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A multicultural group of Bossey students

At Week of Focus, Bossey students “feel the spirit of togetherness and solidarity”

From peacebuilding to spiritual life, from children’s rights to planning for the 11th Assembly, the World Council for Churches (WCC) is a busy place, as students from the WCC Bossey Ecumenical Institute learned during a “Week of Focus” offered by WCC staff.

09 November 2021

Feature story

Children during the Sunday service, Tanzania

Groundbreaking global conference opens gates to a Pan-Africanism for all and with all to finally defeat scourge of racism

Over 23-29 October, a Global Conference of Africa and Africans in the Diaspora (AAD) revisited the historical 1945 Manchester Pan-African Conference and critically reviewed progress made since then. Speakers and participants also worked to determine and develop effective global strategies to radically change the lot of Africans and people of African descent globally—and thereby defeat the scourge of racism in the world.

05 November 2021

Blog post

Sacred Imagination and the Vision of a New UN Permanent Forum of People of African Descent

In his 1967 book Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community? Rev. Dr Martin Luther King Jr envisioned a “World House.”

03 September 2021

Angelique Walker-Smith

News

Pan African Women of Faith issue fervent Call to Action

As a result of a consultation on 9-10 November in Washington, D.C., Pan African Women of Faith have released a Call to Action toward a vision of sustainable communities and an end to hunger and poverty.

20 November 2018

News

PAWEEN conference in Washington, D.C., United States, 2016. © Joseph Molieri / Bread for the World

Pan-African women will connect for sustainable development

Women of African descent have made important contributions to the ecumenical movement and to their societies' sustainable development. However, their stories often remain untold and their potential unfilled.

05 July 2017

Event

Paween network breakfast meeting at WCC Central Committee in Trondheim, June 2016. © Marcelo Schneider/WCC

Pan-African Women’s Ecumenical Network

10 - 14 July 2017

The seminar Empowerment of Pan-African Women in the Ecumenical Movement in a Sustainable Development Perspective of the Pan-African Women’s Ecumenical Empowerment Network (PAWEEN) of the Ecumenical Theological Education programme of the WCC, offers an impetus to the invitation of the WCC member churches to join a pilgrimage of justice and peace.

Château de Bossey, Bogis-Bossey, Switzerland

News

Global meeting seeks inspiration from Reformation to transform world

More than 120 people from throughout the world have gathered in the eastern German city of Halle to reflect on how insights from the Protestant Reformation 500 years ago can contribute to transforming the world today.

19 May 2016

News

January 2005

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20 December 2004