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Participants of the Emerging Peacemakers Forum being held at the World Council of Churches (WCC) Ecumenical Institute at Bossey, Switzerland from 5-14 July, visited Palais des Nations and learned about the United Nations work in Geneva.

لم يكن المسيحيون واليهود والمسلمون، الذين كانوا يضحكون ويتحدثون إلى بعضهم البعض ويتعلمون عن السلام، شخوص في قصة ملهمة؛ إنهم شباب حقيقيون مفعمون بالحياة يمرحون في "منتدى صناع السلام الناشئين".

The Christians, Jews, and Muslims laughing and chatting together, learning about peace were not in an aspirational story; they are authentic, live young people having fun at the Emerging Peacemakers Forum.

يستضيف مجلس الكنائس العالمي ومجلس حكماء المسلمين ومؤسسة "روز كاسل"(Rose Castle) منتدى شباب صناع السلام خلال الفترة من 5 - 14 تموز/يوليو في المعهد المسكوني التابع لمجلس الكنائس العالمي في بوسي، فرنسا، بمشاركة 50 شاباً وشابة يعملون في المجتمع المدني والمنظمات الدولية أو للأشخاص المؤثرين في مجتمعاتهم.

Resources—including reflections, prayers, and more—are now available to help churches and all people of good will to observe the World Week for Peace in Palestine and Israel from 16-23 September 2023.

The World Council of Churches (WCC), the Muslim Council of Elders, and Rose Castle Foundation will host an Emerging Peacemakers Forum on 5-14 July for 50 young men and women working in civil society and international organizations, or for influential people in their societies, at the Ecumenical Institute at Bossey.

The World Council of Churches was among ecumenical organizations based in Africa and international partners that signed a 24 June joint statement on Sudan.

The 70-year-old War Armistice Agreement should be replaced with a peace treaty, urged the World Council of Churches (WCC) central committee in a public statement. “In a time of renewed escalation of tensions and confrontation on the Korean Peninsula, we recall that this year marks the 70th anniversary of the 1953 Armistice Agreement which established a ceasefire, but not a formal end, to the Korean War,” reads the text. “We pray for peace and dialogue to end this dangerous cycle, and for denuclearization not only of the Korean Peninsula but of the entire world.”

Під час візиту в Україну делегації керівництва Всесвітньої ради церков (ВРЦ) в Бучі, що на околиці Києва, 12 травня відбувся спільний молебен. Богослужіння, яке провели керівники ВРЦ, генеральний секретар ВРЦ преподобний проф. д-р Джеррі Піллей, голова центрального комітету ВРЦ єпископ Генріх Бедфорд-Штром та архієпископ Вікен Айказян за участю членів Всеукраїнської Ради Церков і релігійних організацій (ВРЦіРО), відбулося в храмі святого апостола Андрія Первозванного в Бучі. 

During the World Council of Churches (WCC) leadership delegation visit to Ukraine in May, an ecumenical prayer service was held in Bucha, on the outskirts of Kyiv, on 12 May. The service, led by the WCC leadership, WCC general secretary Rev. Prof. Dr Jerry Pillay, WCC moderator Bishop Heinrich Bedford-Strohm and Archbishop Vicken Aykazian, with participation of members of the Ukrainian Council of Churches and Religious Organizations (UCCRO), took place at St Andrew Orthodox Church in Bucha.

The World Council of Churches (WCC) executive committee, in a public statement, urged a permanent cessation of hostilities in Sudan, where people are facing a humanitarian catastrophe following weeks of intense fighting between the Sudanese Army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces.

World Council of Churches central committee moderator Bishop Dr Heinrich Bedford-Strohm delivered a lecture at the Kitzingen deanery, a regional church district near Würzburg, for the parishes of the deanery as well as for the public. The lecture, entitled “Just Peace through Military Force? Peace Ethical Considerations in Light of the War of Aggression against Ukraine,” was offered on 29 April