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As a Global Consultation on the Decade of the Churches in Solidarity with Women opened on 2 October, World Council of Churches (WCC) leaders offered words of encouragement and determination for the future.

Au lancement du colloque mondial sur la Décennie des Églises solidaires des femmes le 2 octobre, les responsables du Conseil œcuménique des Églises ont prononcé des paroles d’encouragement et de détermination pour l’avenir.

Celebrating the 70th anniversary of the World Council of Churches, the board of the Anders-Frostenson Foundation led a sing-along concert at the Ecumenical Centre Chapel on 28 September, offering participants a unique experience full of emotion.

On 21 September, an event unfolded in Liberia to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the WCC. Held in conjunction with other civil society organizations observing the International Day of Peace in Monrovia, people gathered for a ceremony and a parade.

In 1984 a pastor from Uruguay became the first Latin American to be elected as general secretary of the WCC. The late Emilio Castro (1927 - 2013) left an unmatched legacy of passionate ecumenism behind him. His book “Pasion y compromise con el Reino de Dios”, first published in 2007, has now been translated into English and released in an edited version.

At WCC’s ecumenical workcamps in the late 1950s, a young Govaert Chr.Kok of the Netherlands would learn lessons for life – and encounter a very special person.

Sur les chantiers œcuméniques du COE à la fin des années 1950, Govaert Kok, un jeune Néerlandais, a appris de précieuses leçons de vie. Et rencontré quelqu’un de très spécial.

The leadership of the World Council of Churches (WCC) Central Committee met in Geneva on 16-17 September to prepare for the Executive Committee meeting and the joint day on Ecumenical Diakonia with ACT Alliance in Uppsala, Sweden, in November.

L’équipe dirigeante du Comité central du Conseil œcuménique des Églises (COE) s’est réunie à Genève les 16 et 17 septembre en vue de préparer la réunion du Comité exécutif et la journée sur la diaconie œcuménique organisée conjointement avec l’Alliance ACT en novembre à Uppsala, Suède.

World Council of Churches (WCC) general secretary Rev. Dr Olav Fykse Tveit offered a greeting at the General Assembly of the Community of Protestant Churches in Europe, being held this week in Basel, Switzerland.

Le pasteur Olav Fykse Tveit, secrétaire général du Conseil œcuménique des Églises (COE), a envoyé ses salutations à l’Assemblée générale de la Communion d’Églises protestantes en Europe (CEPE), qui se déroule cette semaine à Bâle, en Suisse.

Funeral services are scheduled for Thursday, 13 September, for Loïs Meyhoffer, longtime staff member of the World Council of Churches, who died this week at nearly 100 years. A Geneva native, Meyhoffer joined the fledgling organization’s refugee assistance efforts in 1949 and moved to Germany to oversee its efforts there, returning to Geneva in 1955 and working on staff until her retirement.

A conversation on the way home to Chile from the WCC 4th Assembly planted an ecumenical seed that grew into a wonderful experience of Christian unity – the partnership agreement between the Pentecostal Church of Chile and the United Church of Christ.

Une conversation sur le chemin du retour au Chili après la quatrième Assemblée du COE sema une graine œcuménique qui devint une magnifique expérience de l’unité chrétienne: l’accord de partenariat entre l’Église pentecôtiste du Chili et l’Église unie du Christ.

A trip to Cuba in 2005 with a WCC delegation was undoubtedly a high point of German retired Bishop Rolf Koppe’s ecumenical career.

Le voyage à Cuba en 2005 an sein d’une délégation du COE fut sans nul doute un point d’orgue de la carrière œcuménique de l’évêque allemand à la retraite Rolf Koppe.

Have you ever thought of composing an oratorio about the ecumenical movement and dedicating it to the World Council of Churches?

Avez-vous déjà songé à composer un oratorio à propos du mouvement œcuménique, et à le dédier au Conseil œcuménique des Églises?

The archbishop Dr Nathan Söderblom, an ecumenical forerunner and messenger of peace in war-torn Europe, challenged a deeply divided Christianity 100 years ago. Against all odds, the Stockholm Conference on Life and Work in 1925 gathered church leaders at a scale the world had not seen since Nicaea 1600 years earlier. And it did not end there.

Through an ecumenical Sunday service, Norwegian churches celebrated the 70th anniversary of the World Council of Churches on 26 August.