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WCC webcast will mark 8th anniversary of #IBelong Campaign to end statelessness

An upcoming World Council of Churches (WCC) webcast, scheduled for 4 November, will mark the 8th anniversary of #IBelong Campaign to end statelessness.

13 October 2022

Meeting at the National Council of Churches in Korea

WCC acting general secretary visits member churches in Korea

Amid rising military tensions on the Korean Peninsula, a World Council of Churches (WCC) delegation visited member churches in Korea to express continuing solidarity of the global ecumenical fellowship with the churches of Korea searching for peace and reunification on the Korean Peninsula.

12 October 2022

In Korea, WCC acting general secretary reflects: “we are a movement and not a static institution”

As the keynote speaker during an Ecumenical Peace Conversation in South Korea on 11 October, World Council of Churches (WCC) acting general secretary Rev. Prof. Dr Ioan Sauca reflected on the theme of the recent WCC 11th Assembly, “Christ’s love moves the world to reconciliation and unity.”

11 October 2022

Message

Keynote speech of the WCC acting general secretary Rev. Prof. Dr Ioan Sauca at the Ecumenical peace conversation

Keynote speech of the World Council of Churches acting general secretary Rev. Prof. Dr Ioan Sauca at the Ecumenical peace conversation, Seoul, Korea, 11 October 2022.

11 October 2022

Feature story

Korean church leaders reflect on reconciliation: “the people’s power should be the main strategy”

The following feature begins a series of reflections from churches in different countries on "reconciliation" in the midst of conflict and division, following the theme of the World Council of Churches (WCC) 11th Assembly, “Christ’s love moves the world to reconciliation and unity.” As the WCC commits to working together as a fellowship on a “Pilgrimage of Justice, Reconciliation, and Unity,” these stories explore how deepened relationships can lead to understanding and radical change.

07 October 2022

Joint letter of the World Council of Churches and Conference of European Churches to OSCE in relation to escalation in Nagorno-Karabakh

Joint letter of Rev. Prof. Dr Ioan Sauca, acting general secretary of the World Council of Churches and Dr Jørgen Skov Sørensen, general secretary the Conference of European Churches to H.E. Zbigniew Rau, OSCE chairman-in-office, appealing for urgent action by the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe to promote a just and sustainable peace in the Caucasus.

15 September 2022

Blog post

Participants sing during the opening prayer service of the 11th Assembly of the World Council of Churches, held in Karlsruhe, Germany.

Pentecostals at the WCC 11th Assembly in Karlsruhe, Germany 2022

As a Pentecostal, I have “dreamed dreams” and had visions aplenty, but often it has been the WCC that brought those dreams and visions to life. What is found in this report fulfills a vision that I took with me to Geneva in 1989 in a meeting with then-general secretary Emilio Castro. During that visit, I called on the WCC to bring together 120 Pentecostal scholars from around the world to the WCC 7th Assembly known as Canberra ’91.

14 September 2022

Rev. Dr Harold D. Hunter

Publication

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Strengthening Christian Perspectives on Human Dignity and Human Rights

Perspectives from an International Consultative Process

The WCC, the Protestant Church in Germany and the United Evangelical Mission, initiated a two-year process of ecumenical study and reflection on the relationship between human dignity and human rights from biblical, theological, and victims’ perspectives, culminating in a Conference on Christian Perspectives on Human Dignity and Humans Rights held in Wuppertal (Germany) and online from 9–12 April 2022.

This publication consists of papers received from theologians, people with different academic backgrounds, experts in ethics and human rights, and human rights defenders—together with the joint message of the conference participants.

19 August 2022

Prayer

August 15th Joint South-North (North-South) Prayer for Peace & Reconciliation on the Korean Peninsula 2022

The World Council of Churches invites the global fellowship and all people of good will to join, on 15 August 2022, a prayer for peace and reconciliation on the Korean Peninsula.

Composed by the National Council of Churches in Korea, the prayer will be held on 14 August—the Sunday before Liberation Day, observed in both North and South Korea to mark the date in 1945 when Korea won independence from Japanese colonial oppression. The date was also when the peninsula was divided into two countries.

08 August 2022

WCC meets Ministrer of culture of Ukraine

WCC acting general secretary in Ukraine: “We came here to show our solidarity”

During the recent solidarity visit in Ukraine, a World Council of Churches (WCC) delegation has met with various state institutions working with religious issues, listening and learning from the victims of the ongoing war and asking for support in giving permission to the members of the delegation of Ukrainian Churches to leave the country and attend the WCC 11th Assembly in Karlsruhe.

08 August 2022

WCC acting general secretary letter of concern in wake of earthquake in Philippines

02 August 2022

WCC, ACT Alliance letter to President Biden on Syria sanctions

In a joint letter to President Joe Biden, the World Council of Churches (WCC) and ACT Alliance urged that he find ways in which the intended purposes of sanctions can be pursued without harm being inflicted on ordinary Syrians.

15 July 2022

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

08 July 2022

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

Ecumenical movement