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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.

In den Eröffnungsreden auf der Tagung des Exekutivausschusses des Ökumenischen Rates vom 17.-23. November ging es in erster Linie um Frieden, Gerechtigkeit und Einheit, als der ÖRK sein weiteres Vorgehen erörtert und die bisher geleistete Arbeit bewertet.

Speakers opening the World Council of Churches (WCC) executive committee meeting in Amman, Jordan from 17-23 November, emphasized peace, justice and unity as the WCC discerns its way forward and evaluates its past work.

Der Exekutivausschuss des ökumenischen Rates der Kirchen (ÖRK) trifft sich vom 17. bis 23. November in Amman, Jordanien, um die Programmpläne und den Haushalt für 2018 zu genehmigen, Leitlinien für die Erneuerung des ÖRK-Strategieplans für den Zeitraum aufzustellen und das weitere Vorgehen des ÖRK in Palästina und Israel auf der Suche nach Gerechtigkeit und Frieden zu beraten, indem mehr über die besondere Situation in Jordanien und im Nahen Osten in Erfahrung gebracht wird und im Anschluss daran die Herausforderungen für die Kirchen und die Antwort des ÖRK erörtert werden. Theophilus III, der Patriarch der Heiligen Stadt Jerusalem und ganz Palästinas und der Gebiete jenseits des Jordans, wird die Gruppe willkommen heißen.

The World Council of Churches (WCC) executive committee will meet in Amman, Jordan from 17-23 November to approve the 2018 plans and budget, prepare for renewal of the WCC strategic plan, to discern the way forward for the WCC’s involvement in Palestine and Israel for justice and peace by learning more about the particular situation in Jordan and the Middle East, then discussing the challenges of the churches and the WCC response. The Patriarch of the Holy City of Jerusalem, All Palestine and Jordan, Theophilos III, will welcome the group.

Reconciliation was once primarily seen as a message of the church but is now used by secular leaders trying to establish peace in communities torn by conflict and war, the WCC president for Africa, the Rev. Mary Anne Plaatjies van Huffel, has said at a major Protestant gathering in Germany.

The 54th meeting of the WCC Commission of the Churches on International Affairs (CCIA) began today in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, marking its yearly regional focus on Africa. During the meeting CCIA members are discussing the commission’s previous work and its outcomes focusing on Middle East, as well as setting strategic directions for activities until 2021.

The story shared by Fr Yakoub Babawe of the Oum-El-Nour Relief Committee of the Syrian Orthodox Church in Iraq’s city of Erbil moved and challenged participants at a recent meeting in Beirut.

The latest edition of the quarterly WCC journal features a discussion of the roots of religion and violence in the Middle East. Five presentations drawn from three WCC-sponsored conferences of recent years explore aspects of the religious concepts of “promised land,” the “theology of land” and how to go about “reading the Hebrew Bible in solidarity with the Palestinian people.”

During the 29 years Virgine Nasrawi has worked in the Talbiah refugee camp, located 40 kilometers south of Amman, the Jordanian capital, she has witnessed many changes. And the sudden influx of refugees from neighbouring Syria, caused by the devastating civil war in that country, is the most dramatic.

Den Kirchen in Europa käme im Umgang mit den ankommenden Flüchtlingen in Europa eine wesentliche Rolle zu, erklärte der deutsche Bundesminister des Innern auf einer Tagung von Regierungsvertreterinnen und -vertretern, UN-Organisationen, Kirchen, glaubensgestützten Gruppen und zivilgesellschaftlichen Organisationen in Genf.

Churches in Europe have a crucial role to play in responding to the arrival of refugees in Europe, Germany's interior minister has told a gathering in Geneva of governments, United Nations agencies, church and faith groups and civil society organizations.

Kurt Koch, Kardinal der römisch-katholischen Kirche und Präsident des Päpstlichen Rates zur Förderung der Einheit der Christen, gewährte dem ÖRK ein Interview im Rahmen des Global Christian Forum. Dort hatten sich hochrangige Kirchenverantwortliche verschiedener Kirchentraditionen aus über 60 Ländern versammelten, um Solidarität mit Kirchen und christlichen Menschen zu bekunden, die heute in der Welt verfolgt und diskriminiert werden.

Cardinal Kurt Koch of the Roman Catholic Church, president of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity, has granted an interview to WCC News. The conversation took place at the Global Christian Forum in Tirana, Albania where 150 high level leaders and representatives of various church traditions from more than 60 countries gathered to listen and learn from one another and to stand in solidarity with churches and Christians experiencing discrimination and persecution in the world today.

Today 35 bishops and church leaders from 20 countries gathered in Munich, Germany to discuss the refugee situation and the role of the churches in Europe.

Reduction in and prevention of statelessness, and the protection of stateless people in the Middle East provided the focus of a workshop organized by the WCC and the Middle East Council of Churches in Beirut, Lebanon.