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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.

Brought together by the South Sudan Council of Churches, women and men are sharing the pain of many years of war and associated gender-based violence in a series of workshops in Kenya and Burundi.

The life of Rev. Dr Rena Joyce Weller Karefa-Smart is being remembered and commended this week by the WCC fellowship after her passing last week. Karefa-Smart was the first Pan African woman to graduate in 1945 from Yale Divinity School. She was a champion for global ecumenism over the course of a long and distinguished career. An attendee of the first WCC Assembly, she was also a procession leader and author of the liturgies at the second WCC Assembly in Evanston, Illinois (USA).

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 a pilgrimage of justice and peace in Burundi on 8-10 November, African women of faith met some of the world’s most pressing problems - poverty, violence and climate change - with faith, hope and action.

A consultation in Arusha, Tanzania, has issued a communique entitled “Sustainable Peace in Burundi.” The meeting, organized by the World Council of Churches and the United Nations Office on Genocide Prevention and the Responsibility to Protect, drew together Burundian religious leaders on 18-19 October.

Como resultado de una consulta celebrada en Arusha (Tanzania), se ha publicado un comunicado titulado "La paz sostenible en Burundi". La consulta, organizada por el Consejo Mundial de Iglesias y la Oficina de las Naciones Unidas sobre la Prevención del Genocidio y la Responsabilidad de Proteger, reunió a los líderes religiosos burundeses del 18 al 19 de octubre.

Sierra Leone has been burying hundreds of victims of a mudslide that swept away homes on the edge of the capital Freetown. “Please continue to pray with us”, asked Bishop Arnold Temple, from the Methodist Church Sierra Leone.

Sierra Leona ha estado enterrando a cientos de víctimas de un deslizamiento de tierra que barrió los hogares de las afueras de la capital, Freetown. “Por favor, sigan orando con nosotros”, pidió el obispo Arnold Temple, de la Iglesia Metodista de Sierra Leona.

A plenary discussion on support by religious communities for the rights of children, and a first draft of the statement of “principles for child-friendly churches,” captured the imagination of the Central Committee of the WCC on 27 June. The document will now undergo further revision and be resubmitted at the next WCC executive committee meeting.

La discusión sobre el apoyo de las comunidades religiosas a los derechos del niño y la declaración de “principios para las iglesias amigas de la infancia” captó la imaginación del Comité Central del CMI. El documento será revisado y reenviado a la próxima reunión del Comité ejecutivo del CMI.

Forty years after the Soweto uprising, leaders of churches in conflict-torn countries gathered in South Africa to study the ways of peace and reconciliation.

The African continent bears witness to the tragic consequences of the manipulation of religion to incite violence. Yet it is also the home of untold instances of the power of religious leaders and actors to exert a positive influence, said panellists at an international meeting in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, today.

During a solidarity visit to Burundi 1-4 March, the World Council of Churches and the All Africa Conference of Churches sent a “Peace Message” urging all parties in Burundi to promote national unity, healing and reconciliation.

Durante una visita solidaria a Burundi del 1 al 4 de marzo, el CMI y la Conferencia de Iglesias de Toda África enviaron un “Mensaje de paz” en el que instan a todas las partes en Burundi a promover la unidad nacional, la sanación y la reconciliación.

Amidst the current tense situation in Burundi, representatives of the World Council of Churches and the All Africa Conference of Churches have embarked on a solidarity visit to Burundi from 1 to 4 March.

En medio de la tensa situación que se vive actualmente en Burundi, varios representantes del CMI y de la Conferencia de Iglesias de Toda el África han emprendido una visita solidaria a ese país del 1 al 4 de marzo.

“Las mujeres con discapacidades a menudo están excluidas de la sociedad, y dejan de considerarse como personas que han recibido el don de Dios”, dijo la Rev. Micheline K. Kamba en una reciente conferencia.