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During an ecumenical morning prayer held 15 May, the World Council of Churches (WCC) staff and partners observed the UN International Day of Living Together in Peace, holding in prayer many nations across the world facing challenges to living together in harmony.

On the International Day of Living Together in Peace declared by the United Nations, members of the World Council of Churches (WCC) fellowship from countries troubled by war and conflict gathered to pray for sustainable peace in the world.

Damaris, a Nigerian woman, described her experience of 2020: “We’ve gone through hell.”

Damaris and her sisters were kidnapped in March 2020 and threatened with death as their kidnappers demanded money. Her father had to sell everything and beg on the streets to meet their demands. “We are just a common people in Nigeria,” she said. “We don’t know what we did.”

A webinar hosted by the World Council of Churches (WCC) on 26 November will explore “Conflict Zones and Covid-19: A call to compassion.” Speakers from Cameroon, Nigeria, South Sudan, Lebanon, Belarus and Colombia will offer their insights on how conflict exacerbates the conditions for contracting and treating COVID-19 among civilians caught in the crossfire, especially women.

Providing migrants and refugees a platform to share their concerns, challenges, and aspirations not only helps them, but also addresses xenophobia and helps build bridges with host communities, participants at a recent conference found.

The legacy of sexual slavery before, during and after the brutal Korean War weighs heavily on the shoulders of the thousands of Korean women who lived for decades under a brutal militarized patriarchy.

As the 4th Ecumenical School on Governance, Economics and Management for an Economy of Life concluded on 30 August in Bogor, Indonesia, participants representing 15 countries and coming from diverse contexts reflected on the two-week, “eye-opening” experience.

Los participantes de la 4ª Escuela Ecuménica de Gobernanza, Economía y Gestión para una Economía de la Vida celebrada en Bogor (Indonesia), que representaban a 15 países y procedían de contextos diversos, reflexionaron sobre esta experiencia “reveladora” de dos semanas, tras concluir esta el pasado 30 de agosto.

A Jerusalem Post report of 20 February 2019 by Hagay Hacohen titled: “World Council of Churches exposed as biased, anti-Israeli group” is inaccurate and riddled with false innuendo.

De Wereldraad van Kerken heeft een open brief aan de media gepubliceerd. Dat gebeurde in reactie op een nieuw rapport van NGO Monitor, waarin kritiek wordt geuit op het Oecumenische Begeleidingsprogramma in Palestina en Israël (Ecumenical Accompaniment Programme in Palestine and Israel, EAPPI).

The WCC published an open letter to media in response to the new report released by the NGO Monitor criticizing the Ecumenical Accompaniment Programme in Palestine and Israel.

El CMI ha publicado una carta abierta para los medios de comunicación en respuesta al reciente informe publicado por la ONG Monitor que critica el Programa Ecuménico de Acompañamiento en Palestina e Israel.

Speaking in Bethlehem on the evening of 8 December, World Council of Churches general secretary Rev. Dr Olav Fykse Tveit reflected on the light from the very first Christmas in the very same town, and what that light means in a global search for just peace.

En el discurso que pronunciara en Belén en el atardecer del 8 de diciembre, el Rev. Dr. Olav Fykse Tveit, secretario general del Consejo Mundial de Iglesias, reflexionó sobre la luz de la primerísima Navidad en esa mismísima ciudad y su significado en la búsqueda mundial de la paz justa.

On 17-23 November, the Executive Committee of the WCC met for the first time ever in China. The visit was hosted by the China Christian Council and the Three-Self Patriotic Movement. The Three-Self Patriotic Movement is a Protestant church in the People's Republic of China, as well as one of the largest Protestant bodies in the world.

Del 17 al 23 de noviembre, el Comité Ejecutivo del CMI se reunió por primera vez en China. La visita fue organizada por el Consejo Cristiano de China y el Movimiento Patriótico de las Tres Autonomías. El Movimiento Patriótico de las Tres Autonomías es una iglesia protestante de la República Popular China, además de uno de los organismos protestantes más grandes del mundo.

Hope in a Pilgrimage of Justice and Peace formed the integral thread for proceedings at the meeting of the Central Committee of the WCC in Trondheim, Norway this week. The 2016 meeting took place 22-28 June, the second gathering since the Central Committee was elected at the WCC 10th Assembly in Busan, Republic of Korea in 2013.

La esperanza en la peregrinación de justicia y paz fue el hilo conductor de los procedimientos de la reunión del Comité Central del CMI celebrada en Trondheim (Noruega).

Forty years after the Soweto uprising, leaders of churches in conflict-torn countries gathered in South Africa to study the ways of peace and reconciliation.