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The Dicastery for Promoting Interreligious Dialogue is hosting a conference in Rome on the importance of women building a culture of interreligious encounter.

At the G20 Interfaith Forum, which took place 12-14 September in Bologna, Peter Prove, director of the World Council of Churches (WCC) Commission of the Churches on International Affairs, spoke on religious commitments to the Sustainable Development Goals, particularly those focusing on children, hunger, water and sanitation.

World Council of Churches acting general secretary Rev. Prof. Dr Ioan Sauca, spoke on “Is Christian Ecumenism a Model?” at the G20 Interfaith Forum in Bologna, Italy being held 12-14 September.

World Council of Churches acting general secretary Rev. Prof. Dr Ioan Sauca will participate in the G20 Interfaith Forum, to be held in Bologna, Italy on 12-14 September.

An interfaith peace prayer service in Rome organized by the Sant'Egidio Community on 20 October drew Christian, Muslim, Jewish, Buddhist, Sikh and Hindu leaders who and prayed together.

The Sant'Egidio community began a “Peace with no borders” conference in Madrid on 15 September, gathering religious leaders from all over the world to address each other on migration, the environment, dialogue and inclusion.

Religions are often thought of as distinct and competing traditions, but the phenomenon of people belonging to multiple religious traditions is widespread, according to a World Council of Churches (WCC) publication presented during the European Academy of Religion in Bologna, Italy.

On considère souvent les religions comme des traditions distinctes et en compétition les unes avec les autres, mais le phénomène de l’appartenance à de multiples traditions religieuses est très répandu, selon une publication du Conseil œcuménique des Églises (COE) présentée durant l’Académie européenne des religions à Bologne, en Italie.

A “High-Level Dialogue to Assess Progress on and Intensify Commitment To Scaling Up Diagnosis and Treatment of Paediatric HIV” was convened 6-7 December at the Pontifical Academy of Sciences in Vatican City.

At a Conference on Combating Intolerance and Discrimination on 22 October in Rome, Archbishop Emeritus Dr Anders Wejryd, current WCC president for Europe, spoke with a focus on the origins and solutions to discrimination based on religion and belief.

Lors d’une Conférence sur la lutte contre l’intolérance et la discrimination, le 22 octobre à Rome, l’archevêque émérite Dr Anders Wejryd, actuel Président du COE pour l’Europe, a centré son allocution sur les origines de la discrimination fondée sur la religion et la croyance et les solutions à y apporter.

Muslim, Jewish, Hindu, Christian and Buddhist religious leaders met this week in Assisi to discuss peace, while across the ocean in New York City global political leaders assembled at the United Nations also focussed on a troubled world.

Cette semaine, à Assise, des responsables musulmans, juifs, hindous, chrétiens et bouddhistes se sont réunis pour parler de paix, tandis que de l’autre côté de l’Atlantique, à New York, les leaders politiques du monde entier, rassemblés aux Nations Unies, discutaient d’un monde agité.

Pope Francis, Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew and Archbishop Ieronymos of Athens and All Greece met on the Greek island of Lesvos on 16 April to demonstrate their concern for the situation of refugees, migrants and asylum seekers who have come to Europe fleeing from situations of conflict and, in many cases, daily threats to their survival.

In a meditation at the Saint Egidio evening prayer in the church of Santa Maria in Trastevere, Rome on 14 December, World Council of Churches general secretary Rev. Dr Olav Fykse Tveit celebrated love and hope this Advent season, particularly in the context of the plight of thousands of refugees and varied reactions to the climate talks in Paris.

Le 14 décembre à Rome, lors de la prière du soir de Sant' Egidio, en l'église Santa Maria in Trastevere, le pasteur Olav Fykse Tveit, secrétaire général du COE, a proposé une méditation pour célébrer l'amour et l'espérance en cette période de l'Avent, évoquant plus particulièrement la détresse des milliers de réfugiés et les diverses réactions à la Conférence sur le climat de Paris.

Cardinal Kurt Koch of the Roman Catholic Church, president of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity, has granted an interview to WCC News. The conversation took place at the Global Christian Forum in Tirana, Albania where 150 high level leaders and representatives of various church traditions from more than 60 countries gathered to listen and learn from one another and to stand in solidarity with churches and Christians experiencing discrimination and persecution in the world today.

Le cardinal Kurt Koch, président du Conseil pontifical pour la promotion de l’unité des chrétiens, a accordé une interview aux Nouvelles du COE, instrument de communication du COE. La conversation ci-après s’est déroulée lors du Forum chrétien mondial, à Tirana, où dirigeants et représentants de haut niveau de différentes traditions ecclésiales se sont retrouvés pour exprimer leur solidarité avec les Églises et les chrétiennes et chrétiens victimes aujourd’hui de discrimination et de persécution dans le monde.