunjom by senior representatives of the United Nations Command, and military leaders of North Korea (the Korean People's Army) and China (the Chinese People's Volunteer Army).

Approximately 56,908 Palestinians reside in the Jordan Valley, while approximately 11,000 Israelis settlers are living in the area.  Today, Palestinian Indigenous residents of the Jordan Valley are the subject of violence and exploitation by settlers and Israeli security forces with the intention to take over more land.

Demolition of Palestinian homes and structures occurs frequently in the the Jordan Valley and around Jericho.