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A joint international editing group comprised of individuals appointed by the Dicastery for promoting Christian Unity and the Faith and Order Commission of the World Council of Churches met in the Bose Monastery, Italy, 11-15 September, to prepare materials for the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity, 2025.

The World Council of Churches, in partnership with Centro Evangélico de Misiología Andino Amazónica, will host a Consultation on Evangelism in Theological Education and Missiological Formation In Latin America.

The World Council of Churches (WCC) congratulated Danish Bishop Henrik Stubkjær, who was newly elected as the next Lutheran World Federation president. 

In a joint greeting to the Lutheran World Federation Assembly, gathered in Krakow, Poland from 13-19 September, World Council of Churches (WCC) general secretary Rev. Prof. Dr Pillay and WCC moderator Bishop Prof. Dr Heinrich Bedford-Strohm reflected on the assembly’s theme, “One Body, One Spirit, One Hope.”

The new World Council of Churches (WCC) Commission on Faith and Order held its inaugural meeting, where commissioners and the consultants came together to get glimpse of Christian encounter from many church traditions, and mapped out their work ahead together.

In the wake of severe flooding in the Taquari Valley, Brazil, World Council of Churches (WCC) general secretary Rev. Prof. Dr Jerry Pillay expressed sorrow and concern for the people affected.

World Council of Churches (WCC) general secretary Rev. Prof. Dr Jerry Pillay and Rev. Rita Famos, president of the Protestant Church in Switzerland, and member of the WCC central committee, met with Ambassador Simon Geissbühler, head of the Peace and Human Rights Department at the Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs, on 7 September in Bern.

El 28 de agosto, durante una reunión con el embajador Andranik Hovhannisyan, de la Misión Permanente de la República de Armenia ante la Oficina de las Naciones Unidas, el secretario general del Consejo Mundial de Iglesias (CMI), Rev. Prof. Dr. Jerry Pillay, expresó su solidaridad con quienes se esfuerzan por lograr el levantamiento del bloqueo de Nagorno Karabaj abogando por la reapertura del corredor de Lachín.

On 28th August, during a visit with Ambassador Andranik Hovhannisyan, Permanent Mission of the Republic of Armenia to the UN Office, World Council of Churches (WCC) general secretary Rev. Prof. Dr Jerry Pillay expressed solidarity with those making efforts to lift the blockade of Nagorno-Karabakh by reopening the Lachin corridor.

Forty retired World Council of Churches (WCC) staff gathered at the Ecumenical Institute at Bossey on 22 August to celebrate the WCC’s 75th anniversary and to receive greetings and reflections from WCC general secretary Rev. Prof. Dr Jerry Pillay.

Un equipo ecuménico de Burkina Faso auspiciado por la Comunidad de Chemin Neuf se ha encargado de la redacción del borrador básico de la Semana de Oración por la Unidad de los Cristianos 2024. El Consejo Mundial de Iglesias (CMI) y el Vaticano acaban de publicar el material en diversos idiomas.

An ecumenical team from Burkina Faso facilitated by the local Chemin Neuf Community has been the convener for the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity 2024 drafting group. The World Council of Churches (WCC) and the Vatican have now published the material in several languages.

El Consejo Mundial de Iglesias (CMI) está planeando un año de actividades en 2025 para conmemorar el 1700 aniversario del primer Concilio Ecuménico de Nicea, que tuvo lugar en el año 325 y fue un momento clave en la historia de la religión cristiana y para el camino ecuménico actual.

El secretario general del Consejo Mundial de Iglesias, el Rev. Prof. Dr. Jerry Pillay, transmitió sus sinceras condolencias por los incendios forestales que asolan Grecia en cartas pastorales dirigidas a Su Santidad el patriarca Bartolomé, a Su Beatitud Jerónimo II, arzobispo de Atenas y de toda Grecia, y a la Iglesia Evangélica de Grecia.

In pastoral letters to His All-Holiness Patriarch Bartholomew, His Beatitude Hieronymos II, Archbishop of Athens and All Greece, and the Evangelical Church of Greece, World Council of Churches general secretary Rev. Prof. Dr Jerry Pillay conveyed sincere sympathies as wildfires raged across the land.

The World Council of Churches (WCC) will be represented at the International Fellowship of Evangelical Students (IFES) World Assembly on 2-10 August in Jakarta, Indonesia.