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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. 

World Council of Churches (WCC) general secretary Rev. Prof. Dr Jerry Pillay will visit Cuba from 17-19 December to reiterate WCC support for the churches and people in Cuba.

During an ecumenical morning prayer held 15 May, the World Council of Churches (WCC) staff and partners observed the UN International Day of Living Together in Peace, holding in prayer many nations across the world facing challenges to living together in harmony.

World Council of Churches (WCC) acting general secretary Rev. Prof Dr Ioan Sauca, in a letter to Cuban president Miguel Díaz-Canel, expressed support and admiration for a resolution passed in the United Nations General Assembly that ends the blockade which harms the Cuban people.

In einem Schreiben an US-Präsident Joe Biden vom 15. Oktober haben Führungspersonen des Ökumenischen Rates der Kirchen, des ACT-Bündnisses, des Kubanischen Kirchenrats und anderer religiöser Gruppen ein Ende des seit knapp 60 Jahren bestehenden Embargos gegen das kubanische Volk gefordert, dessen humanitäre Lage katastrophal ist.

In a 15 October letter to US president Joe Biden, leaders from the World Council of Churches, ACT Alliance, Council of Churches in Cuba, and other faith-based groups urged an end to nearly 60 years of embargo against the Cuban people, who are facing an appalling humanitarian situation.

Der Ökumenische Rat der Kirchen (ÖRK) hat sich mit den Menschen in Haiti solidarisch erklärt und betet für die Bevölkerung und die Kirchen in Haiti, nachdem die Insel am 14. August von einem Erdbeben der Stärke 7.2 getroffen wurde. 

Die haitianische Regierung hat den Notstand ausgerufen. Mehr als 1.300 Menschen verloren ihr Leben, Tausende wurden verletzt.

As reports of casualties and loss grow in Haiti in the wake of a 7.2-magnitude earthquake on 14 August, a tropical depression was threatening the same area two days later.

The World Council of Churches (WCC) reached out in solidarity and prayer to people and churches in Haiti in the wake of a 7.2-magnitude earthquake that struck Haiti, on 14 August. 

The Haitian government declared a state of emergency, with 1,300 dead and several thousands injured.

Im Regenwald des Amazonas, einem heilige Ort für 34 Millionen Menschen, stöhnt Gottes Schöpfung, denn das Amazonasgebiet leidet unter wachsender Ungleichheit, zunehmender Aneignung von Land, vermehrter Okkupationswirtschaft und einer Lockerung der Umweltschutzgesetze, während seine Beschützer zunehmend kriminalisiert und ermordet und, angestiftet von der Agrarindustrie, immer mehr Brände gelegt werden - und das alles wird durch Missionierung noch verschlimmert.

God’s creation groans in the Amazon forest, a sacred space for 34 million people suffering from the growth of inequality, land invasion, extractivism, relaxation of environmental laws, criminalization and murder of its defenders, and arson orchestrated by agribusiness—all of it made worse by proselytizing.

A Criação de Deus padece na Floresta Amazônica, um espaço sagrado para 34 milhões de pessoas que sofrem com o crescimento da desigualdade, invasões de terras, extrativismo, relaxamento de leis ambientais, criminalização e assassinato de seus defensores/as e incêndios criminosos orquestrados pelo agronegócio. E tudo isso vem sido exacerbado pelo proselitismo.

Dr Jurjen Zeilstra is a historian and theologian. His biography “Visser 't Hooft, 1900-1985 Living for the Unity of the Church” served as a dissertation in the humanities at the Amsterdam Free University in order to receive the degree of Ph.D. in 2018. Willem Visser 't Hooft led the World Council of Churches (WCC) during its formative stages. Below, Dr Zeilstra reflects on what it was like to study the life of Visser 't Hooft.

In a letter to its European sister organizations, the Council of Churches in the Netherlands reiterated its call to the Dutch government to honour the call from the European Committee regarding the relocation of vulnerable and unaccompanied children from Greek refugee camps. The letter also urges European sister organizations to appeal to their governments to exercise the same human compassion.

In a letter sent to Caribbean churches, World Council of Churches (WCC) general secretary Rev. Dr Olav Fykse Tveit expressed gratitude that the disaster did not cause severe damage or fatalities.

Nachdem Bischof Theophilus Rolle, der auf den Bahamas lebt, dem Ökumenischen Rat der Kirchen (ÖRK) eine erste Einschätzung der Lage nach Hurrikan Dorian übermittelt hatte, hat der ÖRK zu Gebeten und Solidarität der weltweiten Gemeinschaft mit den Menschen aufgerufen, die von dem Sturm hart getroffen wurden.

As Bishop Theophilus Rolle, living in the Bahamas, shared initial assessments with the World Council of Churches (WCC) in the wake of Hurricane Dorian, the WCC in turn called for prayers and solidarity across the world for the people suffering greatly during the storm.