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Registrations are open for a World Council of Churches webinar on 19 January that will launch the first volume of a major new history of ecumenism produced by a team of academics and scholars coordinated by the Italian-based Foundation for Religious Studies (FSCIRE).

Looking toward the 2022 assembly of the World Council of Churches (WCC) that will gather around the theme “Christ’s love moves the world to reconciliation and unity,” the latest issue of the WCC journal International Review of Mission focuses on the relationship between mission and unity.

A collection of documents and publications from the World Council of Churches (WCC) is now available through its longstanding partner organization Globethics.net. The WCC collection, updated weekly, reflects a growing and longstanding electronic bridge between the organizations’ websites.

The latest issue of Current Dialogue, the World Council of Churches (WCC) journal on interreligious relations, focuses on “Christ’s love,” an important aspect of the theme of the WCC’s 2022 assembly, “Christ’s love moves the world to reconciliation and unity,” from an interreligious perspective. 

The latest issue of The Ecumenical Review, the quarterly journal of the World Council of Churches (WCC), focuses on the Pan-African Women’s Ecumenical Empowerment Network (PAWEEN), a project of the WCC’s programme on Ecumenical Theological Education (ETE).

Formally established as a network in 2015, PAWEEN aims to celebrate, commemorate, and build upon the legacy of Pan‐African women in the ecumenical movement.

Der Ökumenische Rat der Kirchen (ÖRK) hat am 5. Juli ein historisches Dialogtreffen zwischen Anhängerinnen und Anhängern der Sikhreligion und des Christentums ausgerichtet. Das Treffen stand unter dem Thema „Pursuing Peace in a Pluralistic World“ (Streben nach Frieden in einer pluralistischen Welt) und fand anlässlich des 550. Geburtstags von Guru Nanak, dem ersten Guru der Sikh, statt.

The World Council of Churches (WCC) hosted a Sikh-Christian dialogue on 5 July with the theme “Pursuing Peace in a Pluralistic World” to commemorate the 550th birth Anniversary of Guru Nanak, the first guru of the Sikhs.

Anlässlich des Besuchs von Papst Franziskus beim Ökumenischen Rat der Kirchen (ÖRK) am 21. Juni 2018 wurde eine besondere virtuelle „Online-Ausgabe“ der einmal im Quartal erscheinenden Zeitschrift The Ecumenical Review mit einer Reihe von Artikeln über die Beziehungen zwischen dem ÖRK und der römisch-katholischen Kirche veröffentlicht.

To mark the visit of Pope Francis to the WCC on 21 June, a special online “Virtual Issue” of the WCC’s quarterly journal, The Ecumenical Review, is offering a set of articles about relationships between the WCC and the Roman Catholic Church.

Den Exekutivausschuss des Ökumenischen Rates der Kirchen (ÖRK) tagt diese Woche vom 7. bis 12. Juni im Ökumenischen Institut in Bossey. Der Fokus dieser Tagung liegt auf den Themen Einheit, Erneuerung des ÖRK-Strategieplans und der Finanzstrategie, Bauprojekt, Vorbereitungen für die 11. Vollversammlung und die Feier des 70-jährigen Bestehens des ÖRK.

The WCC Executive Committee is meeting at the Ecumenical Institute in Bossey this week from 7-12 June, focusing on unity, renewal of the WCC strategic plan and financial strategy, the building project, preparations for the 11th Assembly and observance of WCC’s 70th anniversary.

"Ecumenical work is not nostalgia nor superficial use of metaphors. It is the hard work we do in mutual accountability to one another,” says WCC general secretary Rev. Dr Olav Fykse Tveit in his introduction to the WCC Annual Review 2016, which is now available in print and digital form online.