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WCC answers your questions about vaccines

On World Immunization Week, the World Council of Churches is joining UNICEF and other organizations across the world in encouraging vaccinations for global health. Below, Dr Mwai Makoka, WCC programme executive for Health and Healing, answers often-asked questions about vaccines. He provides some history of vaccines, reflections on the role of faith-based groups, and why children and others are so vulnerable if they don’t receive vaccines.

26 April 2021

News

Workshop charts future directions for mission thinking in next generation

Eighteen participants representing 16 World Council of Churches (WCC) member churches and ecumenical mission partners from 14 countries engaged in a missional formation workshop on 15-16 April in collaboration with the WCC Bossey Ecumenical Institute.

The workshop, designed to facilitate the contribution of young leadership, was coordinated by the WCC Commission on World Mission and Evangelism under the theme “Young Leadership in Mission.”

22 April 2021

News

USA religious leaders call for end to anti-Asian violence: ""We are frankly tired, fatigued, and exhausted”

In the wake of rising anti-Asian violence and hate speech in the USA, religious leaders and ecumenical coalitions in the nation are calling for an end to the violence—and the xenophobia and discrimination that undergird it.

30 March 2021

News

Prayer service in March 2020 as the first Covid-19 cases were identified in Bethlehem, Evangelical Lutheran christmas church, Photo: Albin Hillert/WCC

Reshaping mission and the church during COVID-19

In a recent meeting, the World Council of Churches Commission on World Mission and Evangelism discussed how COVID-19 has reshaped mission and the church.

11 March 2021

Event

4th International Faith-Based Investment Conference

Walk the Talk: Asia-focus 4th International Faith-based Conference

05 March 2021

Following up on several successful conferences, this Asia-focused online event aims to “walk the talk” on faith-driven investing, exploring issues and sharing experiences of successful and challenging investment projects, strengthening impactful cooperation between faith partners and investors, and presenting tools to make projects investable. The event is co-hosted event by the World Council of Churches, Geneva Agape Foundation, FaithInvest, and the World Evangelical Alliance’s Business Coalition.

Feature story

People gathered at Saint Peter’s Cathedral in February 2021.

The ecumenical spirit at Calvin’s Cathedral

Few moments in the early history of the World Council of Churches have embodied and conveyed the spirit of the modern ecumenical movement as vividly as the service celebrated at Saint Peter’s Cathedral, Geneva, 20 February 1946, less than one year after the end of World War II.

24 February 2021

News

Webinar draws insights into Faith and Order papers “Cultivate and Care,” “Love and Witness”

Two papers—“Cultivate and Care: An Ecumenical Theology of Justice for and within Creation” and “Love and Witness: Proclaiming the Peace of the Lord Jesus Christ in a Religiously Plural World,” from the World Council of Churches Faith and Order Commission were highlighted during a webinar on 18 February.

23 February 2021

Document

Liturgical text

Global ecumenical prayer for Christian Unity

14 December 2020

Ecumenical movement

Interview

With children more vulnerable to violence than ever, WCC moderator reflects on the vital role of churches

In an ongoing call to churches across the globe to work together to prevent gender-based violence, particularly against women, children and young people, World Council of Churches moderator Dr Agnes Abuom reflects below on some of the reasons such violence has increased, and the vital role churches can play in creating safe spaces for those most at risk.

26 November 2020

News

Rev. Dr Fidon Mwombeki, general secretary of the All Africa Conference of Churches. Photo: Albin Hillert/LWF, 2019

African ecumenical body releases a policy brief, as public debt and corruption rise

Amid growing concerns over runaway corruption and public debt in Africa, the All Africa Conference of Churches on 21 September launched a policy brief on the challenges, saying the two were now inseparable in the continent.

25 September 2020

News

Students and faculty gathered at Bossey, September 2020. Photo: Odair Pedroso Mateus/WCC

New student body at Bossey Ecumenical Institute “a source of joy”

Rev. Fr Dr Lawrence Iwuamadi is dean of the Ecumenical Institute, the graduate school which opened its academic year this week. Below, Iwuamadi reflects on the arrival of new students at the Ecumenical Institute during this remarkable time.

14 September 2020

News

Globethics releases “Globalance: Ethics Handbook for a Balanced World Post-Covid”

Globethics.net has launched a new book, “Globalance: Ethics Handbook for a Balanced World Post-Covid” by Prof. Christoph Stückelberger, Globethics.net president and founder.

03 September 2020

Document

Study document

Spread Only the Contagion of Love, Bible study by Jennifer Philpot-Nissen

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.

29 July 2020

WCC Programmes

Document

Message

A Declaration for the People’s Korea Peace Agreement

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.

29 July 2020

Member church

Document

Report

Moderator's address - WCC executive committee, 20-24 July 2020

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

23 July 2020

Moderator of Central Committee