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The World Council of Churches (WCC), in a submission to the International Criminal Court (ICC), welcomed a policy establishing accountability for environmental crimes.

As we witness the ongoing violence and injustice in the Holy Land and seek to stand in solidarity with its peoples struggling to find peace, the 2024 WCC-EAPPI Easter initiative lifts up the call to roll away the heavy stone of violence, war, and occupation, pain, and suffering, and to remind the world of what is needed to bring about peace, and to transform swords into ploughshares.

Overview of WCC statements, news, and features on Palestine and Israel in the period 1 January 2023 - 15 March 2024.

Reinforcing the traditional role of faith communities in offering sanctuary and, indeed hospitality to refugees, 90 faith-based leaders today committed to offering their continued and additional support to refugees, including children, on their journey to safety, including in reception and admission, meeting protection or service delivery needs and supporting communities to find solutions such as private sponsorship or scholarship programmes.

Church Unites in Prayer, Firmly Condemns Massacre at Hospital, and Grieves the Loss of Hundreds of
Innocent Civilians

Letter to European Union from the World Council of Churches (WCC) and Conference of European Churches expressing grave concern for the situation in the Caucasus related to Nagorno-Karabakh.

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.

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

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.

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. 

Material compilation for the World Week for Peace in Palestine and Israel, 16-23 September 2023.

In February 2023, members of the Stop Killer Robots coalition met in Costa Rica to consider the impact of digital dehumanisation - a process in which humans are reduced to data points, on which decisions are made which can negatively impact us.  The potential of such automated harm includes injury or death from the use of autonomous weapon systems.