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After the assassination of human rights lawyer Thulani Maseko, statements and messages of condolences began pouring forth from churches and governments across the world. Maseko was shot in his home in Eswatini on 21 January by unknown attackers.

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. Thirty-nine people were wounded.

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.

Amid rapidly rising tensions on the Korean Peninsula over the past few weeks, the National Council of Churches in Korea (NCCK) released a statement entitled “Hope for the Korean Peninsula from the heat of war to coexistence with the warm breeze of peace.”

 استقبل الرئيس الفلسطيني محمود عباس في 24 نوفمبر/تشرين الثاني استقبالا رسميا الأمين العام بالإنابة لمجلس الكنائس العالمي، القس البروفسور الدكتور إيوان سوكا لمناقشة السلام العادل في فلسطين وإسرائيل. 

In a letter to Colombian president Gustavo Petro Urrego, and to the high commissioner for peace Danilo Rueda Rodriguéz, the World Council of Churches, World Communion of Reformed Churches, and ACT Alliance congratulated the government of Colombia for the appointment of four women to the negotiation team for a peace agreement with the National Liberation Army.

ב-24 בנובמבר קיבל הנשיא הפלסטיני מחמוד עבאס את פניו של ממלא מקום המזכיר הכללי של מועצת הכנסיות העולמית (WCC), הכומר פרופ' ד"ר יואן סאוקה, לפגישה רשמית שנועדה לדון בשלום צודק בפלסטין ובישראל. 

בהנהגתו של ממלא מקום המזכיר הכללי של מועצת הכנסיות העולמית (WCC), הכומר פרופ' ד"ר יואן סאוקה, הוועדה המייעצת למשרד הקישור בירושלים של ה-WWC ערכה את הפגישה הראשונה שלה בירושלים, שבמהלכה התוותה את התוכניות לעתיד. 

عقدت لجنة الاتصال الاستشارية لمجلس الكنائس العالمي برئاسة الأمين العام بالإنابة لمجلس الكنائس العالمي القس البروفيسور الدكتور إيوان سوكا، اجتماعها الأول في مدينة القدس تم خلاله وضع الخطط المستقبلية للجنة. 

On 24 November, Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas formally received the acting general secretary of the World Council of Churches (WCC) Rev. Prof. Dr Ioan Sauca for a meeting to discuss just peace in Palestine and Israel. 

Under the leadership of World Council of Churches (WCC) acting general secretary Rev. Prof. Dr Ioan Sauca, the WCC Jerusalem Liaison Advisory Committee held its first meeting in Jerusalem, during which it mapped future plans. 

A joint message signed by World Council of Churches acting general secretary Rev. Prof. Dr Ioan Sauca and Christian Conference of Asia general secretary Dr Mathews George Chunakara expressed grave concern over recent attacks by the Myanmar military on a theological seminary and churches in Kachin and Kayah States.

World Council of Churches (WCC) acting general secretary Rev. Prof. Dr Ioan Sauca shared a message during a Global Tolerance Alliance Summit and Round Table held in Abu Dhabi on 16-17 November.

H.E. Mor Boutros Kassis, who has been serving the community for the last seven years as a temporary bishop, was installed as archbishop of the Syriac Orthodox Church in Aleppo on 15 October.

World Council of Churches (WCC) acting general secretary Rev. Prof. Dr Ioan Sauca visited Moscow this week, meeting with H.H. Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and all Russia, and representatives from the largest WCC member church.

The World Council of Churches (WCC) welcomed the news that the 2022 Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to jailed Belarusian advocate Ales Bialiatski, Russian human rights organization Memorial, and the Ukrainian Center for Civil Liberties.

As the keynote speaker during an Ecumenical Peace Conversation in South Korea on 11 October, World Council of Churches (WCC) acting general secretary Rev. Prof. Dr Ioan Sauca reflected on the theme of the recent WCC 11th Assembly, “Christ’s love moves the world to reconciliation and unity.”