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As the World Council of Churches celebrates its 75th anniversary, a series of feature stories from different regions of the world will portray ecumenism at the local level—within churches, communities, and individuals who embody the spirit of ecumenism in unique ways. The feature story below offers a glimpse of some facets of ecumenism present in the Philippines.

Jocabed Solano is attending COP27, bringing an Indigenous perspective from Panama and from Latin America.

Located in the Flores neighborhood of the City of Buenos Aires, for almost 50 years the Argentine Commission for Refugees and Migrants has carried out committed work in favor of migrants, refugees, and asylum seekers.

Church leaders in the Philippines gathered in an ecumenical memorial service in Manila on 21 September, the 50^th anniversary of the imposition of martial law, to solemnly recall people of faith who were tortured and killed during the brutal regime of president Ferdinand Marcos.

Cuando los participantes en la Primera Asamblea del Consejo Mundial de Iglesias (CMI) se reunieron en Ámsterdam en agosto de 1948, los Países Bajos atestiguaban la violencia de la Segunda Guerra Mundial. El puerto de Róterdam resurgía de la casi destrucción. Muchas otras ciudades, pueblos y aldeas de toda Europa estaban luchando por recuperarse. Al este, Alemania y Austria estaban divididas en zonas de ocupación dirigidas por las potencias aliadas. Dos meses antes, las tensiones entre la Unión Soviética y los ocupantes occidentales de la antigua capital alemana dieron lugar al inicio del puente aéreo de Berlín. Desde 1945, las publicaciones han ido incrementando el uso del término "Guerra Fría".

As participants in the First Assembly of the World Council of Churches (WCC) gathered at Amsterdam during August 1948, the Netherlands bore witness to the violence of the Second World War. The port of Rotterdam was rising from near destruction. Many other cities, towns and villages across Europe were struggling to recover. To the east, Germany and Austria were divided into zones of occupation administered by the Allied Powers. Two months earlier, tensions between the Soviet Union and the Western occupiers of the former German capital led to the start of the Berlin Airlift. Since 1945, publications had been increasing their use of the term “Cold War”.