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During a World Council of Churches morning prayer—focusing on the churches and people of Belarus, Moldova, Russia, and Ukraine – a reflection by Prof. Dr Dmytro Tsolin focused on both the pain of the war in Ukraine as well as how we hang onto hope.

Durante la oración mundial por la paz celebrada el 22 de marzo, personas cristianas de todo el mundo se reunieron para orar por la paz en un mundo quebrantado y para escuchar las voces de las personas que sufren en Ucrania y otras zonas asoladas por el conflicto.

During a Global Peace Prayer on 22 March, Christians across the world drew together to pray for peace in a broken world, and to listen to voices from people suffering in Ukraine and other conflict-ridden areas.

A Global Peace Prayer on 22 March will draw Christians together in hope for a better future. A communique from a prayer planning committee explained that Christians are called into prayer and advocacy for peace. “In a global context where war and violence abound, the practice of peace has become even more urgent,” reads the message.

La oración mundial por la paz, el 22 de marzo, unirá a los cristianos con esperanza en un futuro mejor. En un comunicado, el comité de planificación de oraciones explicó que los cristianos están llamados a orar por la paz y a promover la paz. “En un contexto mundial en que abundan las guerras y la violencia, la práctica de la paz es aún más urgente”, dice el mensaje.

En medio de una de las peores crisis de salud pública del mundo, los cristianos de Brasil mantienen su tradición de celebrar la Semana de Oración por la Unidad de los Cristianos en vísperas de Pentecostés. Por segundo año, se reunirán en oración aunque sin encuentros físicos.

In the midst of one of the worst public health crises in the world, Christians in Brazil are upholding their tradition of celebrating the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity in the lead up to Pentecost. For the second year, they will be gathering in prayer without physical gatherings though. 

The new surge in COVID-19 related hospitalizations and deaths has drastically increased the need for pastoral care almost everywhere. Brazil and Great Britain are two hard-hit countries, where the pandemic has brought existential questions on the table.  

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.

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.

Una conversación durante el camino de regreso a Chile tras la IV Asamblea del CMI plantó una semilla ecuménica que dio lugar a una maravillosa experiencia de unidad cristiana: un acuerdo de colaboración entre la Iglesia Pentecostal de Chile y la Iglesia Unida de Cristo.

Despite a signed and ratified peace agreement, the long journey of regional churches and the WCC in support of peace in Colombia is not over, says the WCC central committee, which urges churches, governments, and others to press toward fulfillment of the terms and promises of the agreement, to prevent momentum ceasing and violence resurging.

A pesar de un acuerdo de paz firmado y ratificado, el largo viaje de las iglesias de la región y del CMI en apoyo a la paz en Colombia no ha terminado, dice el Comité Central del CMI, que insta a las iglesias, gobiernos y otras partes a presionar para que se cumplan las condiciones y promesas del acuerdo, y así evitar perder el impulso y que vuelva a surgir la violencia.

You wouldn’t pay two thousand times more than the value of a cup of coffee, so why pay that for a glass of water? That’s one of the reasons why members of the World Council of Churches’s Ecumenical Water Network (EWN) are encouraging you to consider joining the “Blue Community” and to stop using bottled water in places where tap water is safely and freely available.

In writing a story for the 70th anniversary of the World Council of Churches (WCC), Elias Crisóstomo Abramides of Argentina, from the Ecumenical Patriarchate, is writing the story of his life. His service at the WCC opened for him the gate to meeting and loving “the very good Creation of God”: love, respect and admiration for the life of his neighbours and for all creation.

Al escribir una historia para el 70º aniversario del Consejo Mundial de Iglesias (CMI), Elías Crisóstomo Abramides de Argentina, del Patriarcado Ecuménico, escribe la historia de su vida. Su labor en el CMI le abrió las puertas para conocer y amar “la muy buena Creación de Dios”: amor, respeto y admiración por la vida de sus prójimos y por toda la Creación.

World Council of Churches (WCC) General Secretary, Rev. Dr Olav Fykse Tveit has told participants at the Global Christian Forum’s Third (GCF) Global Gathering in Bogota, Colombia that the GCF is remarkable in building trust among participants and opening ways for new forms of cooperation.