It is often said that “Bad news travels fast.” Indeed, it is hard not to be focused on the difficulties and harsh challenges we are facing in today’s world. In a digital village that we live in, where every piece of news is spread quickly, the worst news takes center stage. “We live in a time of profound crisis”, “The world is as disunited as ever”, “Society is polarized!” are just some of the everyday remarks describing the present condition.
The latest issue of The Ecumenical Review, the quarterly journal of the World Council of Churches (WCC) is titled “A Living Fellowship of Churches” and marks the 75th anniversary of the WCC, which was founded in 1948 at its 1st Assembly in Amsterdam.
"Peace Among the People – Interreligious Action for Peace and Inclusive Communities", keynote address by Peter Prove, director of the Commission of the Churches on International Affairs, World Council of Churches, at the Peace Conference in Jakarta, Indonesia, 21 November 2023.
The World Council of Churches (WCC) executive committee, meeting in Abuja, Nigeria, from 8-14 November, released a statement on COP28’s responsibility for climate justice.
The world needs a “reformation of hope and confidence,” according to the moderator of the central committee of the World Council of Churches (WCC), Bishop Dr Heinrich Bedford-Strohm, giving the Otto Karrer lecture in Lucerne, Switzerland.
As the World Council of Churches (WCC) observes one year since the WCC 11th Assembly in Karlsruhe, Germany, many resources can help the global fellowship, friends, and partners take a reflective look back at a gathering that drew more than 4,500 people, including 659 official delegates from the WCC’s 352 member churches.
On 28th August, during a visit with Ambassador Andranik Hovhannisyan, Permanent Mission of the Republic of Armenia to the UN Office, World Council of Churches (WCC) general secretary Rev. Prof. Dr Jerry Pillay expressed solidarity with those making efforts to lift the blockade of Nagorno-Karabakh by reopening the Lachin corridor.
The World Council of Churches (WCC) is calling on Azerbaijan for the immediate lifting of the blockade of Nagorno-Karabakh, as more than 120,000 people—including 30,000 children—are suffering under an increasingly dire humanitarian crisis.
The World Council of Churches (WCC) is calling on Azerbaijan for the immediate lifting of the blockade of Nagorno-Karabakh, as more than 120,000 people—including 30,000 children—are suffering under an increasingly dire humanitarian crisis.
Iranian rector Ayatollah M. Seyyed Abolhassan Nawab and Ms Zahra Sedigh, from the Iranian Mission to the UN,visited the World Council of Churches (WCC) on 27 July, discussing education and formation, as well as the importance of strengthening the role of interreligious cooperation.
On 27 July 1953 – 70 years ago today – the Korean War Armistice Agreement was signed in Panmunjom by senior representatives of the United Nations Command, and military leaders of North Korea (the Korean People's Army) and China (the Chinese People's Volunteer Army).
“Cargamos la cruz con dignidad y esperanza”. Estas fueron las primeras palabras de los cristianos de Oriente Medio cuando se dirigieron a la reunión del Comité Central del Consejo Mundial de Iglesias para dar testimonio de las cargas y los desafíos –pero también de la resiliencia– con los que viven a diario en la tierra donde nació el cristianismo.
Mit diesen Worten begannen die Christinnen und Christen des Nahen Ostens ihren Bericht über ihre Schwierigkeiten und Herausforderungen, aber auch über ihre Resilienz, die sie täglich im Ursprungsgebiet des Christentums erleben, bei der Zentralausschusstagung des Ökumenischen Rates der Kirchen (ÖRK).
«Nous portons la croix avec dignité et espoir» C’est par ces mots que les chrétien-ne-s du Moyen-Orient ont, lors de la réunion du Comité central du Conseil œcuménique des Églises (COE), ouvert leur témoignage sur les fardeaux et des difficultés – mais aussi la résilience – qu’ils et elles rencontrent au quotidien sur la terre où est né le christianisme.
As members of the World Council of Churches (WCC) central committee and stewards visited the Ecumenical Institute at Bossey, they came away newly inspired about the next generation of the ecumenical movement.
“We carry the cross with dignity and hope.” These were the opening words as Middle East Christians stood to bear witness at the World Council of Churches central committee meeting, to the burdens and challenges – but also the resilience – that they live on a daily basis in the land where Christianity was born.
Le Comité central du Conseil œcuménique des Églises (COE) a conclu sa session d’une semaine à Genève par un appel à se tourner vers Dieu avec adoration, action de grâces et espérance.
Der Zentralausschuss des Ökumenischen Rates der Kirchen (ÖRK) hat seine einwöchige Tagung in Genf mit dem Aufruf beendet, sich in einer Haltung des Anbetens und der Dankbarkeit und in fröhlicher Hoffnung Gott zuzuwenden.
