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With an intervention delivered by Max Weber, a student at the Ecumenical Institute at Bossey, the World Council of Churches expressed deep concern for human rights in Haiti. 

Iranian rector Ayatollah M. Seyyed Abolhassan Nawab and Ms Zahra Sedigh, from the Iranian Mission to the UN, visited the World Council of Churches (WCC) on 27 July, discussing education and formation, as well as the importance of strengthening the role of interreligious cooperation.  

The annual interreligious summer course opened in the World Council of Churches (WCC) Ecumenical Institute at Bossey on 25 July, ushering seven students from six different countries into an exploration of the theme “Health and Wholeness of Life in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.”

The deadline to apply for the Bossey Ecumenical Institute’s 2022 Certificate in Advanced Studies – Interreligious Studies is 1 May.

The World Council of Churches (WCC) is accepting applications for staff leadership positions from people who want to continue and build on the momentum of the global fellowship in its ongoing work for unity, justice and peace.

Encouraging the WCC fellowship in its ongoing call to discipleship together, the WCC central committee commended to WCC member churches the document “Called to Transformation—Ecumenical Diakonia and Addendums.”

A team from the Church of Westphalia visited the World Council of Churches (WCC) Ecumenical Institute at Bossey from 27 September to 1 October, exploring a global view of ecumenism by learning about the WCC as a global ecumenical organisation.

التقى الأمين العام بالنيابة لمجلس الكنائس العالمي القس البروفيسور الدكتور يوان سوكا مع الدكتور محمد بن عبد الكريم العيسى، الأمين العام لرابطة العالم الإسلامي ومقرها مكة والسيد أمير جافد الشيخ، رئيس رابطة الحوار من أجل السلام ومقرها في النرويج، في المعهد المسكوني في بوسي يوم 31 أغسطس/ آب.

World Council of Churches acting general secretary Rev. Prof. Dr Ioan Sauca met with Dr Muhammad Bin Abulkarim Al-Issa, secretary general of the Mecca-based Muslim World League and Aamir Javed Sheikh, head of the Norway-based Foundation Dialogue for Peace, at the Bossey Ecumenical Institute on 31 August.

The WCC has welcomed four new programme executives.

استضيف، يوم الثلاثاء، الطلبة اليافعون القادمون من جميع أقطار العالم في المعهد المسكوني التابع لمجلس الكنائس العالمي ببوسي، سويسرا، وذلك لمنحهم شهادة الدراسات المتقدمة في مجال الدراسات بين الأديان.

ويتمثل شعار السنة الأكاديمية 2018/2019 في "المشاركة من أجل إنشاء مجتمعات تشاركية عادلة-في ظل الانتماء لليهودية وللمسيحية وللإسلام". حيث بدأ عنصر التعلم عن بعد من الدورة قبل ثلاثة أسابيع. وتجمع هذه الدورة بين الطلبة المنتمين إلى الديانات الإبراهيمية الثلاث، حتى تتيح لهم معرفة المزيد عن ديانات بعضنا البعض، وتعزيز فهمنا لمجتمع اليوم متعدد الثقافات.

Young students from all over the world were welcomed to the World Council of Churches (WCC) Ecumenical Institute in Bossey, Switzerland on Tuesday for the Certificate of Advanced Studies in Interreligious Studies.
The theme of the 2018/2019 academic year is “Engaging for just and participatory societies - belongingness in Judaism, Christianity and Islam”.

Conversations at the World Council of Churches (WCC) exhibition booth at the Kirchentag showed there is a growing interest in ecumenical movement among German churches. The topics of a particularly high interest were the Thursdays in Black campaign and studies at the Ecumenical institute in Bossey.

Almost 30 international students from the WCC's Bossey Ecumenical Institute, Switzerland, are embarking on a future of ecumenism, dialogue and unity that began with months of intense study and fellowship.

The World Council of Churches (WCC) has made several new appointments this year, welcoming programme executives, a programme director, and a new dean of the Bossey Ecumenical Institute.