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Las parroquias anglicanas de las diócesis unidas de Dublín y Glendalough, en la República de Irlanda, están buscando nuevas sendas y proyectos para 2016 tras examinar los resultados de una encuesta que les ha permitido determinar aquello que han hecho bien y los asuntos que preocupan a los laicos.

During World Interfaith Harmony Week, officials of the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue and WCC Interreligious Dialogue and Cooperation staff met in Geneva for their annual meeting.

La reunión anual entre el Pontificio Consejo para el Diálogo Interreligioso (PCDI) y la Oficina para el Diálogo y la Cooperación Interreligiosos del Consejo Mundial de Iglesias (CMI) tuvo lugar el 3 y 4 de febrero de 2016 en Ginebra (Suiza), durante la Semana Mundial de la Armonía Interconfesional.

A delegation from the Presbyterian Church in Taiwan, led by general secretary Rev. Lyim Hong-Tiong, was welcomed in Geneva by the WCC general secretary. Discussions focused on the situation of Christians and especially the situation for indigenous people in Taiwan.

The WCC Ecumenical Water Network is inviting member churches and supporters to reflect on water during Lent. For many in the world, water is either taken for granted or in desperately short supply.

La Red Ecuménica del Agua del CMI invita a sus iglesias miembros y a sus colaboradores a reflexionar sobre el agua durante la Cuaresma. Para muchas personas del mundo el agua es algo que se da por sentado o algo extremadamente escaso.

A WCC member church in Kenya has consecrated its second woman bishop, Rev. Alice Muthoni Mutuma, on 31 January in Meru. Rev. Pauline Wanjiru Njiru, East Africa regional coordinator for the WCC Ecumenical HIV and AIDS Initiatives and Advocacy, attended the service and brought greetings from WCC.

To promote open discussions on the theological and practical discourse, narrative and experiences on implications for the work of the multi-religious organizations on religion, violence and extremism, the WCC, along with the General Board of Church and Society of The United Methodist Church and the General Conference of Seventh-Day Adventists held a Symposium on the Role of Religion and Faith-Based Organizations in International Affairs.

A small diaspora congregation of the Malankara Mar Thoma Syrian Church observed the Joint Ecumenical Sunday of the Communion of Churches in India (CCI) in Geneva on 24 January.

WCC general secretary Rev. Dr Olav Fykse Tveit commended the release of the Marrakesh Declaration on the Rights of Religious Minorities in Predominantly Muslim Majority Communities.

El Secretario General del CMI, el Rev. Dr. Olav Fykse Tveit, encomió la publicación de la Declaración de Marrakech sobre los derechos de la minorías religiosas en las comunidades de mayoría musulmana.

Ecumenical cooperation among Christian traditions is “an indispensable path to evangelization,” according to the 2013 apostolic exhortation from Pope Francis titled Evangelii Gaudium, or “the joy of the gospel.” The latest issue of the journal International Review of Mission analyses the encyclical’s teaching in light of two other documents on mission agreed by the Commission on World Mission and Evangelism and the Lausanne Committee for World Evangelization.

The latest issue of Current Dialogue explores the phenomenon of “multiple religious belonging,” in which people participate or identify with the practices and beliefs of more than one religious tradition.

An ecumenical worship service on 21 January at St. James Cathedral in Riga, held during the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity 2016, was vivid confirmation of the ecumenical efforts of Christians in Latvia.

The #SyriaCrisis has raged for five brutal years and another round of talks involving the world’s powerful nations and those involved in the conflict to push for peace could be starting to finally end the warring.

In addition to ecumenical prayer and celebration – with the participation of Lutheran, Roman Catholic, Orthodox, Armenian Apostolic, Baptist, Adventist, Pentecostal, Methodist churches, and sometimes even representatives of the Old Believers’ community – Christian unity in Latvia usually takes the form of practical cooperation.

Además de manifestarse en el culto ecuménico –que cuenta con la participación de iglesias luteranas, católicas romanas, ortodoxas, apostólicas armenias, bautistas, adventistas, pentecostales y metodistas, y algunas veces incluso con representantes de la comunidad de viejos creyentes–, la unidad cristiana en Letonia generalmente se materializa en la cooperación práctica, que incluye conferencias teológicas conjuntas, cooperación en la educación teológica o la preparación del programa de educación religiosa ecuménica para las escuelas públicas.

The Churches’ Commission for Migrants in Europe and the WCC have published a revised and updated edition of their joint study, Mapping Migration: Mapping Churches’ Responses in Europe. The 2016 text explores challenges and changes in the European church landscape in light of international migration.

Churches in Europe have a crucial role to play in responding to the arrival of refugees in Europe, Germany's interior minister has told a gathering in Geneva of governments, United Nations agencies, church and faith groups and civil society organizations.

El ministro alemán del Interior dijo que las iglesias en Europa tienen un papel decisivo en la respuesta a la llegada de refugiados al continente europeo. El Dr. Thomas de Maizière pronunció estas palabras en una reunión de gobiernos, organismos de las Naciones Unidas, iglesias, grupos religiosos y organizaciones de la sociedad civil celebrada en Ginebra el 18 y 19 de enero.