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In a joint message on gender-based violence, sexual abuse, and faith communities, 26 World Council of Churches (WCC) Thursdays in Black ambassadors lament that the scourge of sexual and gender-based violence continues unabated—and call on faith communities to prevent such violence in their own spaces.

The Joint Report of the Ecumenical Indigenous Peoples Network Reference Group and the Working Group on Climate Change of the World Council of Churches (WCC) affirmed the integral and pivotal role Indigenous Peoples have in shaping an alternative path of being in the right relationship with the whole of Creation.

Friedensgebete und ein Konzert haben am 27. Juli in Südkorea die Vorbereitungsphase auf die 11. Vollversammlung des Ökumenischen Rates der Kirchen (ÖRK) markiert und der innigen Hoffnung auf eine Wiedervereinigung der koreanischen Halbinsel Ausdruck verliehen. 

Peace prayers and a concert in South Korea on 27 July marked the lead-up to World Council of Churches (WCC) 11th Assembly while expressing the fervent hope for the reunification of the Korean Peninsula.

The World Council of Churches (WCC) central committee leadership met at the Ecumenical Centre in Geneva on 18-19 July for a special focus on preparations for the WCC 11th Assembly as well as sharing from recent visits to the Middle East.

World Council of Churches (WCC) acting general secretary Rev. Prof. Dr Ioan Sauca, in his report to the WCC central committee, expressed his deep gratitude that the global ecumenical body was able to serve the world even amid unimaginable challenges.