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The churches of Sudan – and especially the Sudan Council of Churches as their ecumenical forum – have suffered from a serious lack of attention and support by international ecumenical partners since the separation of South Sudan in 2011.

To accompany the churches and people of Sudan in the midst of significant changes and challenges in the country, a delegation of World Council of Churches (WCC) along with its ecumenical partners is undertaking an ecumenical solidarity visit to Sudan.

Leaders of the ecumenical movement in Africa, religious leaders, Christians, and people of good will are mourning Arthur Ndengerio Shoo, a long-serving ecumenical leader, who died on 26 February.

An online memorial service for Rev. Prof. Dr Mary-Anne Plaatjies-van Huffel drew family members, friends, colleagues and students who mourned the passing of the World Council of Churches (WCC) president for Africa. Plaatjies van Huffel, known as a transformative church leader in sub-Saharan Africa, passed away on 19 May.

Familiares, amigos, colegas y estudiantes de la Rev. Prof. Dra. Mary-Anne Plaatjies-van Huffel participaron en un servicio conmemorativo virtual en su honor en el que lamentaron el fallecimiento de la presidenta del Consejo Mundial de Iglesias (CMI) para África. Plaatjies van Huffel, conocida como una líder eclesial transformadora en el África subsahariana, falleció el 19 de mayo.

With great sadness, the World Council of Churches (WCC) received news of the demise of Prof. Vuyani Vellem on 4 December. A member of the WCC’s Commission on Ecumenical Education and Formation, Vellem was director of the Centre for Public Theology and associate professor at the University of Pretoria, South Africa. He also served as deputy secretary of the South Africa Council of Churches.

WCC moderator Dr Agnes Abuom was awarded the Plaque of Saint Eric by Church of Sweden primate Archbishop Antje Jackelén on 3 November.

La Dra. Agnes Abuom, moderadora del Consejo Mundial de Iglesias (CMI), recibió la placa de San Eric de manos de la primada de la Iglesia de Suecia, la arzobispa Antje Jackelén, el 3 de noviembre.

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.

Los dirigentes del Consejo Mundial de Iglesias (CMI) hablaron sobre el tema “Hospitalidad: en un camino de peregrinación hacia la justicia y la paz” en un simposio el 23 de agosto, en la Universidad Teológica Protestante de Ámsterdam.

“Where is God?” Evoking the desperate cry of a South Sudanese girl stranded in a refugee camp far from home, WCC moderator Dr Agnes Abuom opened the Central Committee’s biennial meeting on 15 June with a stirring yet clear-eyed cry for deeper engagement by the WCC and its member churches to counter the world’s most intractable problems through nurturing hope and empowerment.

“¿Dónde está Dios?”
La moderadora del CMI, la Dra. Agnes Abuom, inauguró la reunión bienal del Comité Central, el 15 de junio, con una petición conmovedora pero firme –evocando las desesperadas súplicas de una niña sudanesa perdida en un campo de refugiados– con la que instó al CMI y a sus iglesias miembros a comprometerse más en la lucha contra los problemas más espinosos del mundo, alimentando la esperanza y el empoderamiento.

Rev. Dr Konrad Raiser has been on an ecumenical journey for most of his adult life, which spans 80 years. The former WCC general secretary relates some of this pilgrimage in his newest publication, “The Challenge of Transformation: An Ecumenical Journey.” On 5 February, shortly after Raiser’s birthday, ecumenical experts from different generations, confessions and continents met in Geneva to discuss the newest publication by the man who led the WCC from 1993 to 2003.

El Rev. Dr. Konrad Raiser, de 80 años, ha recorrido un camino ecuménico durante la mayor parte de su vida adulta. El ex secretario general del CMI relata una parte de esta peregrinación en su publicación más reciente, “The Challenge of Transformation: An Ecumenical Journey”. El 5 de febrero, poco después del cumpleaños de Raiser, expertos ecuménicos de diferentes generaciones, confesiones y continentes se reunieron en Ginebra para hablar de la nueva publicación.

Dk. Agnes Abuom, kutoka katika kanisa la Angalikana nchini Kenya, ni msimamizi wa kamati kuu ya Baraza la Makanisa Duniani (WCC). Yeye pia ndiye aliyeandika utangulizi katika kitabu kitakachotumika katika Mkutano wa WCC kuhusu Umisheni na Uinjilisti Duniani (CWME). Maelezo hapa chini, yanamuonesha Dk. Abuom akiwa katika mahojiano yanayogusia mambo mbali mbali kuhusu umuhimu wa kihistoria na maudhui ya mkutano huu wa CWME, ambao utafanyika Arusha, Tanzania mwezi Machi, tarehe 8-13.

La Dra. Agnes Abuom, de la Iglesia Anglicana de Kenia, es la moderadora del Comité Central del Consejo Mundial de Iglesias (CMI). También es la autora del prefacio que acompaña a los documentos de referencia de la Conferencia sobre Misión Mundial y Evangelización del CMI, que se celebrará del 8 al 13 de marzo en Arusha (Tanzania). A continuación, reproducimos una entrevista concedida por la Dra. Abuom sobre el significado histórico y el tema de la conferencia.

It’s 70 years since the World Council of Churches was founded in Amsterdam on 23 August. In addition to a commemoration service in Amsterdam on 23 August, the WCC, its member churches and partners are planning a variety of events to move forward on our ongoing Pilgrimage of Justice and Peace, and at the same time honour and learn from these 70 years of ecumenical endeavour. Dr Abuom, from the Anglican Church of Kenya, is the moderator of the WCC Central Committee. She is the first woman and the first African in the position in WCC’s history. In an interview, she reflects on the evolution of the WCC in the past 70 years.