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"Light of Peace" book now available in Korean

The National Council of Churches in Korea has published a Korean translation of The Light of Peace: Churches in Solidarity with the Korean Peninsula, a book the World Council of Churches (WCC) fellowship is using to recognize 70 years of unresolved conflict on the Korean Peninsula.

Latest issue of International Review of Mission addresses health as well as wider issues

The new issue of International Review of Mission includes a variety of articles, ranging from post-colonialism to public theology, and from mission models to Pope Francis’s apostolic exhortation. Two of the articles are specifically concerned with healing, which is a pertinent theme at this current period of the coronavirus. These two articles clearly indicate that the biblical concept of health consists as it does of the welfare, health, and prosperity of the individual person as well as of communities as a whole. Individuals are always part of the communities they belong to.

Stephen Brown: comment se raccrocher à l’esprit de vérité dans le tourbillon des informations numériques?

Stephen Brown est le rédacteur en chef de The Ecumenical Review. Le dernier numéro, intitulé «L’esprit de vérité à l’ère du numérique» analyse comment notre perception de la réalité dépend de plus en plus de la manière dont les écosystèmes de la communication et de l’information sont structurés et réglementés face à l’évolution des technologies.

Dr Beate Jakob: "We are one body."

The World Council of Churches (WCC) has newly released an online publication, "Health and Hope: The Church in Mission and Unity," a collection of previously published articles that resonate with the worldwide struggle amid the COVID-19 pandemic. In conjunction with this resource, WCC communication is sharing personal perspectives from faith-based health experts across the world. Dr Beate Jakob is a consultant for health and healing with the German Institute for Medical Mission.

Dr Beate Jakob: « Nous sommes un seul corps »

Le Conseil œcuménique des Églises (COE) a récemment publié un document en ligne, « Health and Hope: The Church in Mission and Unity » (Santé et espoir : l’Église dans la mission et l’unité), une collection d’articles publiés précédemment qui font écho à la lutte mondiale contre la pandémie de COVID-19. Parallèlement à ce document, le service de la communication du COE diffuse les perspectives personnelles, en lien avec leur foi, d’experts de la santé du monde entier. La doctoresse Beate Jakob est consultante santé et guérison de l’Institut allemand de la mission médicale.

Ecumenical Review focuses on “Global Manifestations of Racism Today”

The latest issue of The Ecumenical Review, the quarterly journal of the World Council of Churches (WCC), focuses on “Global Manifestations of Racism Today,” with a set of articles that originated at a theological symposium organized in Japan in 2019 as part of the WCC’s Pilgrimage of Justice and Peace.

WCC condemns attack at Hanukkah celebration in New York City

The World Council of Churches (WCC) condemned an attack on a Hanukkah celebration at a rabbi´s home north of New York City, on 28 December, stabbing and wounding five people. Several state and local officials have described the location of stabbing as a synagogue.