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The World Council of Churches (WCC) executive committee visited the Sultan of Sokoto, Muhammadu Sa’adu Abubakar III in Abuja, Nigeria. As Sultan of Sokoto, he is considered the spiritual leader of Nigeria's 100 million Muslims.

Les dirigeants d’Église du Canada, de Terre sainte et d’Afrique du Sud se sont exprimés sur le sujet de la réconciliation lors du Comité central du Conseil œcuménique des Églises (COE) à Genève. Ils ont expliqué que le processus mobilisant les communautés n’est pas simple et qu’il demande un travail et des responsabilités importants.

Church leaders from Canada, the Holy Land, and South Africa have addressed the central committee of the World Council of Churches (WCC) in Geneva on reconciliation, explaining that the process involving communities is not easy and needs hard work and responsibility.

Agnes Abuom, meneuse œcuménique très appréciée et inlassable défenseuse de la paix, est décédée à l’âge de 73 ans au Kenya des suites d’une courte maladie.

Beloved ecumenical leader and indefatigable peacemaker Dr Agnes Abuom has died at the age of 73 in her native Kenya, following a short illness.

Le Comité exécutif du Conseil œcuménique des Églises (COE), dans une déclaration publique, appelle à cesser de manière permanente les hostilités au Soudan, dont la population fait face à une catastrophe humanitaire après des semaines d’intenses combats entre l’armée soudanaise et les Forces de soutien rapide paramilitaires.

The World Council of Churches (WCC) executive committee, in a public statement, urged a permanent cessation of hostilities in Sudan, where people are facing a humanitarian catastrophe following weeks of intense fighting between the Sudanese Army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces.

The worsening global food crisis is the focus of a World Council of Churches (WCC) executive committee statement that urges churches and the international community to act now before more lives are lost.

Declaring that “there is no justification in either faith or science for the racism, xenophobia and discrimination that we are witnessing in the world,” the leadership of the World Council of Churches (WCC) central committee adopted a public statement that condemns these social forces.

The statement was prepared by the Public Issues Committee at the WCC 11th Assembly in Karlsruhe, Germany.

From 31 August to 8 September, thousands of Christians converged on the German city of Karlsruhe for the 11th Assembly of the World Council of Churches, the first in Europe since Uppsala in 1968.