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Registrations are open for a World Council of Churches webinar on 19 January that will launch the first volume of a major new history of ecumenism produced by a team of academics and scholars coordinated by the Italian-based Foundation for Religious Studies (FSCIRE).

Los medios y comunicadores están invitados a un evento de “club de prensa” en línea en el que podrán hablar francamente sobre el tema “Instrumentos digitales - ¿Bendición o maldición?”

Media and communicators are invited to an online “press club” event during which they can speak candidly on the theme “Digital instruments – Blessing or Curse?”

In a first-ever online visit to the World Council of Churches (WCC), members of the Focolare Movement gathered on 14 January in place of what, until COVID-19 prevented it, has annually been a joyful in-person gathering.

As of 4 May 2020, the WCC Annual Review 2019 is available for download online. The annual review records many of the WCC’s activities undertaken in 2019 and continuing into 2020.

Seventy-five years ago, on 9 April 1945, the German Lutheran theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer, with six other members of the conspiracy to overthrow Adolf Hitler, was hanged at Flossenbürg execution camp in Germany. He was 39.

In an online prayer service on 1 April, the World Council of Churches (WCC) bid an official farewell to its outgoing general secretary Rev. Dr Olav Fykse Tveit, who will take a new role as presiding bishop of the Church of Norway.

En un servicio de oración en línea celebrado el 1 de abril, el Consejo Mundial de Iglesias (CMI) dijo oficialmente adiós a su secretario general saliente, Rev. Dr. Olav Fykse Tveit, que ocupará un nuevo puesto como obispo presidente de la Iglesia de Noruega.

On 30 January, the Church Council of the Church of Norway appointed World Council of Churches (WCC) general secretary Rev. Dr Olav Fykse Tveit as the new presiding bishop for the Church of Norway.

El 30 de enero, el Consejo de la Iglesia de Noruega nombró al secretario general del Consejo Mundial de Iglesias (CMI), el Rev. Dr. Olav Fykse Tveit, nuevo obispo primado de la Iglesia de Noruega.

Bishop Petra Bosse-Huber, from the Evangelical Church in Germany, is also a member of the World Council of Churches (WCC) Executive Committee. WCC Communication spoke to her about preparations for the WCC 11th Assembly, to be held in 2021 in Karlsruhe, Germany.

Rev. Dr Martin Robra has been a key contributor to the ecumenical movement for the last 25 years, working for the World Council of Churches (WCC).

Robra is a theologian and ordained pastor who served as programme executive for the WCC for Ecumenical Continuing Formation, Roman Catholic relations, the joint inter-faith project with the International Labour Organisation Advancing Peace through social justice and support for the Pilgrimage of Justice and Peace.

WCC Communication asked Robra to reflect on his years of service to the WCC fellowship.

Rev. Dr. Martin Robra ha realizado una contribución fundamental al movimiento ecuménico durante los últimos 25 años, a través de su trabajo para el Consejo Mundial de Iglesias (CMI).
El Rev. Robra es un teólogo y pastor ordenado que se ha desempeñado como responsable del programa del CMI de Formación ecuménica continua, de relaciones con la Iglesia Católica Romana, y del proyecto interreligioso conjunto con la Organización Internacional del Trabajo Promover la paz a través de la justicia social, y ha llevado a cabo una labor de apoyo a la peregrinación de justicia y paz.
El departamento de Comunicación del CMI ha pedido al Rev. Robra que reflexione sobre sus años de servicio a la comunidad del CMI.

Thirty years ago, on 9 November 1989, when the Berlin Wall fell, the Nicolaikirche in Leipzig had gained a reputation as a gathering point for events signalling the end of an era of communist rule in what was then East Germany.

In a visit to Bern on 4-5 November, World Council of Churches (WCC) general secretary Rev. Dr Olav Fykse Tveit visited with leaders of the Federation of Swiss Protestant Churches, focusing on the role of the WCC in the future shaping of the ecumenical movement.

Tveit spoke during the general assembly of the Federation of Swiss Protestant Churches, exploring the question “Where does the ecumenical movement stand today and where should the WCC take in it in the future?”

En una visita a Berna los días 4 y 5 de noviembre, el secretario general del Consejo Mundial de Iglesias (CMI), Rev. Dr. Olav Fykse Tveit, visitó a los dirigentes de la Federación de Iglesias Protestantes de Suiza, centrándose en el papel del CMI en la futura configuración del movimiento ecuménico.

El Rev. Tveit pronunció unas palabras durante la asamblea general de la Federación de Iglesias Protestantes de Suiza, explorando la pregunta “¿Cuál es la posición actual del movimiento ecuménico y qué debería tener en cuenta el CMI en el futuro?”

The 10th World Assembly of Religions for Peace is convening in Lindau, Germany, this week. The multi-religious gathering is being organized from 20-23 August in partnership with the Foundation Peace Dialogue of the World Religions and Civil Society.