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Applications are open for the Ecumenical Institute at Bossey’s 2024 interfaith summer course, during which students earn a Certificate of Advanced Studies in Interreligious Studies.

Beyond the inflicted traumata and loss of lives it gave many schools a thrust towards online education which otherwise would not have been able to continue. The time had come to reflect together on the pedagogical challenges of the changed situation for theological education.

On 20 January, World Council of Churches (WCC) acting general secretary Rev. Prof. Dr Ioan Sauca will serve as a panelist for “Ecumenism in a Time of Pandemic: From Crisis to Opportunity.”

The Ecumenical Institute at Bossey is inviting applications for a renewed version of the 10-week online course entitled “Together Towards Unity. Being Church in a Fragmented World” in 2022. Application deadline is 15 February.

The WCC Ecumenical Institute at Bossey sets out to broaden its repertoire of courses in Ecumenical Studies to include a course now offered fully online.

In five episodes held on the third Thursday of each month beginning in November, the webinars will explore the following themes: “Answering the Ancestral Call of Legacy and Leadership,” “The Healing in Our Lament,” “Hope: Unity Within Diversity,” “The Celebration in Transformation,” and “Resurrection: The Diakonia at Work in the World Today.”

From 2-4 June 2021, the World Council of Churches Ecumenical Institute at Bossey hosts an international conference on ‘Teaching Ecumenism in the Context of World Christianity’.

For the Ecumenical Study program at the Ecumenical Institute, which starts every year in September, the deadline for application for the academic year 2020/21 is 30 November 2019.

El 30 de noviembre de 2019 cierra el plazo de inscripción al programa de Estudios Ecuménicos en el Instituto Ecuménico, para el curso 2020/2021.

The EEF Commission has an advisory function to the Central Committee of the WCC regarding the WCC’s programme area on Ecumenical Education and Formation (EEF) through the programme committee of the WCC.

Held at the Ecumenical Institute Bossey, the consultation on "Green Reformation: Eco-Theology, Education and the Future of the Church" takes place from 12 to 15 May 2019.

This seminar will take place in 5-15 August 2019 in Bossey, profiting from the spirit of Bossey and the experience of the Ecumenical Institute and the proximity of WCC, YMCA and YWCA offices in Geneva.

The United Church of Canada, in partnership with the WCC Commission of the Churches on International Affairs, is presenting a webinar on anti-Black racism and Afrophobia. This webinar is part of the church’s participation in the UN International Decade for People of African Descent.

La Iglesia Unida del Canadá, en colaboración con la Comisión de las Iglesias para Asuntos Internacionales del Consejo Mundial de Iglesias, organiza un seminario web sobre el racismo contra los negros y la afrofobia. Este seminario web se inscribe en el marco de la participación de las iglesias en el Decenio Internacional de los Afrodescendientes de la ONU.

In the context of the 70th anniversary of the World Council of Churches, the Pilgrimage of Justice and Peace and the 2030 sustainable development agenda, an international consultation will commemorate the 20th anniversary of the WCC’s Decade of the Churches in Solidarity with Women (1988-1998). The consultation will reflect on the achievements and challenges in building a just community of women and men and to strengthen ecumenical collaboration in reading the signs of our times in order to map the future direction of our work.

En el marco del 70° aniversario del CMI, la peregrinación de justicia y paz y la Agenda 2030 para el Desarrollo Sostenible, una consulta internacional conmemorará el 20o aniversario del Decenio Ecuménico de Solidaridad de las Iglesias con las Mujeres (1988-1998). La consulta reflexionará sobre los logros y los desafíos a la hora de construir una comunidad justa de mujeres y hombres, y tratará de fortalecer la colaboración ecuménica para leer los signos de los tiempos y definir la futura orientación de nuestra labor.

During a 23 August service in the Netherlands in the Nieuwe Kerk, a 15th-century church in Amsterdam, World Council of Churches leaders will celebrate the WCC’s 70th anniversary at the very spot in which the organization was founded.  A “Walk of Peace” through Amsterdam, and a symposium under the theme “Hospitality on a pilgrim's way to peace and justice”, at the Vrije Universiteit, will also be held on the same day.

El 23 de agosto, durante un servicio de conmemoración en la Nieuwe Kerk, una iglesia del siglo XV de Ámsterdam (Países Bajos), los dirigentes del Consejo Mundial de Iglesias celebrarán el 70º aniversario del CMI exactamente en el mismo lugar donde se fundó la organización. Una marcha por la paz en Ámsterdam y un simposio bajo el tema “Hospitalidad en un camino de peregrinación hacia la paz y la justicia” en la Universidad de Vrije tendrán lugar ese mismo día.

The goal of this seminar is to share experiences how young people are working for just and sustainable communities and bring their voices to the table of the discussion on ecumenical diakonia and sustainable development.

YATRA (Youth in Asia Training for Religious Amity) is an inter-religious training programme of the WCC. The intensive training course, held annually since 2014, seeks to enable young Christian leaders from Asian churches to contribute towards the building up of just, harmonious and peaceable communities by equipping them for ministries of justice and peace from an inter-religious perspective.