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Peter Prove, director of the World Council of Churches Commission of the Churches on International Affairs, spoke on a nuclear weapons-free world during “The Audacity of Peace” gathering in Berlin.

As a search continued for missing migrants after a fishing boat capsized off the coast of Greece, the World Council of Churches (WCC) conveyed prayers to the families of victims, and to the churches in Greece and elsewhere that are responding.

Les participants à une conférence tenue à Wuppertal, en Allemagne, et en ligne, du 9 au 12 avril, ont publié un message appelant les Églises du monde entier non seulement à écouter plus attentivement les victimes de violations des droits humains, mais aussi à se montrer davantage solidaires envers elles.

A conference held in Wuppertal, Germany, and online on 9-12 April published a message calling on churches across the world to not only listen more closely to the victims of human rights violations, but to act in stronger solidarity with them.

En rassemblant des perspectives bibliques, théologiques et pratiques sur la dignité humaine, les protagonistes de la conférence internationale de Wuppertal ont lancé aux Églises le défi de parvenir à une vision et une protection communes des droits humains, lors de la séance publique de débat du 11 avril.

Bringing together biblical, theological and practical perspectives on human dignity, participants of the international conference in Wuppertal challenged churches for a common understanding and protection of human rights during the public panel discussion on 11 April.

Addressing the challenges for a common vision of churches on human rights today, the international conference “Christian Perspectives on Human Dignity and Human Rights” will take place on 9-12 April in Wuppertal, Germany. Everyone is invited to follow the public session of the conference on 11 April, when a panel of the keynote speakers will bring together biblical, theological and practical perspectives on human dignity.

La conférence internationale intitulée «Perspectives chrétiennes sur la dignité humaine et les droits humains», qui se tiendra du 9 au 12 avril à Wuppertal, en Allemagne, abordera les défis d’une vision commune des Églises sur les droits de la personne aujourd’hui. Tout le monde est invité à suivre la séance publique du 11 avril, durant laquelle plusieurs orateurs et oratrices de premier plan évoqueront la dignité humaine d’un point de vue biblique, théologique et pratique.

At the annual Karlsruhe Foyer Church and Law reception on 15 June, German bishops gathered with judges of the Federal Constitutional Court and Federal Court of Justice, as well as representatives of the Federal Prosecutor's Office and of the legal profession in Germany, to hear some reflections on “Ecumenical engagement for human rights, and current challenges.”

The need for urgent ecumenical responses to the dangerously escalating tensions on the Korean peninsula was the focus of a meeting of the Ecumenical Forum for Peace, Reunification and Development Cooperation on the Korean Peninsula (EFK) held in Leipzig, Germany on 7-8 July.

The experience of his father’s fleeing Nazi Germany in 1938 and then living alien and stateless in Sweden provides biblical theologian Hans Ucko with the touchstone of his writing about stateless persons.

The Central Committee of the World Council of Churches (WCC), at its meeting in Trondheim, Norway, 27 June 2016, has elected a new executive committee with 11 new members.

Lors de sa session à Trondheim (Norvège), le Comité central du COE a élu un nouveau Comité exécutif comprenant 11 nouveaux membres.

“The way we handle the refugee crisis, not least the settling in and integration process, will be of utmost significance, both for the attitude towards refugees and asylum seekers in the future, and for the long-term stability and sustainability of our own societies”, said Knut Vollebaek, ambassador and former Norwegian foreign minister, in his speech at the recent WCC/UN conference on Europe’s refugee crisis.

«Ces temps-ci, les pays d’Europe sont confrontés à des milliers de réfugiés qui ont fui la Syrie et d’autres pays déchirés par la guerre pour aller vers des lieux dont, en général, ils ne savent pas grand-chose. Recevoir des foules aussi importantes crée d’énormes difficultés. La manière dont nous gérons la crise des réfugiés, et tout particulièrement le processus d’installation et d’intégration, seront de la plus grande importance, tant pour ce qui est de l’attitude envers les réfugiés et les demandeurs d’asile à l’avenir que pour la stabilité et la viabilité à long terme de nos propres sociétés», a déclaré Knut Vollebaek, ambassadeur et ancien ministre norvégien des Affaires étrangères dans son discours à la conférence du COE et de l’ONU sur la crise des réfugiés en Europe qui s’est tenue à Genève les 18 et 19 janvier.

Reflections from the International Conference on Peace and Reunification on the Korean Peninsula in Arnoldshain, Germany

In the wake of recent crisis with the refugees in Europe, it is “absolutely and critically necessary that all European states take their proper responsibility in terms of reception and support for people seeking refuge, safety and a better future for themselves and their families. This cannot be left only to the states where they enter first,” says the WCC general secretary.

Church leaders from seven countries currently making historic choices for or against outlawing nuclear weapons will embark on a pilgrimage in early August to the two Japanese cities that were decimated by atomic bombs 70 years ago.