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The World Council of Churches (WCC) has published online new materials related to the 2024 WCC-EAPPI Easter Initiative: “Out of the darkness – Easter solidarity with the Holy Land.”

The World Council of Churches (WCC) is sharing materials for a “Week of Prayer for Overcoming Racism and Xenophobia”—a week that includes the UN International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination on 21 March and the UN International Day for the Remembrance of Victims of Slavery and the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade on 25 March.

The World Council of Churches, in a statement before the UN Human Rights Council, urged addressing the often-hidden condition of obstetric fistula, which violates the rights of thousands of women and girls in the world’s poorest countries. 

The World Council of Churches, in an intervention before the UN Human Rights Council, called upon the UN to ensure that counter-terrorism laws and practices, including efforts to combat terrorism financing, do not unjustly curtail the legitimate activities of civil society organizations, impede civic space, or hinder humanitarian endeavors in the Philippines. 

Drei Kommissionen des Ökumenischen Rates der Kirchen (ÖRK), die sich diese Woche versammeln, haben stellvertretende Vorsitzende gewählt.

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. 

Three World Council of Churches (WCC) commissions meeting this week at the Ecumenical Centre in Geneva have elected vice moderators.

Menschen der ganzen Welt, die sich in drei kritischen Kommissionen des Ökumenischen Rates der Kirchen (ÖRK) einsetzen, haben die globalen geopolitischen Trends und ihre Auswirkung auf ihre Arbeit und die Kirchenmitglieder besprochen.

Die Diskussionsrunde wurde von der Kommission der Kirchen für internationale Angelegenheiten geleitet und von Dr. Mathews George Chunakara, Generalsekretär der Christlichen Konferenz Asiens, moderiert.

Die Oster-Intiative des Ökumenischen Rates der Kirchen (ÖRK) ruft dazu auf, den schweren Stein der Gewalt, des Krieges und der Besatzung, des Schmerzes und des Leides wegzuwälzen und die Welt daran zu erinnern, was es braucht, um Frieden zu schaffen und Schwerter in Pflugscharen zu verwandeln.

A World Council of Churches (WCC) Easter Initiative will lift up the call to roll away the heavy stone of violence, war and occupation, pain and suffering, and to remind the world of what is needed to bring about peace, to transform swords into ploughshares.

People from around the world involved in the work of three critical World Council of Churches (WCC) commissions have discussed global geopolitical trends impacting their activities and church members. The panel, led by the Commission of the Churches on International Affairs, was moderated by Dr Mathews George Chunakara, general secretary of the Christian Conference of Asia.