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With the annual olive harvest season in the Holy Land soon to draw to a close, the WCC convenes a webinar on the topic ’Uprooting Identities or Planting Just Peace?’ on 2 December.

Auf einem Symposium am 23. August an der Protestantischen Theologischen Universität Amsterdam äußerten sich Führungspersonen des Ökumenischen Rates der Kirchen (ÖRK) zum Thema „Gastfreundschaft: Auf einem Pilgerweg der Gerechtigkeit und des Friedens“.

World Council of Churches leaders spoke on the theme “Hospitality: On a Pilgrim’s Way of Justice and Peace" at a symposium on 23 August at the Protestant Theological University Amsterdam.

Reconciliation was once primarily seen as a message of the church but is now used by secular leaders trying to establish peace in communities torn by conflict and war, the WCC president for Africa, the Rev. Mary Anne Plaatjies van Huffel, has said at a major Protestant gathering in Germany.

The 54th meeting of the WCC Commission of the Churches on International Affairs (CCIA) began today in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, marking its yearly regional focus on Africa. During the meeting CCIA members are discussing the commission’s previous work and its outcomes focusing on Middle East, as well as setting strategic directions for activities until 2021.

Wasser ist Leben, sagt man oft. Aber Wasser ist auch ein Geschenk, und es ist ein Recht, das alle Menschen in Anspruch nehmen können müssen, betont Agnes Abuom.

Water is often presented as life. But it is also a gift and a right which must be available to all, says Agnes Abuom.

While news headlines continue to document tragedies on land and sea as desperate people flee violence and abject poverty in their homelands, representatives of governments, UN agencies and civil society organizations, including churches and faith-based organizations, met 18-19 January at a high-level conference on the refugee and migrant crisis in Europe, hosted by the World Council of Churches (WCC) in Geneva, Switzerland.

Um ihre Solidarität mit den Kirchen und Menschen vor Ort auszudrücken, hat die Leitung des ÖRK-Zentralausschusses vom 7. bis 12. März Israel und Palästina besucht.

To express solidarity with churches and people in Israel and Palestine, the leadership of the WCC Central Committee has undertaken a visit to Israel and Palestine from 7 to 12 March.

In einer Erklärung vom 25. November hat der ÖRK-Exekutivausschuss dringend dazu aufgerufen, die Flüchtlinge und Vertriebenen aus dem Nahen Osten und insbesondere aus Ländern wie Syrien, dem Irak und Israel/Palästina zu schützen und zu unterstützen.

A statement issued by the WCC Executive Committee on 25 November has made strong recommendations urging all countries to take special measures to protect and support refugees and displaced people from the Middle East, especially those from countries like Syria, Iraq and Israel-Palestine.

The “pilgrimage is both a way to continue working for the one ecumenical movement and a way to move forward in our times that offer new dimensions, opportunities and practices,” said the WCC general secretary Rev. Dr Olav Fykse Tveit.

Der Zentralausschuss des ÖRK, das höchste Leitungsgremium der Organisation, hat vom Thema „Pilgerweg der Gerechtigkeit und des Friedens“ inspiriert die Ausrichtung der Arbeit des ÖRK von 2014 bis 2017 festgelegt.

Inspired by the theme “pilgrimage of justice and peace”, the Central Committee of the WCC, a chief governing body of the Council, has set directions for the work of the Council from 2014 to 2017.