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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.

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.

The World Council of Churches, working with the Jamaica Council of Churches and Caribbean and North America Council for Mission, offered a training in Jamaica to help people cope with violence against children, particularly sexual violence, gang-related violence, and gun violence.

Dort die Menschenwürde wiederherstellen, wo die Menschen am meisten leiden, sei der kompromisslose Aufruf für die Kirchen im Nahen Osten und ihre Partner auf der ganzen Welt, lautete die Botschaft der jährlichen Tagung von Partnern des Rates der Kirchen im Nahen Osten, die diese Woche in Ain el Qassis, Libanon, stattfand.

Restoring human dignity where people suffer most is the ultimate calling for churches in the Middle East and their partners worldwide, stated an annual partners meeting of the Middle East Council of Churches held in Ain el Qassis, Lebanon this week.

Respect for the other lies at the heart of peace education and was a key thread through a debate entitled “Education for Peace in a multi-religious world”. It was held on the 2018 World Human Rights Day at the United Nations Office in Geneva.

World Council of Churches (WCC) general secretary Rev. Dr Olav Fykse Tveit will visit Jamaica, Barbados, Trinidad and Antigua from 29 September-9 October. Tveit will be preaching, meeting with religious leaders and visiting communities.

Bishop Emeritus Munib Younan from the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Jordan and the Holy Land accepted a “Building Bridges of Understanding” award on 12 September at Georgetown University in Washington, DC. The award is organized by the Alwaleed Bin Talal Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding.

Auf einer internationalen Konsultation vom 1. bis 6. Oktober in Kingston, Jamaika, wird die Dekade der Kirchen in Solidarität mit den Frauen (1988-1998) des Ökumenischen Rates der Kirchen (ÖRK) vor 20 Jahren in Erinnerung gerufen werden.

An international consultation will commemorate the 20th anniversary of the Decade of the Churches in Solidarity with Women (1988-98), 1-6 October in Kingston, Jamaica.

Der Exekutivausschuss des Ökumenischen Rates der Kirchen ist besorgt darüber, wie kirchliche Einrichtungen und Besitztümer in Jerusalem durch rechtlich umstrittene Verträge, Aktionen radikaler Siedlergruppen und die Politik der israelischen Regierung bedrängt werden.

The WCC Executive Committee has issued a statement expressing concern over the ways in which church institutions and properties in Jerusalem are threatened as a result of contracts of disputed legality, the efforts of radical settler groups, and policies of the government of Israel.

Obwohl er begrüßenswerte neue Schritte zur weltweiten Ächtung von Atomwaffen sieht, fürchtet der Exekutivausschuss des Ökumenischen Rates der Kirchen zugleich die Eskalation des Konflikts auf der koreanischen Halbinsel zu einem Atomkrieg.

While celebrating new steps taken towards global elimination of nuclear weapons, the WCC Executive Committee also fears the cycle of confrontation on the Korean peninsula might slide into nuclear warfare.

Auf seiner Tagung in Amman gab der Exekutivausschuss des Ökumenischen Rates der Kirchen eine „Erklärung zum Atomwaffenverbotsvertrag und zur Verleihung des Friedensnobelpreises 2017 an die Internationale Kampagne zur Abschaffung von Atomwaffen“ ab.

The WCC Executive Committee, during its meeting in Amman, issued a “Statement on Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, and on 2017 Nobel Peace Prize awarded to the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons.”

„Der Amazonas, die grüne Lunge der Erde, ist in Trauer, und das von ihm erhaltene Leben verdorrt“ – so beginnt eine vom Exekutivausschuss des Ökumenischen Rates der Kirchen auf seiner Tagung in Amman abgegebene Erklärung.

“The Amazon, the green heart of the Earth, is mourning and the life it sustains is withering,” begins a statement released by the World Council of Churches Executive Committee as it met in Amman, Jordan from 17-23 November.

Anlässlich des Rücktritts von Robert Mugabe nach 37 Jahren im Amt hat der ÖRK-Exekutivausschuss eine Erklärung zur Situation in Simbabwe abgegeben.

At its meeting in Amman, Jordan, the WCC Executive Committee issued a “Minute on the situation in Zimbabwe” as developments in Zimbabwe have led to the resignation of President Robert Mugabe after 37 years in power.