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Churches prepare for weekend of prayer and action against hunger

Churches across the world are preparing for a weekend of prayer and action against hunger on 15-16 October.

12 October 2022

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Greetings message by Rev. Hong-Jung Lee, NCCK general secretary at the Ecumenical Peace Conversation

Greetings message by Rev. Hong-Jung Lee, general secretary of the National Council of Churches in Korea, at the Ecumenical Peace Conversation in South Korea.

12 October 2022

Ecumenical movement

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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

General Secretary

Feature story

help from her 8-year old daughter Atap, Atouc Dut carries home water from a well in Malek Miir, a village in South Sudan's Lol State where a persistent drought has destroyed crops and left people hungry, Photo: Paul Jeffrey/Life on Earth Pictures

Church leaders assess solutions beyond eastern Africa’s severe drought

Amid a warning that a famine is “at the doorstep” in eastern Africa, church leaders are re-stressing urgent action to save millions of people caught in a drought described as the worst in 40 years.

07 October 2022

Erklärung zum Kampf gegen Rassismus und Fremdenfeindlichkeit, die Überwindung von Diskriminierung und die Sicherstellung eines Zugehörigkeitsgefühls

Und Gott sprach: Lasset uns Menschen machen, ein Bild, das uns gleich sei. (1.Mose 1,26)

06 October 2022

Interview

Gracia Ross, WCC programme executive for Ecumenical HIV and AIDS Initiatives and Advocacy.

Gracia Ross: „Auf HIV zu reagieren ist eine moralische Verpflichtung“

Gracia Ross, Programmreferentin des Ökumenischen Rates der Kirchen (ÖRK) für die Ökumenischen HIV- und AIDS-Initiativen und Advocacy, sieht sich als Brückenbauerin zwischen Gemeinschaften, die mit HIV leben, und den Kirchen.

04 October 2022

GPS 360º: virtuelle Vollversammlung

Dank eines neuen digitalen Tools können Sie die 11. Vollversammlung des Ökumenischen Rates der Kirchen (ÖRK) miterleben, ganz gleich ob Sie in Karlsruhe sind oder online.

29 September 2022

Interview

Gracia Ross: “Responding to HIV is a moral obligation”

Gracia Ross, World Council of Churches programme executive for Ecumenical HIV and AIDS Initiatives and Advocacy, sees herself as a bridge between communities living with HIV and churches.

27 September 2022

GPS360º: A virtual assembly

Thanks to a new digital tool, you can experience the World Council of Churches’ (WCC) 11^th Assembly online - whether you were present in Karlsruhe or not.

26 September 2022

Die Kirchen der Welt kommen in Karlsruhe, Deutschland, für Gebete und Berichte zusammen

Vom 31. August bis am 8. September kamen tausende Christinnen und Christen in die deutsche Stadt Karlsruhe, um an der 11. Vollversammlung des Ökumenischen Rates der Kirchen, der ersten in Europa seit 1968 in Uppsala, teilzunehmen.

22 September 2022

Was zum Frieden dient: die Welt zu Versöhnung und Einheit bewegen

"Was zum Frieden dient: die Welt zu Versöhnung und Einheit bewegen", Erklärung der 11. Vollversammlung des Ökumenischen Rates der Kirchen (ÖRK) in Karlsruhe, Deutschland.

22 September 2022

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Voices on the ground: peace, social justice, and ethics—the way to the end of hunger

Halfway to the sustainable development goals, the latest UN indicators show a record increase in hunger. The World Food Programme and Food and Agriculture Organization report that 828 million people are hungry, an increase of 46 million from the previous year and an increase of 150 million people since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. The number of people worldwide who cannot afford a healthy diet has increased by 112 million, reaching nearly 3.1 billion by 2020, the report said. Millions of people are at risk of falling into a vicious cycle of malnutrition, ill health, and poverty, exacerbating inequalities already visible to current and future generations.

20 September 2022

Sylvain Nedelec

Feature story

Assembly workshop looked toward ending AIDS epidemic by 2030

At a workshop held at the World Council of Churches 11th Assembly, participants expressed grave concerns over the fact that, although public health experts warned about the dangers of ignoring other epidemiological efforts at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, many countries had to reshuffle critical medical resources, thereby preventing routine treatment of HIV.

19 September 2022

Statement on Confronting Racism and Xenophobia, Overcoming Discrimination, Ensuring Belonging

Then God said, ‘Let us make humankind in our image, according to our likeness (Genesis 1:26)

The World Council of Churches, at its 11th assembly, in Karlsruhe, Germany, abhors the perpetuation of all forms of racism, xenophobia and related discriminations against humanity and the pervasive suffering it causes.

16 September 2022

World’s churches converge on Germany city of Karlsruhe to pray and act

From 31 August to 8 September, thousands of Christians converged on the German city of Karlsruhe for the 11th Assembly of the World Council of Churches, the first in Europe since Uppsala in 1968.

16 September 2022

Streben nach Gerechtigkeit und Frieden für alle im Nahen Osten

" Streben nach Gerechtigkeit und Frieden für alle im Nahen Osten", eine Erklärung der 11. Vollversammlung des Ökumenischen Rates Kirchen (ÖRK)

15 September 2022

COVID-19-Pandemie beeinflusste Einnahmen und Arbeitsweisen des ÖRK

Die Auswirkungen der COVID-19-Pandemie in den Jahren 2020 und 2021 führten zu geringeren Einnahmen für den Ökumenischen Rat der Kirchen (ÖRK) und verlangten eine Anpassung der Arbeitsweise, erfuhr die 11. Vollversammlung des ÖRK.

08 September 2022