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Registrations are open for a World Council of Churches webinar on 19 January that will launch the first volume of a major new history of ecumenism produced by a team of academics and scholars coordinated by the Italian-based Foundation for Religious Studies (FSCIRE).

Une compilation des articles les plus lus parmi ceux publiés par le Conseil œcuménique des Églises (COE) révèle une communauté mondiale axée sur un avenir meilleur, malgré les graves difficultés auxquels le monde a été confronté en 2021.

A compilation of the most-read stories published by the World Council of Churches (WCC) reveals a global fellowship focused on a better future even amid the grave challenges the world faced during 2021.

The World Council of Churches (WCC) released a new publication, “Let the Waves Roar: Perspectives of young prophetic voices in the ecumenical movement.”

A new book, “The Africa We Pray For: On a Pilgrimage of Justice and Peace,” which highlights the voices of young people, will be co-released by the World Council of Churches (WCC) and Globethics.net on 10th December, Human Rights Day.

The World Council of Churches (WCC) invites a webinar on ’Racism, Land and Food’ to explore the intersections of food, land, and racial injustices, and discern ways to overcome the impact of racial injustice and inequity on food sovereignty.

At an event called “Ecumenical Continuing Formation: Youth, Transformative Masculinity 

and Femininity,” young people from the Pacific gathered from 15-19 November, both online and in-person, to express their honest feelings about the issues most important to them.

 

Looking toward the 2022 assembly of the World Council of Churches (WCC) that will gather around the theme “Christ’s love moves the world to reconciliation and unity,” the latest issue of the WCC journal International Review of Mission focuses on the relationship between mission and unity.

«Dies Academicus» est un rassemblement annuel particulier qui se tient à l’Institut œcuménique de Bossey du Conseil œcuménique des Églises (COE). L’édition de cette année académique a eu lieu le 4 novembre dernier. Le groupe de 33 étudiant-e-s venu-e-s de 20 pays différents a écouté quatre orateurs venus partager leurs réflexions sur le thème «Le racisme est-il une question de foi?». Les orateurs ont réaffirmé la déclaration de la 4^e Assemblée du COE à Uppsala qui a qualifié le racisme de péché.

“Dies Academicus,” is a special annual gathering at the World Council of Churches (WCC) Bossey Ecumenical institute. This academic year’s installment took place on 4 November. The current cohort of  33 students from 20 countries listened to a panel of four speakers who shared reflections  on the theme, “Is racism a faith question?” The panel reaffirmed the WCC 4th Assembly held in Uppsala, which declared racism as sin.

Taking its cue from a lecture by former World Council of Churches (WCC) general secretary Philip Potter, the October issue of the WCC quarterly The Ecumenical Review explores the meaning of the “oikoumene,” which in Greek refers to the whole inhabited earth and gives “ecumenism” its name.

As part of an ongoing campaign on youth and patriotism, the All Africa Conference of Churches has convened a pre-congress meeting in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi, to prepare for a continental youth assembly later next year.

Absorbing Philip Potter’s profoundly simple direction for the ecumenical movement—“only connect”—those gathered for an online tribute to the former World Council of Churches (WCC) general secretary tapped into the still-growing legacy of a remarkable man.

En absorbant l’orientation profondément simple de Philip Potter pour le mouvement œcuménique – « only connect » (« il suffit de se connecter ») - les personnes réunies pour un hommage en ligne à l’ancien secrétaire général du Conseil œcuménique des Églises (COE) ont puisé dans l’héritage toujours grandissant d’un homme remarquable.