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The World Council of Churches (WCC) has prepared global prayers at the request of its member churches and regional partners to allow the many people affected by COVID-19 to express sorrow and nurture hope for the future.

Under the title “Christ’s Love in the Midst of Pandemic: Moving the World to Reconciliation and Solidarity,” the World Council of Churches (WCC) journal The Ecumenical Review explores a range of theological, spiritual, and societal questions raised by the COVID-19 pandemic.

 

The National Council of Churches in Korea has published a Korean translation of The Light of Peace: Churches in Solidarity with the Korean Peninsula, a book the World Council of Churches (WCC) fellowship is using to recognize 70 years of unresolved conflict on the Korean Peninsula.

The World Council of Churches (WCC) has released a new publication,“Health-Promoting Churches: Reflections on Health and Healing for Churches on Commemorative World Health Days,” that is designed to accompany churches and strengthen their health-related ministries.

A new English-language biography of Willem A. Visser ’t Hooft, the first general secretary of the World Council of Churches (WCC), has been published in the year that marks the 120th anniversary of his birth.

The new issue of International Review of Mission includes a variety of articles, ranging from post-colonialism to public theology, and from mission models to Pope Francis’s apostolic exhortation. Two of the articles are specifically concerned with healing, which is a pertinent theme at this current period of the coronavirus. These two articles clearly indicate that the biblical concept of health consists as it does of the welfare, health, and prosperity of the individual person as well as of communities as a whole. Individuals are always part of the communities they belong to.

Technology is transforming the world, and the latest issue of The Ecumenical Review, the quarterly journal of the World Council of Churches (WCC), offers theological and ethical perspectives on the digital age.

Dr. Stephen Brown ist Redakteur der Zeitschrift The Ecumenical Review. Ein Artikel der aktuellen Ausgabe trägt den Titel „Der Geist der Wahrheit im digitalen Zeitalter“ und geht der Frage nach, wie unsere Wahrnehmung der Wirklichkeit immer mehr davon abhängt, wie Kommunikations- und Informations-Ökosysteme im Kontext der sich entwickelnden Technologie organisiert und reglementiert werden.

Dr Stephen Brown is the editor of The Ecumenical Review. The most recent edition, “The Spirit of Truth in a Digital Age,” reflects on how our perceptions of reality are becoming dependent on the way communication and information ecosystems are organized and regulated as technology has developed.

Der Ökumenischer Rat der Kirchen (ÖRK) hat ganz neu eine Online-Publikation mit dem Titel „Health and Hope: The Church in Mission and Unity“ (Gesundheit und Hoffnung: Die Kirche in Mission und Einigkeit) herausgegeben, eine Sammlung kürzlich veröffentlichter Artikel, in denen die weltweiten Anstrengungen angesichts der COVID-19-Pandemie ihren Nachklang finden. Zusammen mit diesem Dokument gibt der ÖRK-Kommunikationsdienst auch die persönlichen Ansichten von gläubigen Gesundheitsexperten rund um die Welt weiter. Dr. Beate Jakob ist Referentin für Gesundheit und Heilung am Deutschen Institut für Ärztliche Mission e. V.

The World Council of Churches (WCC) has newly released an online publication, "Health and Hope: The Church in Mission and Unity," a collection of previously published articles that resonate with the worldwide struggle amid the COVID-19 pandemic. In conjunction with this resource, WCC communication is sharing personal perspectives from faith-based health experts across the world. Dr Beate Jakob is a consultant for health and healing with the German Institute for Medical Mission.

Der Ökumenische Rat der Kirchen (ÖRK) hat jüngst eine englischsprachige Online-Publikation mit dem Titel „Health and Hope: The Church in Mission and Unity“ veröffentlicht. Die Publikation ist eine Sammlung verschiedener Artikel, die bereits zu einem früheren Zeitpunkt veröffentlicht wurden, aber im derzeitigen weltweiten Kampf gegen die COVID-19-Pandemie neue Bedeutung gewonnen haben.

The World Council of Churches (WCC) has newly released an online publication, “Health and Hope: The Church in Mission and Unity,” a collection of previously published articles that resonate with the worldwide struggle amid the COVID-19 pandemic.

As the World Council of Churches prepares for its 11th Assembly in 2021, a special “virtual” issue of the WCC’s journal International Review of Mission is now available online presenting a set of 12 articles published following the WCC’s previous assembly in 2013 in Busan, Republic of Korea.

The latest issue of The Ecumenical Review, the quarterly journal of the World Council of Churches (WCC), focuses on “Global Manifestations of Racism Today,” with a set of articles that originated at a theological symposium organized in Japan in 2019 as part of the WCC’s Pilgrimage of Justice and Peace.

The World Council of Churches (WCC) condemned an attack on a Hanukkah celebration at a rabbi´s home north of New York City, on 28 December, stabbing and wounding five people. Several state and local officials have described the location of stabbing as a synagogue.

Current Dialogue, the World Council of Churches’ (WCC) long-standing journal on interreligious relations, is now available online and as a print issue in a new format.

Die Studierenden lauschen aufmerksam und konzentriert während Prof. Dr. Jürgen Moltmann erzählt, dass er sich, nachdem er Mitglied in der Hitlerjugend gewesen sei und als „Patriot“ während des Zweiten Weltkrieges auch in der deutschen Bundeswehr gedient habe, vom Nationalismus und dem entsetzlichen Grauen dieses Konflikts abgewendet habe.

Students sat entranced as the theologian recounted that after serving in the Hitler Youth and the German Army as a “patriot” in World War II, he turned his back on nationalism and the horrors of that conflict.