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The World Council of Churches (WCC), a global fellowship of 352 churches representing more than half a billion Christians from around the world, has been deeply involved in the work of the United Nations from as early as 1946 through its Commission of the Churches on International Affairs (CCIA). The WCC is a platform for common action by churches on issues that negate or threaten the dignity of all people. 

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).

Address by Marianne Ejdersten, communication director of the WCC at the side-event of the 52^nd session of the UN Human Rights Council, launching the report on the impact of sanctions on humanitarian work.

Statement of the National Council of Churches in Korea, 3 January 2023.

Greetings message by Rev. Hong-Jung Lee, general secretary of the National Council of Churches in Korea, at the Ecumenical Peace Conversation in South Korea.

Address of the Federal president of Germany Frank-Walter Steinmeier at the WCC 11th Assembly in Karlsruhe.

Address by Peter Prove, director of the WCC's Commission of the Churches on International Affairs at the WCC-NCCK Consultation on peacebuilding on the Korean Peninsula, Seoul, 23 November 2021.

By the WCC Executive Committee, November 2021.

Order of prayer for the livestreamed public prayer service on  the final day of the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity 2021.

Restore your creation, Lord...

In the Ecumenical Prayer Cycle, we pray this week with the people and churches of China, Hong Kong, and Macau.

Prayers were prepared in cooperation with the Lutheran World Federation.

God, your tender voice of love reaches all who sit in deepest gloom...

In the Ecumenical Prayer Cycle, we pray this week with the people and churches of China, Hong Kong, and Macau.

Prayers were prepared in cooperation with the Lutheran World Federation.

Guided by the light of Christ, let us pray for the coming dawn of joy, healing and comfort for all God’s people...

In the Ecumenical Prayer Cycle, we pray this week with the people and churches of China, Hong Kong, and Macau.

Prayers were prepared in cooperation with the Lutheran World Federation.

Enlighten us with your grace..

In the Ecumenical Prayer Cycle, we pray this week with the people and churches of China, Hong Kong, and Macau.

Prayers were prepared in cooperation with the Lutheran World Federation.

In the Ecumenical Prayer Cycle, we pray this week with the people and churches of China, Hong Kong, and Macau.

Prayers were prepared in cooperation with the Lutheran World Federation.

Tribulation” is certainly an appropriate description for the previously unimaginable scale of the COVID-19 pandemic. It has affected almost everyone around the world, whether through the direct impacts on our health or the health of our loved ones, the sudden restrictions on all our movements, or the fear of the virus arriving in our lives.

A Declaration for the People’s Korea Peace Agreement was launched on 23 July 2020 at a global Zoom convention initiated by the National Council of Churches in Korea, along with civil organizations.

Dr Agnes Abuom - "Trends and Developments during the past six months of 2020
and their Impact on Church Life and Communities"

The fifth reflection of the Seven Weeks for Water 2020 is by Dinesh Suna, coordinator of Ecumenical Water Network, World Council of Churches. He is a Lutheran and comes from India. In the following reflection, he explores the importance of “hand-washing” in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic while this basic facility is not available to millions of people, particularly to children. He dedicates this reflection to World Water Day which is being observed on 22 March with the theme “Water and Climate Change.”