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The World Council of Churches (WCC) executive committee, in a statement, expressed deep concern over ongoing and widespread Israeli attacks on civilian populations and infrastructure in occupied Gaza, the West Bank, and Lebanon, spilling over into neighbouring Syria and beyond. 

In a statement, the World Council of Churches (WCC) Executive Committee denounced the continued fighting in Sudan, and urged solidarity and assistance to the people and churches.

The World Council of Churches (WCC) Executive Committee, meeting in Cyprus, an island that is still suffering from the consequences of unresolved conflict, expressed in a statement deep concern over the scars of division, dispossession, and displacement that remain unhealed.

The World Council of Churches (WCC) Executive Committee, in a statement entitled “Yearning for Just Peace in Europe,” recalled with heavy hearts that the war in Ukraine has now passed 1,000 days. “Each of those days has been marked by the blood of so many civilians as well as combatants killed and maimed, the traumatic displacement of communities, and the destruction of homes, livelihoods, and civilian infrastructure,” the statement reads. “We reaffirm our Christian calling and desire for peace, and for the justice without which peace is unsustainable.”

The World Evangelical Alliance, in collaboration with the World Council of Churches (WCC), Christian Solidarity International, and a coalition of global organizations, has issued a joint statement urging international attention on Azerbaijan's actions in Nagorno-Karabakh as COP29 begins in Baku. 

Churches and people across the world are invited to pray for the people of Armenia on 10 November. 

H.H. Catholicos Karekin II, Supreme Patriarch and Catholicos of All Armenians, asked for people to join the prayer for Armenian hostages on 10 November.

World Council of Churches (WCC) general secretary Rev. Prof. Dr Jerry Pillay condemned the recent attack in Sudan’s Al-Jazira state by the Rapid Support Forces which tragically resulted in the deaths of 124 civilians and left many others injured. 

World Council of Churches (WCC) general secretary Rev. Prof. Dr Jerry Pillay condemned the escalating violence in the Middle East, including Israel's recent airstrikes on Iran and its ongoing military operations in Gaza and Lebanon. 

A delegation from the KAICIID Dialogue Centre – based in Lisbon – visited the World Council of Churches (WCC) on 22 October to explore areas of common interest and possible cooperation, with a particular focus on issues in the European region.

An extension of the ceasefire between the Colombian government and the FARC-EP was announced on 15 October, a milestone occurring one year since the Peace Dialogue Table—of which the World Council of Churches (WCC) is a permanent accompanier—was established. 

World Council of Churches (WCC) general secretary Rev. Prof. Dr Jerry Pillay expressed deep concern over developments on the Korean Peninsula, and escalating tensions and conflict risk in the region.

The fate of Armenian detainees in Azerbaijan was focus of the side event at the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva on 1 October, featuring leading advocates and human rights lawyers representing the detainees.

World Council of Churches (WCC) general secretary Rev. Prof. Dr Jerry Pillay expressed profound concern over escalating violence in Lebanon and Gaza, and reaffirmed the WCC’s commitment to justice, peace, and the dignity of all peoples.