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

In the field of multilateral relations, the major partner of the Catholic Church is the World Council of Churches (WCC). Founded in 1948, it is the broadest and most inclusive ecumenical organization, bringing together 350 Christian denominations including Orthodox, Lutherans, Reformed, Anglicans, Methodists, Baptists as well as United and Independent churches. Altogether they represent over 500 million Christians worldwide.

In a lecture at the Institute for Ecumenical Studies at St Thomas Aquinas Pontifical University (Angelicum) on 13 December, World Council of Churches general secretary Rev. Dr Olav Fykse Tveit offered a lecture entitled "Ut Unum Sint: Between Winter and Spring, Reality and Prophecy, 1995 – 2020.”

The Joint Working Group between the Roman Catholic Church and the World Council of Churches (WCC) met in Lyon, France for its annual plenary session from 2-5 September. The group released a communique focusing on migration and peace building, outlining areas for theological reflection and cooperation.

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.

At a time of increased divisions within churches and within rapidly changing societies, Christians are called, more urgently than ever before, to model the values of reconciliation, justice and peace. That’s why a group of theologians and church leaders from different denominations have been meeting near the German city of Augsburg to work together on two documents calling for much closer collaboration in the tasks of peace-building and the care of migrants and refugees.

In the German city of Augsburg, which embodies memories of both division and reconciliation, WCC and Catholic leaders have been discussing increased practical cooperation in peace-building and the protection of migrants and refugees.

Zehn Wochen nachdem Papst Franziskus den ÖRK in Genf als „Pilger auf der Suche nach Einheit und Frieden“ besucht hat, sind führende Persönlichkeiten verschiedener Kirchen als Vertreterinnen und Vertreter des ÖRK und der Römisch-katholischen Kirche in dieser Woche zu einer Tagung in Deutschland zusammengekommen, um sich weiter mit der Aufgabe zu beschäftigen, die in dem Thema des Papstbesuchs zusammengefasst ist: „Gemeinsam unterwegs sein, beten und arbeiten“.

Ten weeks after Pope Francis visited the WCC in Geneva as “a pilgrim in quest of unity and peace,” church leaders of different churches representing the WCC and the Roman Catholic Church are meeting in Germany this week to continue their task of “walking, praying and working together.”

Korea’s Christian leaders have urged Catholics to work together with the WCC to help bring peace and reconciliation to their country. Rev. Dr Sang Chang, president of WCC’s Asia region, and Rev. Dr Lee Hong-jeong, general secretary of the National Council of Churches in Korea (NCCK) were speaking as Pope Francis visited the headquarters of the ecumenical movement in Geneva to mark the WCC’s 70th anniversary.

Vom 24. bis 27. Mai traf sich die Leitung der Gemeinsamen Arbeitsgruppe der römisch-katholischen Kirche und des Ökumenischen Rates der Kirchen in Targoviste, Rumänien, um die Zusammenarbeit bei der Friedensförderung sowie die ökumenischen Herausforderungen und Gelegenheiten zu erörtern, die Migrantinnen, Migranten und Flüchtlinge darstellen.
Metropolit Nifon von Targoviste war Gastgeber der Gruppe in seiner Erzdiözese. Gemeinsam mit dem Erzbischof von Dublin und Primas von Irland, Diarmuid Martin, sitzt er der Gemeinsamen Arbeitsgruppe vor.

The leaders of the Joint Working Group (JWG) between the Roman Catholic Church and the World Council of Churches met 24-27 May in Targoviste, Romania, to discuss cooperation in peace building and the ecumenical challenge and opportunity posed by migrants and refugees.

Der spektakuläre Besuch von Papst Franziskus beim Ökumenischen Rat der Kirchen am 21. Juni ist ein wichtiges Ereignis im Rahmen der ökumenischen Feiern zur Gründung des ÖRK vor 70 Jahren.

The landmark visit of Pope Francis to the World Council of Churches on 21 June will be a centrepiece of the ecumenical commemoration of the WCC's 70th anniversary.

An ecumenical service described as “A Service to Mark the 500th anniversary of the 95 Theses and the Start of the Reformation” was held in Westminster Abbey, London, on 31 October.

Kirchliche und politische Führungspersonen haben den 500. Jahrestag der Reformation Martin Luthers in Wittenberg begangen, wo dieser am 31. Oktober 1517 seine 95 Thesen anschlug und Missbräuche der Kirche anprangerte.

Church and political leaders have marked the 500th anniversary of Martin Luther’s Reformation in Wittenberg, Germany where on 31 October 1517 he published his 95 Theses denouncing church abuses.

Die Gemeinsame Arbeitsgruppe des Ökumenischen Rates der Kirchen (ÖRK) und der römisch-katholischen Kirche tagte vom 12. bis 15. September in Lissabon, Portugal, und beschäftigte sich mit den Themen Friedensförderung und Anliegen von Migranten.