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Reinforcing the traditional role of faith communities in offering sanctuary and, indeed hospitality to refugees, 90 faith-based leaders today committed to offering their continued and additional support to refugees, including children, on their journey to safety, including in reception and admission, meeting protection or service delivery needs and supporting communities to find solutions such as private sponsorship or scholarship programmes.

Address by His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew at the WCC Town-Hall Discussion on Interfaith Dialogue, Climate Change, and Refugee Displacement - at the Religious Leaders Unite for Climate Peace in Solidarity with Refugees, Ecumenical Center, Geneva, Switzerland 12 December 2023.

Conference at the University of Fribourg

23 February 023

Metropolitan Job of Pisidia

Statement of the National Council of Churches in Korea, 3 January 2023.

Welcome address by Marcos Hovhannisyan, bishop of the Ukrainian Diocese of Armenian Apostolic Church and chairman of the Ukrainian Council of Churches and Religious Organizations, meeting the World Council of Churches delegation on 3 August 2022.

En una segunda mesa redonda ecuménica convocada por el Consejo Mundial de Iglesias (CMI) el 10 de junio en Bossey (Suiza), altos representantes de las iglesias miembros del CMI de varios países europeos vecinos que se han visto directamente afectados por el actual conflicto se reunieron para llevar a cabo una consulta conjunta en relación con los acontecimientos relevantes que han tenido lugar desde la primera mesa redonda celebrada el 30 de marzo.

In a second ecumenical roundtable meeting convened by the World Council of Churches (WCC) on 10 June in Bossey, Switzerland, senior representatives of WCC member churches from several European countries neighboring and directly affected by the current conflict gathered to consult each other on relevant developments since the first roundtable meeting held 30 March.

Rev. Michael Kinnamon, Ph.D., theological consultant of the WCC Inter-Orthodox Pre-Assembly, reflects on the experience at the Pre-Assembly consultation in Cyprus on 9-16 May 2022.

2022 Easter Prayer for Peace and Reunification on the Korean Peninsula, drafted by the National Council of Churches in Korea.

The World Council of Churches (WCC) convened an ecumenical roundtable consultation on the situation in Ukraine, which took place 30 March at the Bossey Ecumenical Institute.

1.1 The representatives of Specialized Ministries, organizations connected to member churches of the World Council of Churches (WCC) serving the one ecumenical movement in the areas of mission, diakonia, relief and advocacy, gathered for an online Pre-Assembly 9 and 10 March 2022 in preparation for the WCC 11th Assembly, taking place in Karlsruhe, Germany, in September 2022.

Statement from the International Virtual Ecumenical Partners Conference for Peace and Security in Cabo Delgado, Mozambique, held on 29 October 2021.

On 4 October 2021, faith leaders representing the world’s major religions joined scientists at the Vatican to call on the international community to raise their ambition and step up their climate action ahead of COP26. Almost 40 faith leaders signed a joint Appeal, which was presented by Pope Francis to COP26 President-Designate, the Rt Hon Alok Sharma, and the Italian Minister for Foreign Affairs, Hon. Luigi Di Maio.

An Ecumenical Call: High Time for ‘Peace and Accountability’ in South Sudan by the Ecumenical Network on South Sudan (ENSS) Europe and North America Hub on the occasion of the International Peace Day, 21st September 2021

Scottish and UK religious leaders have signed a declaration urging governments to take transformational climate action at the COP26 in November.

Este manifiesto es el resultado del simposio “La comunicación para la justicia social en la era digital”, celebrado del 13 al 15 de septiembre de 2021.

This Manifesto is the outcome of a symposium on “Communication for Social Justice in a Digital Age,” held from 13 to 15 September 2021.

In a 13 July letter to the United Nations Security Council, the Diálogo Intereclesial por la Paz en Colombia (DiPaz), an interchurch platform for dialogue for peace in Colombia, called on the international community to urge the Colombian government to resume the full implementation of the peace agreement and strengthen channels of dialogue to resolve societal issues.