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Even as international tension mounts, religious leaders from North and South Korea renewed their exchange during a December meeting that kept the push for peace alive. Members of the Steering Committee of the Ecumenical Forum for Peace, Reunification and Cooperation on the Korean Peninsula – including delegations from the Korean Christian Federation (KCF) of North Korea and of the National Council of Churches in South Korea (NCCK) – met in Shenyang, China, on 2-3 December 2019.

Youth in Asia Training for Religious Amity (YATRA) began at the Tao Fong Shan Christian Centre, Hong Kong on 7 July. Drawing young women and men from across the World Council of Churches (WCC) fellowship in Asia as well as theological institutions, the focus of this year’s YATRA is ‘Passionately Christian and Compassionately Interreligious’.

World Council of Churches (WCC) general secretary Rev. Dr Olav Fykse Tveit and a WCC delegation will visit member churches in China 7-16 January. The historic visit will begin the celebration of the WCC’s 70th anniversary. The WCC delegation, in addition to Tveit, includes WCC Asia president Dr Sang Chang and Rev. Dr Peniel Rajkumar, WCC programme executive for Interreligious Dialogue.

Le pasteur Olav Fykse Tveit, secrétaire général du Conseil œcuménique des Églises, accompagné d’une délégation du COE, effectuera une visite en Chine du 7 au 16 janvier. Cette visite mémorable marquera le début des célébrations du 70ème anniversaire du COE.

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.

On 17-23 November, the Executive Committee of the WCC met for the first time ever in China. The visit was hosted by the China Christian Council and the Three-Self Patriotic Movement. The Three-Self Patriotic Movement is a Protestant church in the People's Republic of China, as well as one of the largest Protestant bodies in the world.

Du 17 au 23 novembre, le Comité exécutif du Conseil œcuménique des Églises (COE) s’est réuni pour la toute première fois en Chine, à l’invitation du Conseil chrétien de Chine et du Mouvement patriotique des Trois autonomies. Le Mouvement patriotique des Trois autonomies est une Église protestante de la République populaire de Chine, ainsi que l’une des plus grandes organisations protestantes au monde.

Roman Catholics and Lutherans, in committing to forging ahead as pilgrims together, are significantly contributing to the wider ecumenical movement, acknowledged the WCC executive committee last week at its meeting in China.

Par leur engagement à aller ensemble de l’avant, en pèlerins, les catholiques romains et les luthériens apportent une contribution significative au mouvement œcuménique au sens large, a reconnu le Comité exécutif du COE lors de sa réunion en Chine.

The WCC Executive Committee met with the China Christian Council and the Three-Self Patriotic Movement from 17-23 November in Shanghai and Nanjing. The Three-Self Patriotic Movement is a Protestant church in the People's Republic of China, as well as one of the largest Protestant bodies in the world.

Le Comité exécutif du Conseil œcuménique des Églises (COE) a rencontré le Conseil chrétien de Chine et le Mouvement patriotique des Trois autonomies du 17 au 23 novembre à Shanghai et à Nanjing. Le Mouvement patriotique des Trois autonomies est une Église protestante de République populaire de Chine, et l’un des plus importants organismes protestants dans le monde.

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 Paris au Pakistan ou d’Orlando au Myanmar, en passant par l’Irak et le Nigeria, chaque jour apporte son lot de conflits et d’actes de violence commis au nom de la religion ou infligés à des personnes en raison de leur identité religieuse.

Following the recent nuclear test conducted by North Korea, the WCC is calling on all parties involved in the current situation on the Korean peninsula – especially South Korea, North Korea, the USA, Japan and China – to “invest in initiatives to reduce tensions, to promote dialogue and to encourage negotiations for an end to the suspended state of war, and for peaceful co-existence on the Korean peninsula, rather than measures that increase the risk of catastrophic conflict“, according to WCC general secretary Rev. Dr Olav Fykse Tveit.

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.

L’écho lointain de la violence au nom de la religion, exigeant une réaction, s’est fait entendre tout au long de la réunion de novembre 2015 des 25 membres du Comité exécutif du Conseil œcuménique des Églises à Bogis-Bossey et dans la proche ville de Genève (Suisse) alors qu’il planifiait les travaux du Conseil pour les années à venir.

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.

“Christianity in China” forms the theme of 14 articles published in the March 2015 issue of The Ecumenical Review, a quarterly journal of the WCC. According to guest editors Xiao Ping Sun and Dietrich Werner, “Although early issues of The Ecumenical Review devoted some attention to the developments in Chinese Christianity and the need for better understanding and dialogue, in recent years the journal has published few articles” describing expressions of faith in China.

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.