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World Council of Churches general secretary Rev. Prof. Dr Jerry Pillay, on behalf of the global fellowship, expressed grave concern regarding the recent escalation of violence in the Middle East following the first direct confrontation between Iran and Israel.

"Peace Among the People – Interreligious Action for Peace and Inclusive Communities", keynote address by Peter Prove, director of the Commission of the Churches on International Affairs, World Council of Churches, at the Peace Conference in Jakarta, Indonesia, 21 November 2023.

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

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.

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).

World Council of Churches (WCC) general secretary Rev. Prof. Dr Jerry Pillay sent warm greetings to the commemoration of the 10th anniversary of the Peace Train project, which works for peace on the Korean Peninsula.

This week marks the 75th commemoration of what Palestinians refer to as the nakba, or “catastrophe,” when hundreds of thousands of people were uprooted during Israel's creation in 1948.

World Council of Churches (WCC) general secretary Rev. Prof. Dr Jerry Pillay expressed deep concern about the ongoing ethnic and communal violence which flared up last week in India’s north-eastern State of Manipur.

Pastoral letter to the churches and people of South Sudan and to Norwegian Church Aid by Rev. Prof. Dr Jerry Pillay, general secretary of the World Council of Churches.

World Council of Churches (WCC) general secretary Rev. Prof. Dr Jerry Pillay expressed grave concern about the ongoing humanitarian catastrophe in Sudan, and urged an end to hostilities.

The World Council of Churches (WCC) is deeply saddened by the sudden escalation of conflict between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) led by General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, head of Sudan's transitional governing Sovereign Council, and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) led by General Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo.

Address by Marianne Ejdersten, communication director of the WCC at the side-event of the 52^nd session of the UN Human Rights Council, launching the report on the impact of sanctions on humanitarian work.

World Council of Churches general secretary Rev. Prof. Dr Jerry Pillay denounced a bomb attack that killed 17 members of the parish of the 8th Community of Pentecostal Churches of Congo on 15 January.

World Council of Churches general secretary Rev. Prof. Dr Jerry Pillay denounced continuing attacks on civilians and civilian infrastructure in Russia’s ongoing illegal war against the people of Ukraine.

Keynote speech of the World Council of Churches acting general secretary Rev. Prof. Dr Ioan Sauca at the Ecumenical peace conversation, Seoul, Korea, 11 October 2022.

Joint letter of Rev. Prof. Dr Ioan Sauca, acting general secretary of the World Council of Churches and Dr Jørgen Skov Sørensen, general secretary the Conference of European Churches to H.E. Zbigniew Rau, OSCE chairman-in-office, appealing for urgent action by the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe to promote a just and sustainable peace in the Caucasus.

Statement of the World Council of Churches (WCC) acting general secretary Rev. Prof. Dr Ioan Sauca regarding the recent attack on a church community during a Sunday morning mass at St Francis Catholic Church, Owo, Ondo State, Nigeria.

The WCC has supported the State of Israel since its inception in 1948. The council has consistently called for an end to violence, repudiation of all forms of anti-semitism, an end to the illegal settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territories, and a negotiated two-state solution to the conflict there.

On 5 April 2022, WCC leadership and staff met with representatives of WCC member churches from Syria, who came to the Ecumenical Institute in Bossey, Switzerland, for consultations on the WCC’s longstanding programmatic work relating to Syria.