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Letter

WCC letter to President Biden on forthcoming visit to Israel and the West Bank

08 July 2022

General Secretary

Feature story

"Ban plan” outlines what the world needs to do to eliminate nuclear weapons

A “ban plan” outlining what the world needs to do to eliminate nuclear weapons is the “strongest condemnation of nuclear threats by a multilateral UN conference,” said Jennifer Philpot-Nissen, programme executive for Human Rights and Disarmament for the WCC Commission of the Churches on International Affairs.

30 June 2022

Statement: public statement

WCC Central Committee Statement on the Imperative for Effective Response to the Climate Emergency

Statement on the Imperative for Effective Response to the Climate Emergency by the WCC Central Committee meeting, 15-18 June 2022.

18 June 2022

Central Committee

A WCC pilgrim team visit to Italy was facilitated by the Churches’ Commission for Migrants in Europe (CCME) and hosted by the Federation of Protestant Churches in Italy (FCEI).The group visited church-related initiatives to support refugees and migrants in Palermo, Lampedusa and Rome. At the Methodist temple in Rome, the WCC delegation had the opportunity to visit the exhibition "Listen to my Voice", sponsored by the Federation of Evangelical Churches in Italy and the Clewer Initiative, May 2022, Photo: WCC

Webinar on World Refugee Day will focus on statelessness and the “Interfaith Affirmations on Belongingness”

On 20 June, World Refugee Day, a World Council of Churches (WCC) webinar will focus on statelessness and the recently addopted “Interfaith Affirmations on Belongingness.”

14 June 2022

Message

Message from participants in the second ecumenical round table on Ukraine

In a second ecumenical roundtable meeting convened by the World Council of Churches (WCC) on 10 June in Bossey, Switzerland, senior representatives of WCC member churches from several European countries neighboring and directly affected by the current conflict gathered to consult each other on relevant developments since the first roundtable meeting held 30 March.

10 June 2022

Statement: public statement

Stockholm+50 Interfaith Statement - “Faith Values and Reach - Contribution to Environmental Policy”

03 June 2022

Letter

WCC pastoral letter to the Korean Christian Federation

In a pastoral letter to the Korean Christian Federation, World Council of Churches acting general secretary Rev. Prof. Dr Ioan Sauca expressed deep concern over the COVID-19 outbreak in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea.

01 June 2022

General Secretary

Young women hold hands during a team-building exercise in a health training centre, Pondicherry, India

“Changemakers” course will help empower the grassroots for freedom of religion or belief

A new “Local Changemakers Course” is being released by the Freedom of Religion or Belief Learning Platform to help empower local communities in their fight for human rights, particularly freedom of religion or belief.

19 May 2022

Event

People hold signs at a June 3, 2020, Black Lives Matter protest in Eugene, Oregon. Participants were protesting the murder of George Floyd and other African-Americans by police. "I can't breathe" is a reference to some of Floyd's last words as he was choked to death by a policeman.

WCC Webinar: "Two years after the death of George Floyd: Antiracism, #BLM and the United Nations"

25 May 2022

A 25 May webinar—held on the exact same date of the tragic killing of George Floyd—will explore how the racial justice landscape has evolved, particularly in the United States as well as at the United Nations (UN).

Online

Webinar will explore how racial justice landscape has evolved

12 May 2022

Advocacy report

Belonging - Affirmations for Faith Leaders

Background

Genesis of the document

Recognising that we all live in multi-religious societies, African church leaders gathered in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, during the 2016 World Council of Churches (WCC) Commission of the Churches on International Affairs (CCIA) regional workshop on “Birth Registration and Gender Discriminatory Nationality Laws in Africa”, stressed the need to develop inter-faith strategies and affirmations in our advocacy work for the human rights of stateless people.

06 May 2022

WCC Programmes

WCC mourns loss of Rev. Dwain C. Epps, who carried a strong, prophetic voice

The World Council of Churches (WCC) is mourning the loss of Rev. Dwain Epps, who passed away on 28 April at the Fribourg Cantonal Hospital.

29 April 2022

Members of the ecumenical solidarity visit to Sudan

Ecumenical solidarity visit encourages cooperation between churches and people of Sudan

To accompany the churches and people of Sudan in the midst of significant changes and challenges in the country, a delegation of World Council of Churches (WCC) along with its ecumenical partners is undertaking an ecumenical solidarity visit to Sudan.

22 April 2022

A refugee family from Ukraine arrives at border crossing in Romania

Konferenz ruft Kirchen dazu auf, zuzuhören, die Wahrheit zu sagen und sich für Menschenrechte einzusetzen

Auf einer Konferenz, die vom 9.-12. April in Wuppertal, Deutschland und auch online stattfand, wurden Kirchen überall auf der Welt in einer Botschaft dazu aufgerufen, den Opfern von Menschenrechtsverletzungen nicht nur genauer zuzuhören, sondern sich auch stärker mit ihnen zu solidarisieren.

14 April 2022

Message

Christliches Engagement für die menschliche Würde und Menschenrechte stärken

Die Botschaft der Konferenz zu Christlichen Perspektiven zu menschlicher Würde und Menschenrechten, die gemeinsam vom ÖRK, der VEM und der EKD vom 9. bis 12. April 2022 in Wuppertal (Deutschland) und online.

14 April 2022

Conference calls on churches to listen, speak the truth and advocate for human rights

A conference held in Wuppertal, Germany, and online on 9-12 April published a message calling on churches across the world to not only listen more closely to the victims of human rights violations, but to act in stronger solidarity with them.

13 April 2022

Message

Strengthening Christian Commitment to Human Dignity and Human Rights

Message of the conference "Christian Perspectives on Human Dignity and Human Rights", organised jointly by WCC, UEM and EKD, gathering 47 participants from 22 countries in Wuppertal (Germany) and online from 9 to 12 April 2022.

13 April 2022

Participants of the conference “Christian Perspectives on Human Dignity and Human Rights”

Podiumsdiskussion: Kirchen werden dazu aufgerufen, sich für die Rechte und Würde von allen Menschen einzusetzen

Die Teilnehmerinnen und Teilnehmer der internationalen Konferenz in Wuppertal sprachen über biblische, theologische und praktische Perspektiven zur Menschenwürde und forderten die Kirchen bei der öffentlichen Podiumsdiskussion am 11. April zu einem gemeinsamen Verständnis und zum Schutz der Menschenrechte auf.

13 April 2022

Panel discussion calls churches to stand up for rights and dignity of every human being

Bringing together biblical, theological and practical perspectives on human dignity, participants of the international conference in Wuppertal challenged churches for a common understanding and protection of human rights during the public panel discussion on 11 April.

12 April 2022