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Prayer service for peace in Armenia, St Pierre Cathedral

10 November 2024

The World Council of Churches (WCC) is inviting all people of good will to join a prayer day for Armenia on 10 November, the day before the opening of the COP29 climate talks in Azerbaijan.  The WCC will organize a local prayer service in St Pierre Cathedral, Geneva on 10 November at 5pm CET in collaboration with the Armenian community.

St Pierre Cathedral, Geneva, Switzerland

WCC advocates for creation care and justice at start of triple COP journey

The World Council of Churches (WCC) begins its journey at the triple COPs—starting with the biodiversity COP16 in Colombia—by promoting a holistic approach to environmental stewardship. Rooted in faith and guided by creation care, the WCC calls for integrated policies that address the interconnected challenges of biodiversity loss, climate change, and land degradation while amplifying the voices of Indigenous peoples and vulnerable communities.

WCC diakonia group charts the path forward on eco-diakonia and decolonization

The Ecumenical Diakonia Reference Group, established by the World Council of Churches (WCC), held its inaugural meeting in Yerevan, Armenia, from 30 September to 2 October. The group, cochaired by Rev. Pauliina Parhiala (Finnish Evangelical Lutheran Mission) and Rebecca Teiko Sabah (Presbyterian Church of Ghana), focused on topics such as climate justice, decolonization, and diaconal collaboration. 

WCC calls for urgent climate justice at African conference

Reflecting on the theme “The welfare of the Earth is our welfare”, director of the World Council of Churches (WCC) Commission on Climate Justice and Sustainable Development Athena Peralta delivered a strong call to action at the All Africa Conference of Churches event on climate justice.

Bishop Mikael Mogren shares world perspective—and deep local ties—from visit to Armenia

Rt. Rev. Dr Bishop Mikael Mogren, from the Diocese of Västerås in the Church of Sweden (Lutheran), recently returned from a trip to Armenia, where he met with H.H. Catholicos Karekin II, Supreme Patriarch and Catholicos of All Armenians, as well as local church leaders and nongovernmental organizations. He took time to reflect on what has stayed on his mind and in his heart as he returned to Sweden. 

WCC calls for international response to the needs of Nagorno-Karabakh refugees

Armenian people and churches urgently need a generous international response to the humanitarian needs of the refugees who fled from Nagorno-Karabakh, especially vulnerable women, children, the elderly, and people with disabilities, and those without any other means of support,” the World Council of Churches (WCC) executive committee stated during its meeting in Abuja, Nigeria.