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"The best thought is one that always leaves a certain crevice for the possibility that everything is totally different at the same time" - Rev. Martina Viktorie Kopecka, moderator of the World Council of Churches ECHOS Commission, cites this as her favorite quote from Václav Havel, opponent to Czechoslovak’s communist regime and later president of his country.

“El mejor pensamiento es aquel que siempre deja cierto espacio para la posibilidad de que todo sea totalmente diferente al mismo tiempo.”- Václav Havel La Rev. Martina Viktorie Kopecka, moderadora de la Comisión ECHOS del Consejo Mundial de Iglesias, menciona esta cita como su cita favorita de Václav Havel, opositor al régimen comunista de Checoslovaquia y, más tarde, presidente de su país.

Twenty-nine students from the WCC Bossey Ecumenical Institute traveled to Rome for the annual study visit to the Vatican, and to take part in the inauguration of the 2019 Week of Prayer for Christian Unity, which is observed 18-25 January.

Veintinueve estudiantes del Instituto Ecuménico de Bossey del CMI viajaron a Roma para la visita anual de estudios al Vaticano, y para participar en la inauguración de la Semana de Oración por la Unidad de los Cristianos de 2019, que se celebra del 18 al 25 de enero.

Rev. Martina V. Kopecká of the Czechoslovak Hussite Church represented the World Council of Churches at a Synod of Bishops (XV Ordinary General Assembly) which met in Rome under the theme “Young People, the Faith and Vocational Discernment.”

La Rev. Martina V. Kopecká de la Iglesia Usita Checoslovaca representó al Consejo Mundial de Iglesias en la XV Asamblea Ordinaria del Sínodo de los Obispos, reunida en Roma con el tema “Los jóvenes, la fe y el discernimiento vocacional”.

Each year students from all over the world arrive at Bossey near Geneva for a three-month language training course to pave their way for ecumenical studies that follow on straight after. “The title captures the goal of the course,” says Father Lawrence Iwuamadi, the Nigerian priest who studied at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome and is academic dean of the Ecumenical Institute.

Participants in the 2015 Agape International Political Camp have explored the concept of security and issued a call for a “pedagogy of and for peace” founded on justice.

At the Central Committee meeting of the WCC, leadership of the Council’s consultative bodies was announced. These bodies will steer through the work of the WCC in accomplishing the call from its 10th Assembly to engage in a “pilgrimage of justice and peace”. The WCC assembly was held in the Republic of Korea in 2013.