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Churches and Christian communities worldwide are invited to use the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity 2025 resources which are now available online in English, German, French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, and Arabic.

The Ecumenical Institute at Bossey in collaboration with Faith and Order will host an international hybrid conference themed “Nicaea and its meaning for today” from 4-8 November. 

The Mar Thoma Syrian Church of Malabar and Old-Catholic Church in Switzerland convened at the Ecumenical Institute at Bossey on 3 October. The group also paid a visit to the new offices of the World Council of Churches (WCC) in Geneva.

Representatives from the Orthodox Church and Oriental Orthodox Churches met at the Logos Papal Center, situated in the Monastery of Saint Bishoy, Wadi El Natrun, Egypt, on 16-17 September.

His All-Holiness the Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew has noted that Easter celebration in 2025 “will not merely be a fortuitous occurrence, but rather the beginning of a unified date for its observance by both Eastern and Western Christianity.”

The first plenary of the 11th mandate of the Joint Working Group between the World Council of Churches (WCC) and the Roman Catholic Church convened at the Ecumenical Institute at Bossey from 3–5 September.

The World Council of Churches (WCC) joined ecumenical partners for an online meeting titled “Assisi Reunion and Next Steps of Feast of Creation.” The event brought together faith leaders to discuss ongoing initiatives and plans for promoting the Feast of Creation, highlighting the critical role of faith communities in environmental stewardship and climate justice.

A team from the World Council of Churches (WCC) visited Egypt at the invitation of the Coptic Orthodox Church to plan for the 2025 World Conference on Faith and Order to take place at the Logos Papal Center at Wadi El Natrun, near Alexandria. 

The World Council of Churches (WCC) welcomed its first visitor,  as part of the WCC Visitors programme,  in the new WCC headquarters—Dr Sigurdur Hafthorsson, theological secretary and ecumenical officer from the Church of Sweden. 

As the World Council of Churches (WCC) executive committee closed its meeting in Bogota, Colombia, on 11 June, the governing body and its hosts in Colombia came away with historic moments of dialogue that advanced the Pilgrimage of Justice, Reconciliation, and Unity in unprecedented ways.