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In a 15 September letter to Swedish foreign affairs minister Margot Wallström, WCC general secretary Rev. Dr Olav Fykse Tveit expressed strong support for religious leaders in Sweden who have requested that Sweden take part in the next step towards entry-into-force for the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, which opens for signature on 20 September at the United Nations.

A Swedish WCC working group which met in Stockholm on 4 September has called on Swedish churches to use ‘The Gift of Being: Called to be a Church of All and for All’ as a resource for including persons with disabilities in church life.

Gathering at World Water Week in Stockholm, Sweden on 30 August, representatives from a range of faith communities and organizations engaged in water issues held a session exploring how faith communities can help achieve the sixth Sustainable Development Goal, ensuring availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all.

Réunis le 30 août à Stockholm, en Suède, pour la Semaine mondiale de l’eau, des représentantes et représentants de plusieurs communautés et organisations religieuses travaillant dans le domaine de l’eau ont organisé une session pour étudier comment les communautés de foi pouvaient contribuer au sixième objectif de développement durable (ODD): garantir l’accès de tous à l’eau et à l’assainissement et assurer une gestion durable des ressources en eau.

Organized as part of World Water Week in Stockholm, Sweden, the WCC invites faith-based organizations, congregations as individuals to a 30 August public event entitled “Water and Faith: Building partnerships to achieve the SDGs”. The event is an open session, organized by the WCC in collaboration with Church of Sweden, Global Water Partnership, Stockholm International Water Institute, and Swedish Institute Alexandria.

Around 60 participants from Christian churches all over the world gathered in Beit Sahour for peace consultations two weeks ago.

At the Sami Church Days in Sweden, a festival held 14-16 June, World Council of Churches general secretary Rev. Dr Olav Fykse Tveit described how indigenous people lead the world in caring for creation.

WCC President for Europe Archbishop Emeritus Anders Wejryd has reminded South African church leaders of the importance of the nation’s constitution, speaking at a time of political uncertainty in the country.

The WCC general secretary, Rev. Dr Olav Fykse Tveit, denounced the terror attack in Stockholm, Sweden, on 7 April and mourned the loss of life, extending prayers for the victims and their families and friends.

Le secrétaire général du COE, le pasteur Olav Fykse Tveit, a dénoncé l'attaque terroriste perpétrée le 7 avril à Stockholm, en Suède, et a pleuré les pertes humaines, assurant de sa prière les victimes et leurs familles et amis.

As Pope Francis marks the fourth anniversary of his election, the latest issue of The Ecumenical Review, the quarterly journal of the WCC, opens with an article discussing the ecumenical gestures that have marked his pontificate, one of the most striking being his presence at the joint Catholic–Lutheran Reformation commemoration in Lund in 2016.

The newly released Fifth Anniversary Women’s Global Prayer Guide, published by the Lott Carey Global Christian Missional Community, features 31 days of prayer for women’s empowerment from contributors around the world.

ACT Alliance and the WCC jointly announced today that they will hold two strategic governance meetings, back to back, in Uppsala, Sweden in the fall of 2018. The ACT Alliance General Assembly will be held at the end of October, bringing together over 200 people from its membership around the world at its quadrennial meeting. The WCC’s Executive Committee and members of ACT’s General Assembly will then meet together on 1 November for a joint day of learning and work around the concept of ecumenical diaconia and sustainable development, followed by the WCC Executive Committee’s regular meeting.

L’Alliance ACT et le Conseil œcuménique des Églises (COE) ont annoncé aujourd’hui conjointement leur intention d’organiser deux rencontres consécutives sur la stratégie de gouvernance à Uppsala, en Suède, à l’automne 2018. L’Assemblée générale d’ACT Alliance aura lieu fin octobre et rassemblera plus de 200 personnes représentant les membres de l’organisation dans le monde entier. Cette réunion a lieu tous les quatre ans. Le Comité exécutif du COE et les membres de l’Assemblée générale d’ACT se retrouveront ensuite le 1er novembre pour une journée commune d’étude et de travail autour de la notion de diaconie œcuménique et de développement durable, qui sera suivie par la réunion normale du Comité exécutif du COE.

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.

Roman Catholics and Lutherans, in committing to forging ahead as pilgrims together, are significantly contributing to the wider ecumenical movement, acknowledged the WCC executive committee last week at its meeting in China.

Par leur engagement à aller ensemble de l’avant, en pèlerins, les catholiques romains et les luthériens apportent une contribution significative au mouvement œcuménique au sens large, a reconnu le Comité exécutif du COE lors de sa réunion en Chine.

Germany’s main Protestant and Roman Catholic churches have published a “Common Word” for the 500th anniversary of the Reformation in 2017 in which they call for a “healing of memories” of past divisions and for the event to be commemorated in ecumenical fellowship.

How can religion and faith communities contribute to achieving the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals? Setting out to address this very question, a panel of faith representatives gathered at World Water Week in Stockholm on 29 August, introduced by keynote speaker Cardinal Peter Turkson, president of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace at the Vatican. The panel was also welcomed by Rt. Rev. Thomas Söderberg, Church of Sweden.

Comment la religion et les communautés de croyants peuvent-elles contribuer à la réalisation des objectifs de développement durable fixés par l’ONU? C’est avec cette question en tête qu’un comité d’experts constitué de représentants et représentantes de différentes religions s’est réuni à l’occasion de la Semaine mondiale de l’eau à Stockholm le 29 août, avec une intervention notable du cardinal Peter Turkson, président du Conseil pontifical «justice et paix» au Vatican. Le comité d’experts a par ailleurs été accueilli par l’évêque Thomas Söderberg, de l’Église de Suède.