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The fourth Asia Mission Conference began yesterday in Yangon, Myanmar.

An interreligious consultation on “Voices of Hope for a New Era” has called for enhanced collaboration between Buddhists and Christians in a spirit of humility and honesty and in service of a shared humanity.

From Paris to Pakistan, Orlando to Myanmar, Iraq to Nigeria, each day witnesses conflict and violence perpetrated in the name of religion or committed against persons because of their religious identity.

De París a Pakistán, de Orlando a Myanmar, de Iraq a Nigeria, cada día somos testigos del conflicto y la violencia perpetrados en nombre de la religión o cometidos contra las personas por su identidad religiosa.

Violence in the name of religion echoed in the distance, demanding a response, through the November 2015 meeting of the 25-member Executive Committee of the WCC in Bogis-Bossey and nearby Geneva, Switzerland as it planned the work of the Council in the coming years.

La violencia en nombre de la religión resonó en la distancia, exigiendo una respuesta, durante la reunión de los 25 miembros del Comité Ejecutivo del CMI celebrada en noviembre en Bogis-Bossey, cerca de Ginebra (Suiza), para planificar la labor del Consejo en los próximos años.

Young ecumenical leaders from Asia have met in Siam Reap, Cambodia to examine how religious traditions can offer resources to overcome religious violence in a changing Asian context.

Participants in a recent WCC consultation in Myanmar have stressed the need to equip churches and ecumenical organizations to build peace, human security and human dignity in order to move beyond conflicts, towards a world of peace.