Search results

Le 20 janvier dernier, le secrétaire général par intérim du Conseil œcuménique des Églises (COE), le père Ioan Sauca, a évoqué ses réflexions dans le cadre d’une discussion organisée par l’Institut d’études œcuméniques de l’Université Pontificale Saint-Thomas-d’Aquin de Rome, autour du thème « La pandémie, le Conseil œcuménique des Églises, et la santé mondiale ».

Students from the World Council of Churches (WCC) Bossey Ecumenical Institute began an 8-day study visit to Rome on 20 January, with a full programme that includes lectures, a tour of the Vatican, and opportunities to interact with leaders from the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity.

On 20 January, World Council of Churches (WCC) acting general secretary Rev. Prof. Dr Ioan Sauca reflected on “The Pandemic, the World Council of Churches, and Global Health,” as part of a discussion hosted by the Institute for Ecumenical Studies of Angelicum University.

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 best thought is one that always leaves a certain crevice for the possibility that everything is totally different at the same time" - Rev. Martina Viktorie Kopecka, moderator of the World Council of Churches ECHOS Commission, cites this as her favorite quote from Václav Havel, opponent to Czechoslovak’s communist regime and later president of his country.

«La meilleure des pensées est celle qui laissera toujours un interstice à la possibilité que tout soit, dans le même temps, absolument différent.» — Václav Havel
La pasteure Martina Viktorie Kopecka, présidente de la Commission ECHOS du Conseil œcuménique des Églises, a fait de cette phrase sa citation préférée de Václav Havel, un opposant au régime communiste tchécoslovaque qui a ensuite pris la présidence du pays.

Twenty-nine students from the WCC Bossey Ecumenical Institute traveled to Rome for the annual study visit to the Vatican, and to take part in the inauguration of the 2019 Week of Prayer for Christian Unity, which is observed 18-25 January.

Vingt-neuf étudiant-e-s de l’Institut œcuménique de Bossey du COE se sont rendu-e-s à Rome pour leur visite d’études annuelle au Vatican et pour participer au lancement de la Semaine de prière pour l’unité des chrétiens du 18 au 25 janvier.

A delegation from the Evangelical Church in Germany is visiting the WCC on 26-27 October for an ecumenical learning experience that includes prayers with students from the Bossey Ecumenical Institute, an introduction and overview of the work of the WCC, a meeting with the Lutheran World Federation, and a guided tour of the Ecumenical Centre.

Last week, around 500 youth workers and leaders from churches all over Norway gathered outside Oslo for a youth and faith conference to learn and to share knowledge and visions on Christian youth work.

Rev. Martina V. Kopecká of the Czechoslovak Hussite Church represented the World Council of Churches at a Synod of Bishops (XV Ordinary General Assembly) which met in Rome under the theme “Young People, the Faith and Vocational Discernment.”

Rev. Martina V. Kopecká, de l’Église tchécoslovaque hussite représentait le Conseil œcuménique des Églises au Synode des Évêques (XVe Assemblée générale ordinaire) qui s’est réuni à Rome sous le thème « Les jeunes, la foi et le discernement professionnel ».

Each year students from all over the world arrive at Bossey near Geneva for a three-month language training course to pave their way for ecumenical studies that follow on straight after. “The title captures the goal of the course,” says Father Lawrence Iwuamadi, the Nigerian priest who studied at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome and is academic dean of the Ecumenical Institute.

Dr Agnes Abuom, moderator of the World Council of Churches (WCC) Central Committee, offered her reflections on the concept of reformation at a seminar during St Olav’s Festival in July.

As another academic term is coming to an end at the Bossey Ecumenical Institute, 35 international students and faculty have visited the Vatican in Rome, to celebrate the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity, engage in ecumenical dialogue, and to learn more about a variety of churches’ work towards Christian unity.

Georges “Yorgo” Lemopoulos says his discovery of global ecumenism as a theology student in Istanbul, Turkey, transformed his life. The member of the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople credits theology professors who were active in ecumenical work with awakening his interest in the global church movement.