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Ambassador Ibrahim Khraishi, Mission of Palestine to Switzerland; and Doa Nofal, second secretary at the Permanent Observer Mission of the State of Palestine to the United Nations and other International Organizations in Geneva, visited the World Council of Churches (WCC) on 1 February.

A Human Rights Monitor report has found that more than 60,000 internally displaced persons in West Papua remain without government aid.

As people in Cameroon work and pray for peace, both solutions and challenges are on the path in front of them.

The Dicastery for Promoting Interreligious Dialogue is hosting a conference in Rome on the importance of women building a culture of interreligious encounter.

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.”

In a statement released 27 December, the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Jerusalem condemned the storming of its land by an Israeli radical group in Wadi Hilweh in Silwan, south of the Old City of Jerusalem.

 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. 

اجتمع رؤساء الكنائس في القدس، وقادة وشركاء وأصدقاء مجلس الكنائس العالمي في القدس للاحتفال بالذكرى السنوية الـ 20 لتأسيس برنامج المرافقة المسكونية في فلسطين وإسرائيل