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“For a Europe of solidarity and rights” – Addressing together Xenophobia, Racism and Nationalist Populism

Rev. Dr Olav Fykse Tveit – WCC General Secretary

What Does Mutual Accountability Mean

for Christians and the Christian Life?

Olav Fykse Tveit

General Secretary, World Council of Churches

Centro Pro Unione, 15 November 2018

Dr. Agnes Abuom, moderator of the World Council of Churches Central Committee, offered a speech entitled “A Clarion Christian Call to Justice and Peace: Ending Global Inequality and Climate injustice” at the Justice Conference in Oslo, Norway on 9 November.

Address to the Swedish Ecumenical Weekend, Uppsala, Sweden, 4 November 2018

Address of Baldwin Sjollema, the first director of the PCR to the WCC Central Committee 2018

Justice and only justice you shall pursue

(Deuteronomy 16:18-20)

Marie Bassili Assaad, an ecumenical leader who was WCC deputy general secretary1980-86, passed away on 30 August 2018.

At the end of our ecumenical solidarity visit from 18-21 August 2018 Ecumenical delegation sends message of encouragement and hope to the Congolese people

Speech of the Pope Francis during the Ecumenical meeting at the WCC Ecumenical Centre, 21 June 2018

Plenary presentation delivered by Prof. Isabel Apawo Phiri at the 11th All Africa Conference of Churches Assembly Kigali, Rwanda

Statement of the WCC Central Committe, 15-21 June 2018, Geneva, Switzerland

Homily of H.A.H. Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew at Saint Peter's Cathedral, Geneva, during an ecumenical prayer service celebrating the 70th Anniversary of the World Council of Churches

There are all sorts of pilgrimages for which one plans and prepares, looks forward to and anticipates with excitement. This story in Luke 24:13-35 is nothing like that. This is a story about a walk that comes from grief and trauma, from profound disappointment and sorrow. It is a story that starts with the slow steps of the depressed and cast down. But it ends with the excited running of the redeemed, and the joy of finding life transformed.

"Theological Education in the Context of Global Christianity" - Public lecture by Prof. Dr Rudolf von Sinner, presented at the Ecumenical Center, Visser´t Hooft Hall, Friday, 13 April, 11-12.30hs.

Statement read by Cardinal Kurt Koch, president of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity, during a joint press conference at the Vatican Press Office, during which it was formally announced that Pope Francis will visit the WCC in June 2018.

Reflection on the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity 2018 by Dr Ani Ghazaryan Drissi, WCC Faith and Order programme executive.

The journey of the disciples to Emmaus in Luke 24 is not a pilgrimage toward Jerusalem but leaving it disillusionment. It is a journey of finding our hearts burning as the disciples of Emmaus’s hearts were burning at the moment of sharing a meal. The text invites us to find our own Emmaus where our heart to be kindled. Each of us meets unknown pilgrims who hide an unknown Jesus, but especially meets and encounters him- or herself, discovers that that he or she has a heart that hopes, eyes to see and ears to listen, and finds him- or herself in full solidarity with every human being. The story speaks about three places in which we meet the Risen Christ: scripture, eucharist, and community. It is a pilgrimage of hope and of expectation by listening to the Word, breaking the bread, and hearing the voice of the other because everyone is created in God’s image.

In the letter to the Ephesians, Paul addresses the particular faith journey that the early Christians found themselves walking. Their pilgrimage is a journey of discovering the unity between Jews and the Gentiles, in which the Gentiles are welcomed into the covenant of promise. It invites us to wonder where God might be doing the work of reconciliation and building bridges today. God’s purpose is to lead all of us into unity with one another and to welcome those who were once strangers into the household. The reconciling love of God reaches beyond any borders.

Jesus sends out his disciples to the world of injustice and violence. The disciples, who are on a pilgrimage, are not saints but ordinary people, and they are not sent with empty hands but with power to force out evil spirits (Matt. 10:1). As Jesus warns the disciples,“I am sending you like lambs into a pack of wolves” (Matt. 10:16). The Pilgrimage of Justice and Peace is not an easy walk. It is a courageous and costly participation in God’s pilgrimage of justice and peace. Today, refugees bring justice and peace because God wants to meet us in them. In this way, the Pilgrimage of Justice and Peace could be a channel of blessing because pilgrims themselves are the recipients.

Bible Study 4, "Equipped Disciples: Embracing the Cross", Luke 24:1–12