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As a photo exhibition from the Marshall Islands opened at the World Council of Churches (WCC) on 8 March, speakers offered a stark overview of the damage done by nuclear testing—as well as the resilience and determination of the Marshallese people to pursue justice. 

Kirchen auf den pazifischen Inseln und aus der ganzen Welt beten für Unterstützung und Zuwendung, während sich Tonga mit den Auswirkungen des Ausbruchs des Vulkans Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai beschäftigt, der am 14. Januar Tsunamiwellen in einer Höhe von 15 Metern verursachte, die den Archipel trafen.

Churches from the Pacific Islands and across the world continued to voice their prayers of support and care as Tonga copes with the aftermath of the eruption of the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai volcano on 14 January, which triggered 15-metre tsunami waves that hit the archipelago.

World Council of Churches acting general secretary Rev. Prof. Dr Ioan Sauca extended prayers and condolences to people in Tonga, and the churches and rescue workers helping them, in the wake of a massive volcanic eruption smothered the Pacific islands in ash, cut power and severed communications.

The fourth edition of the World Council of Churches (WCC) Eco-School on Water, Food and Climate Justice will be held 18-24 January 2021 in the Pacific region in five countries (Fiji, Tonga, Vanuatu, Tuvalu & Solomon Islands).

In a letter of solidarity to church leaders in the Solomon Islands, Fiji, Vanuatu and Tonga and the Pacific, World Council of Churches (WCC) acting general secretary Fr Ioan Sauca expressed sadness and concern over the recent devastation caused by Tropical Cyclone Harold.

Taking into consideration the growing global concerns and implications of the current spread of COVID-19 (coronavirus), the World Council of Churches (WCC) will postpone its annual Ecumenical Continuing Formation on Youth seminar in the Pacific to the end of the year 2020, with a date to be announced. The event was scheduled for June 2020 in Tonga.
The WCC is taking steps to prevent the spread of COVID-19, including cancelling or postponing certain meetings and limiting travels.

Die Pazifikinseln leiden nicht nur heute noch unter den dauerhaften Folgen der über einen Zeitraum von 50 Jahren durchgeführten Atomwaffentests, sondern sie sind auch die Region, in der die hochbrisanten Folgen des Klimawandels am schnellsten spürbar werden dürften. Dies erfuhr die Kommission der Kirchen für internationale Angelegenheiten (CCIA) des Ökumenischen Rates der Kirchen auf ihrer Tagung diese Woche in Brisbane.

Pacific islands experience lasting impacts of the 50 years of nuclear testing and the region has become a global hotspot of climate change, the World Council of Churches (WCC) Commission of Churches on International Affairs (CCIA) learned in its meeting this week in Brisbane, Australia.

Junge Erwachsene können sich jetzt zur Teilnahme an einem vom Ökumenischen Rat der Kirchen (ÖRK) veranstalteten Seminar zur ökumenischen Fortbildung anmelden, das im Juni 2020 stattfindet. Das in Tonga durchgeführte Seminar befasst sich mit transformativer Männlichkeit und Weiblichkeit

Die Frist für die Anmeldung zum Seminar läuft bis zum 20. März.

Applications are open to young people for participation in a June 2020 World Council of Churches (WCC) Ecumenical Continuing Formation seminar. To be held in Tonga, the seminar will focus on transformative masculinity and femininity.

The deadline for applications is 20 March.

In a letter to Sen. Maynard Alfred, chairperson of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs & Trade of the Republic of the Marshall Islands, the World Council of Churches (WCC) urged the nation to sign and ratify the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW).

„Sie sind die erste. Sie sind die erste von allen Mitgliedskirchen des Ökumenischen Rates der Kirchen weltweit, die die Morgendämmerung jedes neuen Tages begrüßt und Gott preist“, sagte ÖRK-Generalsekretär Tveit während einer Predigt am 6. August in der Centenary Chapel der Freien Wesleyanischen Kirche von Tonga in Nuku‘alofa.

“You are the first. You are the first among all the member churches of the World Council of Churches around the world to greet the dawn of every new day and to praise God,” said World Council of Churches (WCC) general secretary Rev. Dr Olav Fykse Tveit in a sermon delivered 6 August at the Centenary Chapel of the Free Wesleyan Church of Tonga in Nuku’alofa.

The first of a series of 12 monthly Bible studies inspired by themes related to the Pilgrimage of Justice and Peace is now available online on the website of the World Council of Churches (WCC).

In Tonga gibt es Wasser soweit das Auge reicht, aber nicht unbedingt für den Bedarf der Menschen. Mele’ana Puloka der Freien Wesleyanischen Kirche von Tonga ist Präsidentin des Ökumenischen Rates der Kirchen (ÖRK) für die Region Pazifik und lebt auf den Inseln, die etwa 106 000 Einwohnerinnen und Einwohner zählen.

In Tonga there is lot of water to see, but not necessarily a lot for people to use. Mele’ana Puloka, a member of the Free Wesleyan Church of Tonga, is World Council of Churches president for the Pacific, living on the islands that have a population of about 106,000.

Two major crises have marked the months since the WCC called Katalina Tahaafe-Williams to work in Geneva on its migration, indigenous, and multicultural ministry programmes. When she took up the job in October, the European refugee crisis was in full flow. Then in November, terrorists attacked Paris.

After a concerted examination of the evidence presented at the Vienna Conference on the Humanitarian Impact of Nuclear Weapons and two earlier conferences, 44 of the states present called for a ban on nuclear weapons. The host government Austria added momentum with a specific, cooperative pledge to “fill the legal gap for the prohibition of nuclear weapons” and eliminate them.