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“We all miss community. But young people miss community a bit more. Our vibrant social lives before the pandemic were replaced by a reality of countless days alone at home.”

Maria Sonnleithner was reflecting on young people whose mental health has been at risk amid COVID-19, even as the strain on the caring adults and churches in their lives has grown exponentially as well.

After 157 people perished when an Ethiopian Airlines plane crashed on 10 March soon after taking off near Addis Ababa, the World Council of Churches expressed deep sympathy and extended prayers for those who lost loved ones.

Tras el fallecimiento de 157 personas al estrellarse un avión de Ethiopian Airlines el 10 de marzo cerca de Addis Abeba poco después de despegar, el Consejo Mundial de Iglesias (CMI) expresó su profundo pesar y ofreció sus oraciones a quienes perdieron seres queridos.

As an observance of the centenary of the end of World War I, the board of the European peace church network Church and Peace publicly called for active remembrance through nonviolence, pointing to the Gospel as a basis for this call.

In a lecture that opened a summer course offered by the foundation Pro Oriente in Vienna, Austria, on 9 July, World Council of Churches general secretary Rev. Dr Olav Fykse Tveit commemorated the WCC’s 70-year history and described its ongoing Pilgrimage of Justice and Peace.

En la conferencia que inauguraba el 9 de julio el curso de verano ofrecido por la fundación Pro Oriente en Viena (Austria), el secretario general del Consejo Mundial de Iglesias, Rev. Dr. Olav Fykse Tveit, conmemoró los setenta años de la historia del CMI y describió su actual peregrinación de justicia y paz.

Unity among religious leaders is growing and it is a powerful message of hope in the Arab region, Christian, Jewish and Muslim leaders have heard at a Vienna conference on peaceful coexistence and diversity, whilst advocating the necessity of even more dialogue.

La unidad entre los líderes religiosos se está fortaleciendo y es un poderoso mensaje de esperanza para la región árabe que ha llegado a los líderes cristianos, judíos y musulmanes presentes en una conferencia sobre la coexistencia pacífica y la diversidad que ha tenido lugar en Viena, aunque se ha destacado la necesidad de más diálogo.

An “Interreligious Dialogue for Peace, Promoting Peaceful Coexistence & Common Citizenship” in Vienna on 26 February is creating a first-ever joint action plan for Arab religious leaders to lead the way in repairing the divisions created by extremists, and rebuilding social cohesion and common citizenship in the Arab region.

El “Diálogo Interreligioso por la Paz, la Promoción de la Coexistencia Pacífica y la Ciudadanía Común” celebrado en Viena el 26 de febrero pone en marcha el primer plan de acción conjunto para que los dirigentes religiosos árabes muestren el camino para reparar las divisiones creadas por los extremistas y reconstruir la cohesión social y la ciudadanía común en la región árabe.

As an “ecumenical accompanier,” Prokop’s role description might include: “walks children to school,” and “shares what he sees.” In many communities, these tasks are daily - even mundane - parts of life. But for Prokop, who has served with the World Council of Churches Ecumenical Accompaniment Programme in Palestine and Israel (WCC-EAPPI), walking children to school was anything but humdrum.

ICAN campaigners in Oslo for the Nobel Peace Prize award were busy the day before planning for what comes next. ”Tomorrow we will have to be silent so let’s make a lot of noise today,” a facilitator told some 150 activists and supporters of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons.

Los promotores de ICAN que se encontraban en Oslo para la concesión del Premio Nobel de la Paz estuvieron ocupados el día anterior planificando los próximos pasos de la campaña. "Mañana tendremos que permanecer en silencio, así que hagamos mucho ruido hoy”, dijo un facilitador dirigiéndose a unos 150 activistas y colaboradores de la Campaña Internacional para Abolir las Armas Nucleares.

“I cannot forget the poignant memories of the march when thousands of refugees set out from Budapest, Hungary, towards Austria, and finally reached the other side of the border aboard buses provided by the Hungarian government,” said Bishop Tamas Fabiny of the Lutheran Church in Hungary, vice-president of the Lutheran World Federation.

“No puedo olvidar los conmovedores momentos que presencié en la marcha en la que miles de refugiados abandonaron Budapest (Hungría) con destino a Austria, para finalmente llegar al otro lado de la frontera a bordo de autobuses proporcionados por el gobierno húngaro”, dijo el obispo Tamás Fabiny, de la Iglesia Luterana de Hungría, vicepresidente de la Federación Luterana Mundial. El obispo Fabiny habló con los miembros de una delegación del Consejo Mundial de Iglesias (CMI) que visitó Budapest.

Volunteers for the WCC Ecumenical Accompaniment Programme in Palestine and Israel have urged the European Union to take more effective actions against the illegal settlements, demolitions and forced displacement in the occupied territory controlled by the Israeli authorities.

More than 400 representatives of German ecumenical groups attending an assembly in Mainz, Germany have affirmed their commitment to move forward in a “pilgrimage of justice and peace” – a call from the WCC 10th Assembly.

Nine volunteers with the WCC's Ecumenical Accompaniment Programme in Palestine and Israel have met with European Union officials, urging them to honour recently issued guidelines on grants and loans to Israeli settlements.

Conflicts over water threaten peace in the world, the general secretary of the World Council of Churches (WCC), the Rev. Dr Olav Fykse Tveit, told a gathering in Germany on the banks of the River Danube to mark the end of the WCC’s Decade to Overcome Violence (DOV).