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A warm welcome with cheers and high expectations awaited WCC general secretary Rev. Dr Olav Fykse Tveit when he touched down in Kingston earlier this week. The Jamaican capital was the first stop of a 10-day tour in the Caribbean.

Zur Eröffnung der Internationalen Konsultation zur Dekade der Kirchen in Solidarität mit den Frauen am 2. Oktober haben ÖRK-Führungskräfte Worte der Ermutigung für die Zukunft formuliert und Entschlossenheit zum Ausdruck gebracht.

As a Global Consultation on the Decade of the Churches in Solidarity with Women opened on 2 October, World Council of Churches (WCC) leaders offered words of encouragement and determination for the future.

Celebrating the 70th anniversary of the World Council of Churches, the board of the Anders-Frostenson Foundation led a sing-along concert at the Ecumenical Centre Chapel on 28 September, offering participants a unique experience full of emotion.

On 21 September, an event unfolded in Liberia to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the WCC. Held in conjunction with other civil society organizations observing the International Day of Peace in Monrovia, people gathered for a ceremony and a parade.

In 1984 a pastor from Uruguay became the first Latin American to be elected as general secretary of the WCC. The late Emilio Castro (1927 - 2013) left an unmatched legacy of passionate ecumenism behind him. His book “Pasion y compromise con el Reino de Dios”, first published in 2007, has now been translated into English and released in an edited version.

In den ökumenischen Jugendlagern der ÖRK in den späten 1950er Jahren hat der junge Govaert Chr. Kok aus den Niederlanden Lektionen fürs Leben gelernt – und eine ganz besondere Person kennengelernt.

At WCC’s ecumenical workcamps in the late 1950s, a young Govaert Chr.Kok of the Netherlands would learn lessons for life – and encounter a very special person.

Die Leitung des Zentralausschusses des Ökumenischen Rates der Kirchen (ÖRK) traf sich am 16. und 17. September in Genf, um die Tagung des Exekutivausschusses sowie den gemeinsamen Tag im November zur ökumenischen Diakonie mit dem ACT-Bündnis in Uppsala, Schweden, vorzubereiten.

The leadership of the World Council of Churches (WCC) Central Committee met in Geneva on 16-17 September to prepare for the Executive Committee meeting and the joint day on Ecumenical Diakonia with ACT Alliance in Uppsala, Sweden, in November.

Der Generalsekretär des Ökumenischen Rates der Kirchen, Pastor Dr. Olav Fykse Tveit, hat der Vollversammlung der Gemeinschaft Evangelischer Kirchen in Europa (GEKE), die in dieser Woche in Basel (Schweiz) stattfindet, Grußworte überbracht.

World Council of Churches (WCC) general secretary Rev. Dr Olav Fykse Tveit offered a greeting at the General Assembly of the Community of Protestant Churches in Europe, being held this week in Basel, Switzerland.

Funeral services are scheduled for Thursday, 13 September, for Loïs Meyhoffer, longtime staff member of the World Council of Churches, who died this week at nearly 100 years. A Geneva native, Meyhoffer joined the fledgling organization’s refugee assistance efforts in 1949 and moved to Germany to oversee its efforts there, returning to Geneva in 1955 and working on staff until her retirement.

Während eines Gesprächs auf der Heimreise nach Chile nach Beendigung der Vierten ÖRK-Vollversammlung wurde eine ökumenische Saat gepflanzt, die zu eine bereichernden Erfahrung christlicher Einheit herangewachsen ist - die Partnerschaftsvereinbarung zwischen der Pfingstkirche in Chile und der Vereinigten Kirche Christi.

A conversation on the way home to Chile from the WCC 4th Assembly planted an ecumenical seed that grew into a wonderful experience of Christian unity – the partnership agreement between the Pentecostal Church of Chile and the United Church of Christ.

Ein Höhepunkt des ökumenischen aktiven Lebens von Bischof im Ruhestand Dr. h.c. Rolf Koppe war zweifellos die Reise in 2005 nach Kuba als Teil einer ÖRK-Delegation.

A trip to Cuba in 2005 with a WCC delegation was undoubtedly a high point of German retired Bishop Rolf Koppe’s ecumenical career.

Haben Sie jemals daran gedacht, ein Oratorium über die ökumenische Bewegung zu komponieren und dieses Werk dem Ökumenischen Rat der Kirchen zu widmen?

Have you ever thought of composing an oratorio about the ecumenical movement and dedicating it to the World Council of Churches?

The archbishop Dr Nathan Söderblom, an ecumenical forerunner and messenger of peace in war-torn Europe, challenged a deeply divided Christianity 100 years ago. Against all odds, the Stockholm Conference on Life and Work in 1925 gathered church leaders at a scale the world had not seen since Nicaea 1600 years earlier. And it did not end there.