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Korea’s Christian leaders have urged Catholics to work together with the WCC to help bring peace and reconciliation to their country. Rev. Dr Sang Chang, president of WCC’s Asia region, and Rev. Dr Lee Hong-jeong, general secretary of the National Council of Churches in Korea (NCCK) were speaking as Pope Francis visited the headquarters of the ecumenical movement in Geneva to mark the WCC’s 70th anniversary.

Pope Francis has praised the ecumenical atmosphere of his visit to Geneva to celebrate the 70th anniversary of the World Council of Churches (WCC), and has said work by churches for peace is a mandate from God in a world threatened by crises.

Papa Francesco ha elogiato l’atmosfera ecumenica della sua visita a Ginevra per celebrare il 70° anniversario del Consiglio ecumenico delle chiese (CEC), e ha affermato che il lavoro delle chiese per la pace è un mandato di Dio in un mondo minacciato da crisi.

Pope Francis and leaders of the World Council of Churches (WCC) exchanged gifts at a simple open-air ceremony in the garden of the WCC’s Ecumenical Institute at Bossey near Geneva, during the pontiff’s one-day visit to Switzerland to celebrate the WCC’s 70th anniversary.

Papa Francesco e i leader del Consiglio ecumenico delle chiese (CEC) si sono scambiati dei doni in una semplice cerimonia all’aperto tenutasi nel giardino dell’Istituto ecumenico di Bossey vicino a Ginevra, durante la visita di un giorno del pontefice in Svizzera per celebrare il 70° anniversario del CEC.

When asked to talk about her story of faith, Rev. Dr Sang Chang doesn’t hesitate for a moment. The president of the Asia region of the World Council of Churches (WCC) is eager to tell how her faith has supported her career as a theologian, academic, advocate for women’s rights, and South Korea’s first female acting prime minister.

A young Samoan Methodist who had a role in the prayer service with Pope Francis during the pontiff’s visit to the World Council of Churches (WCC) in Geneva says it is significant that young people were chosen to read prayers and messages.

Una giovane metodista samoana, che ha partecipato all’incontro di preghiera con Papa Francesco durante la visita del pontefice al Consiglio ecumenico delle chiese (CEC) a Ginevra, ritiene che sia significativo che siano stati scelti i giovani per leggere le preghiere e i messaggi.

Pope Francis joined the general secretary of the World Council of Churches (WCC) and the moderator of its Central Committee at an ecumenical meeting during his landmark 21 June visit to the WCC to celebrate its 70th anniversary at an ecumenical meeting in Geneva.

Papa Francesco ha preso parte con il segretario generale del Consiglio ecumenico delle chiese (CEC) e la moderatrice del Comitato centrale del CEC ad un incontro ecumenico durante la sua storica visita del 21 giugno al CEC per celebrarne il 70° anniversario ad un incontro ecumenico a Ginevra.

Losing his hearing and speaking ability as a young man has not deterred Kenyan Karim Okiki in his wood carving, and a symbolic sculpted cross he presented to Pope Francis on his visit to the World Council of Churches (WCC) in Geneva represents people with disabilities everywhere.
“I would like this cross to speak to Pope Francis and the churches worldwide on the need to embrace persons with disabilities especially the deaf and hard of hearing as part of the church today,” said Okiki.

La perdita dell’udito e del linguaggio non hanno impedito all’artista keniota Karim Okiki di dedicarsi all’intaglio del legno e scolpire una croce simbolica che egli stesso donerà a Sua Santità Papa Francesco durante la sua visita al Consiglio ecumenico delle chiese (CEC) a Ginevra. Questa croce rappresenta le persone con disabilità di tutto il mondo.

The World Council of Churches (WCC) Central Committee, which is meeting 15-21 June, invited its fellowship and all people around the world to celebrate 70 years since the creation of WCC.
“In our anniversary year, we affirm that we will continue to move together on a journey that has its beginning in the call of God to a pilgrim people and its end in the unity of the whole creation,” reads a message from the WCC Central Committee. “We have seen more clearly what unites us.”

The Ecumenical Institute Bossey, which Pope Francis visits on Thursday, 21 June, as part of his pilgrimage to the World Council of Churches in Geneva, is a workshop of ideas, where the future path toward Christian unity is being mapped out.

*Di Philippa Hitchen
L’Istituto ecumenico di Bossey, che Papa Francesco visiterà giovedì 21 giugno, come tappa del suo pellegrinaggio al Consiglio ecumenico delle chiese a Ginevra, è un laboratorio di idee in cui viene tracciato il futuro percorso verso l’unità dei cristiani.

Bishop Brian Farrell has been a key figure on the ecumenical scene since his appointment as secretary of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity in 2002.
Over that time he has attended most of the major events in the life of the WCC, including the last assembly in South Korea and the recent Conference on World Mission and Evangelism in Tanzania.

Il vescovo Brian Farrell è stato una figura fondamentale nella scena ecumenica sin dalla sua nomina come segretario del Pontificio consiglio per la promozione dell’unità dei cristiani nel 2002.
Ha sempre preso parte ai principali eventi del CEC, inclusa l’ultima Assemblea in Corea del Sud e la recente Conferenza mondiale sulla missione e l’evangelizzazione in Tanzania.
In vista della visita papale a Ginevra, il vescovo Farrell riflette sul “cambiamento di ritmo e di stile nella totalità del nostro impegno ecumenico” che è avvenuto sotto Papa Francesco.

Noting “the worsening human rights situation and increasing violence and impunity” in the Philippines, WCC’s central committee has expressed its alarm and outrage, pointing particularly to the role of the government there.

The World Council of Churches (WCC) Central Committee has decided to pursue plans for the WCC 11th Assembly in 2021 in Karlsruhe, Germany.

Despite a signed and ratified peace agreement, the long journey of regional churches and the WCC in support of peace in Colombia is not over, says the WCC central committee, which urges churches, governments, and others to press toward fulfillment of the terms and promises of the agreement, to prevent momentum ceasing and violence resurging.