La communauté fraternelle mondiale, par la voix du secrétaire général du Conseil œcuménique des Églises, le pasteur Jerry Pillay, exprime de vives inquiétudes face à la récente escalade de la violence au Moyen-Orient dans le sillage de la première confrontation directe entre l’Iran et Israël.
World Council of Churches general secretary Rev. Prof. Dr Jerry Pillay, on behalf of the global fellowship, expressed grave concern regarding the recent escalation of violence in the Middle East following the first direct confrontation between Iran and Israel.
On Palm Sunday, accompaniers from the World Council of Churches (WCC) Ecumenical Accompaniment Programme in Palestine and Israel walked in the traditional procession, carrying messages of solidarity with Gaza Christians during an especially painful time.
Le Conseil œcuménique des Églises (COE) a publié de nouveaux supports en ligne dans le cadre de l’Initiative de Pâques 2024: «Sortir des ténèbres — en solidarité pascale avec la Terre Sainte».
The World Council of Churches (WCC) has published online new materials related to the 2024 WCC-EAPPI Easter Initiative: “Out of the darkness – Easter solidarity with the Holy Land.”
Notre série d’entretiens avec les ambassadeurs et ambassadrices des Jeudis en noir met en lumière les femmes et les hommes qui jouent un rôle essentiel dans l’amplification des effets de notre appel collectif à un monde sans viol ni violence. Pasteure de l’Église évangélique luthérienne de Jordanie et de la Terre Sainte, Sally Azar exerce actuellement son ministère dans des paroisses arabophones et anglophones de Jérusalem.
Our series of interviews with Thursdays in Black ambassadors highlights those who are playing a vital role in increasing the impact of our collective call for a world without rape and violence. Rev. Sally Azar is a pastor at the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Jordan and the Holy Land, and currently serves as a pastor in Jerusalem for both Arabic and English-speaking congregations.
The World Council of Churches, in an intervention before the UN Human Rights Council, called upon the UN to ensure that counter-terrorism laws and practices, including efforts to combat terrorism financing, do not unjustly curtail the legitimate activities of civil society organizations, impede civic space, or hinder humanitarian endeavors in the Philippines.
Six ecumenical accompaniers have returned to Palestine and Israel, resuming in-person operations for the World Council of Churches (WCC) Ecumenical Accompaniment Programme in Palestine and Israel. Ecumenical accompaniers, who were evacuated beginning of October 2023, had been continuing their support and accompaniment online.
Ministering to the needs of displaced people, most of them south of Gaza, the Department of Service to Palestinian Refugees of the Middle East Council of Churches has a clear message to the world.
The World Council of Churches (WCC) supports a UN resolution, passed on 12 December 2023, demanding an immediate humanitarian ceasefire in the Gaza Strip.
Sinéad Ní Bhroin, from the EAPPI UK and Ireland team, served as an ecumenical accompanier in Bethlehem from 31 August to 7 October. The World Council of Churches Ecumenical Accompaniment Program in Palestine and Israel, based on an appeal from local church leaders to create an international presence in the country, accompaniesthe local people and communities, offering a protective presenceand witnessing daily struggles and hopes. Below, a reflection on what she witnessed while in the field.
À la suite des affrontements qui ont éclaté le 7 octobre, avec des milliers de roquettes qui auraient été lancées de Gaza sur Israël, une incursion d’hommes armés du Hamas au sud d’Israël et la réaction militaire israélienne qui s’ensuivit, le Conseil œcuménique des Églises (COE) adapte ses activités en Terre sainte pour pérenniser son soutien aux efforts en faveur d’une paix juste.
Following the outbreak of hostilities on 7 October – with a reported launch of thousands of rockets from Gaza into Israel and the infiltration of southern Israel by Hamas gunmen, and an ensuing Israeli military response – the World Council of Churches (WCC) is adapting its work in the Holy Land to continue to support efforts for just peace.
Human rights violations in Israel and Palestine have nearly tripled during the past year, according to reports from the most recent set of ecumenical accompaniers from the World Council of Churches (WCC) Ecumenical Accompaniment Programme in Palestine and Israel.
À l’occasion des commémorations du 75e anniversaire de ce que les Palestinien-ne-s appellent la Nakba, «la catastrophe», le déracinement de centaines de milliers de personnes à la création d’Israël en 1948, le secrétaire général du Conseil œcuménique des Églises (COE), le pasteur Jerry Pillay, a exprimé sa solidarité avec les Églises membres en Terre sainte.
During the 75th commemoration of what Palestinians refer to as the nakba, or “catastrophe”—when hundreds of thousands of people were uprooted during Israel's creation in 1948—World Council of Churches (WCC) general secretary Rev. Prof. Dr Jerry Pillay expressed solidarity with member churches in the Holy Land.
Le Conseil œcuménique des Églises (COE) a publié une feuille d’information sur les démolitions dans Jérusalem-Est servant de source d’informations fiables pour les Églises membres du COE, les accompagnateurs et accompagnatrices œcuméniques et les médias.