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This week, 500 participants from all over Asia gather in Kottayam, India, to evaluate the last eight years of ecumenical work and look to challenges ahead, such as the impact of youth migration. Under the theme "God, renew us in your spirit and restore the creation", the Christian Conference of Asia (CCA) holds its 15th General assembly.

In a joint greeting to the Lutheran World Federation Assembly, gathered in Krakow, Poland from 13-19 September, World Council of Churches (WCC) general secretary Rev. Prof. Dr Pillay and WCC moderator Bishop Prof. Dr Heinrich Bedford-Strohm reflected on the assembly’s theme, “One Body, One Spirit, One Hope.”

Forty retired World Council of Churches (WCC) staff gathered at the Ecumenical Institute at Bossey on 22 August to celebrate the WCC’s 75th anniversary and to receive greetings and reflections from WCC general secretary Rev. Prof. Dr Jerry Pillay.

The World Council of Churches (WCC) is urging a renewal of a Joint Ecumenical Peace Appeal—one that calls for, among other actions toward peace, an immediate formal declaration of the end of the Korean War.

La convention d'armistice de la guerre, vieille de 70 ans, devrait être remplacée par un traité de paix, a demandé le Comité central du Conseil œcuménique des Églises (COE) dans une déclaration publique. «Alors que la péninsule coréenne connaît une nouvelle escalade de tensions et d’affrontements, nous nous rappelons que cette année marque le 70e anniversaire de l’accord d’armistice de 1953 qui a établi un cessez-le-feu, mais pas une fin officielle, à la guerre de Corée», affirme celle-ci. «Nous prions pour la paix et le dialogue afin de mettre fin à ce cycle dangereux, et pour la dénucléarisation non seulement de la péninsule coréenne mais du monde entier.»

The 70-year-old War Armistice Agreement should be replaced with a peace treaty, urged the World Council of Churches (WCC) central committee in a public statement. “In a time of renewed escalation of tensions and confrontation on the Korean Peninsula, we recall that this year marks the 70th anniversary of the 1953 Armistice Agreement which established a ceasefire, but not a formal end, to the Korean War,” reads the text. “We pray for peace and dialogue to end this dangerous cycle, and for denuclearization not only of the Korean Peninsula but of the entire world.”