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Hundreds of young people from South America participate in Thursday in Black

On 11 January, some 430 young people from congregations from Argentina, Paraguay, and Uruguay of the Evangelical Church of the Río de la Plata (IERP) gathered to participate in the “IERPino” youth meeting. They actively observed the Thursdays in Black campaign for a world free from rape and violence.

18 January 2024

CAREF staff

WCC shares warm wishes with Argentine Commission for Refugees and Migrants, celebrating 50 years

The World Council of Churches (WCC) shared joyful greetings on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the foundation of the Argentine Commission for Refugees and Migrants (CAREF).

10 October 2023

A young representative from Latin America pictured at a moment of prayer during the WCC central committee in Geneva, June 2023, Photo: Albin Hillert/WCC

WCC will host consultation on evangelism and formation in Latin America

The World Council of Churches, in partnership with Centro Evangélico de Misiología Andino Amazónica, will host a Consultation on Evangelism in Theological Education and Missiological Formation In Latin America.

20 September 2023

Edgar Avitia

WCC mourns the passing of Edgar Avitia Legarda

The World Council of Churches (WCC) joins the Methodist family and people across the world who are mourning the death of Rev. Edgar Avitia Legarda, a passionate ecumenical bridge builder.

07 July 2023

Plaza de Mayo, Buenos Aires

WCC delivers messages to 3rd World Forum on Human Rights in Argentina

The World Council of Churches (WCC) delivered two video messages to 3rd World Forum on Human Rights in Argentina on 22 March.

22 March 2023

CAREF staff

Migrants in Argentina find listening ears and open hearts

Located in the Flores neighborhood of the City of Buenos Aires, for almost 50 years the Argentine Commission for Refugees and Migrants has carried out committed work in favor of migrants, refugees, and asylum seekers.

04 November 2022

Evangelical Church of the River Plate planting trees

WCC shares greetings with Evangelical Church of the River Plate, Evangelical Church of the Lutheran Confession in Brazil

World Council of Churches acting general secretary Rev. Prof. Dr Ioan Sauca shared greetings with the Evangelical Church of the River Plate in Argentina, Uruguay, and Paraguay; as well as the Evangelical Church of the Lutheran Confession in Brazil. Both churches had gatherings during which they elected leaders and prayed together.

26 October 2022

Malena Lozada

Eco School alumna recalls “very enriching and formative experience”

Malena Lozada, from Argentina, attended the World Council of Churches Eco School in 2018. She has remained engaged in climate talks, and is now a climate scientist pursuing a PhD related to climate change.

21 October 2022

WCC panel at World Social Forum 2022

WCC delegation at the World Social Forum highlights the links between water, food and climate change

At the recently concluded World Social Forum in Mexico City, a delegation from the World Council of Churches (WCC) reflected on ecological justice by addressing the nexus between water, food and climate change.

11 May 2022

Humberto Shikiya

In Argentina, “Serving a Wounded World” is a hopeful call to collaborate

Prof. Dr h.c. Humberto Martin Shikiya, vice president of the Regional Ecumenical Advisory and Service Center (CREAS) In Argentina, reflects on how “Serving a Wounded World in Interreligious Solidarity: A Christian Call to Reflection and Action During COVID-19 and Beyond” is being received as a hopeful call to collaborate ecumenically and interreligiously. The World Council of Churches (WCC) and the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue jointly published “Serving a Wounded World” to encourage churches and Christian organizations to reflect on the importance of interreligious solidarity in a world wounded by the COVID-19 pandemic.

02 August 2021

indigenous ceremony in Brazil

Indigenous peoples and the pandemic in the land of inequalities

476 million indigenous people live around the world, of which 11.5% live in our Latin American region. In these years that we are going from the COVID 19 pandemic in our territories (indigenous or tribal at the Latin American level), the presence of many extractive companies, mainly uranium and lithium, has increased, land traffickers and among other monoculture companies with fires for the cultivation of oil palm, logging, putting vulnerable peoples at greater risk than what is already experienced.

04 June 2021

Dina Ludeña Cebrian

Radio silence- A story where resistance becomes a form of survival

“Radio Silence,” film about journalist Carmen Aristegui, wins Human Rights Award 2020

The film “Radio Silence,” by Juliana Fanjul, has received the Human Rights Award 2020 from the World Association for Christian Communication and SIGNIS, the World Catholic Association for Communication.

The feature-length documentary portrays government-critical journalist and radio host Carmen Arestigui.

25 March 2021

Rev. Fabian Kreischer

WCC mourns sudden passing of Rev. Fabian Kreischer from Argentina

In a letter sent on 11 February, Rev. Prof. Dr Ioan Sauca, World Council of Churches (WCC) interim general secretary, sent condolences to the United Evangelical Lutheran Church for the passing of Rev. Fabián Kreischer on 7 February, in San Miguel, outside Buenos Aires, Argentina.

11 February 2021

Bishop Samuel Aguilar Curi

WCC expresses solidarity with Peruvian people amid political crisis

World Council of Churches (WCC) interim general secretary Rev. Prof. Dr Ioan Sauca expressed solidarity with the Methodist Church of Peru, and all the Peruvian people faced with unprecedented challenges resulting from political crisis, violent upheaval, and corruption in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic.

20 November 2020

Students and faculty gathered at Bossey, September 2020. Photo: Odair Pedroso Mateus/WCC

New student body at Bossey Ecumenical Institute “a source of joy”

Rev. Fr Dr Lawrence Iwuamadi is dean of the Ecumenical Institute, the graduate school which opened its academic year this week. Below, Iwuamadi reflects on the arrival of new students at the Ecumenical Institute during this remarkable time.

14 September 2020

“Canción sin nombre” is a true story of a young pregnant indigenous woman in Peru in the late 1980s at the height of the civil war. Promotional image.

Ecumenical jury recognizes four films at Molodist Festival in Ukraine

The Ecumenical Jury, at the 49th Molodist – International Film Festival in Kyiv, Ukraine, awarded prizes to four films after watching them online. The festival took place from 22-30 August.

31 August 2020

Photo: Marcelo Schneider/WCC, 2018

Latin American churches lead efforts to prevent rising violence against women

As coronavirus cases rise sharply in Latin American countries, so has violence against women.

20 August 2020

Photo: Albin Hillert/WCC, 2019

Outpouring of Easter messages reaches WCC, weaving together threads of hope

Hope, solidarity and a spirit of service are recurring themes in Easter messages received by the World Council of Churches from many of its member churches and partners.

16 April 2020

Rev. Pablo Sosa at the WCC Assembly in Vancouver, in 1983. Photo: WCC

WCC mourns the passing of Rev. Pablo Sosa

“It was with great sadness that we received the news of the passing of Rev. Pablo Sosa, one of the grandfathers of global ecumenical spirituality,” said Rev. Dr Olav Fykse Tveit, general secretary of the WCC. The Argentinian Methodist pastor passed away on 11 January, in Buenos Aires, at the age of 85.

15 January 2020

WCC general secretary Rev. Dr Olav Fykse Tveit hands a cross to Bishop Felipe Ruiz, head of the General Cabinet of the Methodist Church of Mexico. Photo: Marcelo Schneider/WCC

WCC general secretary meets leadership of Methodist Church of Mexico

On 23-24 October, Rev. Dr Olav Fykse Tveit, general secretary of the World Council of Churches (WCC), met the leadership of the Methodist Church of Mexico, as part of an internal process of discernment that might lead to resuming their membership in the WCC, suspended since 1994.

28 October 2019