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Left to right: Nestor Gomez Morales, Temjennaro Pongen, Yulia Kotlyar and Ramy Hanna at the Ecumenical Institute in Bossey, Switzerland. © WCC/Sandra Cox

Understanding justice and peace as Christian pilgrims

As the WCC promotes the vision of a “pilgrimage of justice and peace”, four students from the Ecumenical Institute in Bossey, Switzerland, share their understanding of justice and peace and how they embarked on a pilgrimage of their own.

15 January 2015
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The Churches in International Affairs Reports, 2007-2009.

The Churches in International Affairs Reports, 2007-2009.

The voices of the churches in the international arena—
Ranging across the globe, this vital compendium of documents covers an astonishing array of engagement by Christian churches through the World Council of Churches and its Commission of the Churches in International Affairs: war and peace, regional and national conflicts, disarmament and nuclear weapons, violence against women, economic justice, climate justice, freedom of religion, religious intolerance, ethnic and indigenous people’s struggles—the list goes on.

01 August 2014
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Walter Altmann, moderator of the WCC Central Committee, speaking at the WCC assembly in Busan, Republic of Korea.

Peace with justice is central to WCC’s work

Rev. Dr Walter Altmann, moderator of the WCC Central Committee, has called “peace with justice” a theme central to the work of the WCC. In a report he presented at the WCC 10th Assembly, he shared some of the principal accomplishments and challenges in the work of the WCC over the last seven years.

30 October 2013
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Prayer for peace in Syria

07 September 2013

The WCC general secretary has endorsed a call by Pope Francis for worldwide common prayer for peace in Syria “with a particular emphasis on Saturday, 7 September.”

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Summary of the Ninth Report

This document offers a summary of the Ninth report from the Joint Working Group between the Roman Catholic Church and the WCC, which relates the focus and work of the group from 2007 through 2012. As the group approaches its fiftieth year, its recent foci include in-depth work on the notion of ecclesial reception of ecumenical work, the spiritual roots of ecumenism, church participation of youth, and emerging work on migration.

12 June 2013
Joint Working Group
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Children in Samoa, 2010. © Peter Williams/WCC

WCC calls churches to pray for children

To promote children's rights and eliminate violence against children, the WCC invites its member churches to join an inter-religious call for prayer and action on 20 November.

07 November 2012
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International affairs, justice and peace are key to the ecumenical future

It is not imaginable for the World Council of Churches (WCC) to have a future “without a much stronger emphasis on international affairs and peace with justice,” said Martin Robra, programme director for the study of ecumenism in the 21st century, at a consultation on "churches and the rule of law" this week in Geneva.

01 November 2012
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Just Peace: Orthodox Perspectives

Just Peace

Orthodox Perspectives

Despite their largely pacifist origins, Christianity and Christian traditions can claim only limited success in their efforts to conciliate conflict, avoid violence, and stop war. Perhaps it is time, say the eminent contributors to this deeply reflective volume, to look at Eastern and Oriental traditions, to the very different perspectives of Orthodox Christian on issues of war, peace, and the justice that must undergird peace.

01 June 2012