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While Bishop Sofie Petersen can talk convincingly about the science behind climate change, she'd rather talk about what's happening to the people in her home region of Greenland.

Justice and peace are not possible without the involvement and participation of women. To accomplish this vision the United Nations Security Council resolution (UNSCR) 1325 can be an important negotiation tool for religious women's on-going work for conflict resolution and peace-building around the world.

A film about the imposition of a totalitarian form of Islam on a village in Mali has won the prize of the Ecumenical Jury at the Cannes Film Festival in France. Timbuktu, directed by Abderrahmane Sissako, a filmmaker from Mauritania, tells the story of how local people resist the arrival of extremists who want to restrict women's liberty and to outlaw music and football.

The WCC general secretary has extended “warmest congratulations” to Rev. Christopher Ferguson on his election and installation as the new general secretary of the World Communion of Reformed Churches.

People have the right of access to archives of public bodies, argued Trudy Huskamp Peterson, an archivist from the United States, in her recent talk organized by the WCC Archives in Geneva, Switzerland. She said public access to information is particularly relevant for archives documenting human rights violations.

A workshop on “human rights and nuclear disasters” hosted by the WCC and led by lawyers and doctors from France, Japan, Canada, Belarus and Switzerland will be held on Friday, 28 February at the Ecumenical Centre, Grand Saconnex, Geneva.

Un atelier sur le thème «droits de la personne et catastrophes nucléaires», organisé sous les auspices du COE et animé par des juristes et des médecins provenant de France, du Japon, du Canada, de Biélorussie et de Suisse, se tiendra le vendredi 28 février au Centre œcuménique de Genève, au Grand-Saconnex.

The Week of Prayer for Christian Unity has been globally celebrated this year with prayers, reflections, ecumenical services and events focusing on Paul’s question in Corinthians 1 “Has Christ been divided?” a theme for this year’s prayer materials, prepared by the Canadian churches.

À quelques jours de la conférence dite de «Genève 2», qui doit se tenir le 22 janvier, une déclaration d'Églises du monde entier appelant à la fin du conflit armé en Syrie a été remise à Lakhdar Brahimi, représentant spécial conjoint des Nations Unies et de la Ligue des États arabes pour la Syrie, par le pasteur Olav Fykse Tveit, secrétaire général du COE, le 20 janvier à Genève.

The 10th Assembly of the World Council of Churches elected eight new presidents today during a closed session at its proceedings in Busan, Republic of Korea.

The WCC and the Armenian Apostolic Church are hosting a one-month exhibition on the Armenian genocide, displaying information on the history of genocidal events in the Ottoman Empire which killed more than a million Christian Armenians between 1915 and 1923.