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“Mission is not an action or activity we can choose. It is an expression of daily life. It belongs to the whole church and is not the function of just a few or of an agency,” says Father Ioan Sauca, deputy general secretary of the World Council of Churches.

The Romani people, also known as the Roma, migrated from northwest India 1,500 years ago. Once they arrived in Europe, they spread across the continent from the Balkan region. Now Romani live worldwide, though principally in Europe.

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.

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.

The Churches’ Commission for Migrants in Europe and the WCC have published a revised and updated edition of their joint study, Mapping Migration: Mapping Churches’ Responses in Europe. The 2016 text explores challenges and changes in the European church landscape in light of international migration.

Bible Societies are working in more than 200 countries and territories around the world to make known the Word of God. At the heart of the work – from the translation of Holy Scripture to publishing, distribution and advocacy, and engagement activities – is the principle of collaborating with and serving the churches.

In the wake of recent crisis with the refugees in Europe, it is “absolutely and critically necessary that all European states take their proper responsibility in terms of reception and support for people seeking refuge, safety and a better future for themselves and their families. This cannot be left only to the states where they enter first,” says the WCC general secretary.

Auf ihrer Tagung vom 17. bis 24 Juni nahm die neu zusammengestellte Kommission für Glauben und Kirchenverfassung des ÖRK die Definition ihrer wichtigsten Linien für ökumenische Studien und gemeinsame Aktivitäten von 2015 bis zur nächsten Vollversammlung 2020 in Angriff.

Meeting from 17 to 24 June, the newly reconstituted Commission on Faith and Order of the WCC has begun to define its principal trajectories for ecumenical study and common activity from 2015 until the next WCC Assembly in 2020.

Patriarch Daniel of the Romanian Orthodox Church interacted with the Faith and Order Commission of the WCC on 22 June during their week-long meeting at the Caraiman Monastery in the southern Carpathian Mountains of Romania.

Anlässlich ihrer ersten Tagung in der neuen Zusammensetzung seit der 10. Vollversammlung des ÖRK hat die 49-köpfige Kommission für Glauben und Kirchenverfassung fünf stellvertretende Vorsitzende gewählt. Sie unterstützen die Vorsitzende der Kommission, die britische Theologin Pastorin Dr. Susan Durber der Vereinigten Reformierten Kirche des Vereinigten Königreichs, die 2014 vom ÖRK-Zentralausschuss gewählt worden war.

At its first meeting after being reconstituted following the 10th Assembly of the WCC, the 49-member Faith and Order Commission has elected five vice-moderators to assist the commission’s moderator, British theologian Rev. Dr Susan Durber of the United Reformed Church in the United Kingdom.

Während eines Besuchs in Rumänien sprach der ÖRK-Generalsekretär vor der Kommission für Glauben und Kirchenverfassung und traf den rumänischen Präsidenten Johannis und den Patriarchen der Rumänisch-Orthodoxen Kirche.

On a visit to Romania from 16 to 18 June during which he addressed a meeting of the Faith and Order Commission, WCC general secretary Rev. Dr Olav Fykse Tveit paid formal visits to Romanian President Klaus Werner Johannis, and Patriarch Daniel of the Romanian Orthodox Church.

In tiefer Sorge um die Migrantinnen und Migranten in vielen Regionen der Welt, insbesondere um diejenigen, „die aus Verzweiflung unter großen Risiken und Gefahren reisen“, erklärte der Exekutivausschuss des ÖRK: „Alle Mitglieder der internationalen Gemeinschaft haben die moralische und rechtliche Verpflichtung, das Leben der Menschen zu retten, die auf See oder auf der Durchreise in Lebensgefahr schweben, ungeachtet ihrer Herkunft oder ihres Status.“

Deeply concerned for migrants in many regions, especially those “driven to undertake journeys of desperate risk and danger”, the WCC Executive Committee has declared: “All members of the international community have a moral and legal duty to save the lives of those in jeopardy at sea or in transit, regardless of their origin and status.”