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The World Council of Churches hosted 60 visitors during the week of 11-14 March.

In pastoral letters to His All-Holiness Patriarch Bartholomew, His Beatitude Hieronymos II, Archbishop of Athens and All Greece, and the Evangelical Church of Greece, World Council of Churches general secretary Rev. Prof. Dr Jerry Pillay conveyed sincere sympathies as wildfires raged across the land.

As a search continued for missing migrants after a fishing boat capsized off the coast of Greece, the World Council of Churches (WCC) conveyed prayers to the families of victims, and to the churches in Greece and elsewhere that are responding.

The World Council of Churches (WCC) delivered a memorial message at a service held 28 May at the Monastery of Timios Prodromos, Akritochori, Greece, marking one year since the death of Metropolitan Gennadios of Sassima, former WCC vice moderator.

The World Council of Churches (WCC) gave thanks to God for the three decades-long ministry of His Beatitude Anastasios, archbishop of Tirana, Durrës and All Albania.

A new volume—“Contemporary ecotheology, climate justice and environmental stewardship in the world”—is the latest of the continued fruits of the 6th International Conference on Ecological theology and Environmental Ethics, or Ecothee, which took place in September 2019 at the Orthodox Academy of Crete in Kolymvari.

Greeks have watched their country burn, knowing that the flames also consume many other parts of the world, says the Church of Greece.

As wildfires continue to rage in Greece, the USA, Albania, and Russia, the World Council of Churches (WCC) reached out in solidarity to churches and communities that continue to be evacuated as well as those who have lost everything. 

Upon news that a 7.0-magnitude earthquake struck in the Aegean Sea off the coasts of Turkey and Greece on 30 October, World Council of Churches interim general secretary Rev. Prof. Dr Ioan Sauca called for prayers, and expressed solidarity with churches and responders who continue to help hundreds of injured and traumatized people.

A dozen global and regional religious organizations released an advocacy statement on the situation of migrants and refugees in Europe that defines their calling as Christians to “welcome the stranger,” and urges the creation of a world in which “we become human together.”

Χριστιανικές οργανώσεις που εκπροσωπούν 2 δισεκατομμύρια ανθρώπους —περίπου το ένα τρίτο του παγκόσμιου πληθυσμού— έχουν δημοσιεύσει μια δήλωση σχετικά με την δεινή κατάσταση των μεταναστών και των προσφύγων στην Ευρώπη, διεκδικώντας μια πιο συμπονετική προσέγγιση.

Christian organizations representing 2 billion people—about one-third of the world's population—have released a statement on the dire situation of migrants and refugees in Europe, and they are demanding a more compassionate approach.

Δεκάδες παγκόσμιες και περιφερειακές θρησκευτικές οργανώσεις δημοσίευσαν μια δήλωση υποστήριξης σχετικά με την κατάσταση των μεταναστών και των προσφύγων στην Ευρώπη, η οποία ορίζει την αποστολή τους ως Χριστιανών να «καλωσορίσουν τον ξένο» και παροτρύνει τη δημιουργία ενός κόσμου στον οποίο «μαζί βρίσκουμε την ανθρωπιά μας».

Ο Αρχιεπίσκοπος Ιερώνυμος Αθηνών και πάσης Ελλάδος εκφράζει τους προβληματισμούς από την ορθόδοξη οπτική σχετικά με τη σημερινή κατάσταση των προσφύγων, τόσο στην Ελλάδα όσο και πέραν αυτής, και απαντά πώς οι εκκλησίες μπορούν να βοηθήσουν τόσο στις προσπάθειες ανακούφισης όσο και στη μακροπρόθεσμη ευημερία.

Archbishop Ieronymos of Athens and All Greece offers reflections from an Orthodox perspective on the current plight of refugees, both in Greece and beyond, and how churches can help with both relief efforts and long-term wellbeing.

Rev. Fr Dr Lawrence Iwuamadi is dean of the Ecumenical Institute, the graduate school which opened its academic year this week. Below, Iwuamadi reflects on the arrival of new students at the Ecumenical Institute during this remarkable time.