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World Council of Churches (WCC) general secretary Rev. Prof. Dr Jerry Pillay, on behalf of WCC member churches, said that the WCC cannot reconcile the Decree of the XXV World Russian People's Council describing the conflict in Ukraine as a “Holy War.” 

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.

El Comité Central del Consejo Mundial de Iglesias (CMI) publicó una declaración sobre la situación de los derechos humanos en Filipinas.

El Acuerdo de Armisticio de la guerra, de 70 años de antigüedad, debería ser sustituido por un tratado de paz, instó el Comité Central del Consejo Mundial de Iglesias (CMI) en una declaración pública. “Coincidiendo con un nuevo aumento de las tensiones y los enfrentamientos en la península coreana, recordamos que este año se conmemora el 70º aniversario del Acuerdo de Armisticio de 1953, que estableció un alto el fuego, pero no el fin formal de la guerra de Corea,” declara el texto. “Oramos para que la paz y el diálogo pongan fin a este peligroso ciclo, y por la desnuclearización no solo de la península de Corea, sino de todo el mundo”.

The World Council of Churches (WCC) central committee released a statement on the human rights situation in the Philippines.

La situación de la población de Myanmar –que incluye a más de un millón de personas de etnia rohingya– es cada vez más preocupante, expresó el Comité Central del Consejo Mundial de Iglesias (CMI) en una declaración pública.

The 70-year-old War Armistice Agreement should be replaced with a peace treaty, urged the World Council of Churches (WCC) central committee in a public statement. “In a time of renewed escalation of tensions and confrontation on the Korean Peninsula, we recall that this year marks the 70th anniversary of the 1953 Armistice Agreement which established a ceasefire, but not a formal end, to the Korean War,” reads the text. “We pray for peace and dialogue to end this dangerous cycle, and for denuclearization not only of the Korean Peninsula but of the entire world.”

The situation for people in Myanmar—including more than one million ethnic Rohingyas—is increasingly concerning, as expressed in the World Council of Churches (WCC) central committee minute. 

World Council of Churches central committee moderator Bishop Dr Heinrich Bedford-Strohm delivered a lecture at the Kitzingen deanery, a regional church district near Würzburg, for the parishes of the deanery as well as for the public. The lecture, entitled “Just Peace through Military Force? Peace Ethical Considerations in Light of the War of Aggression against Ukraine,” was offered on 29 April