World Council of Churches general secretary Rev. Prof. Dr Jerry Pillay sent a congratulatory message to the Faith and Order of Korean Churches, established ten years ago by the Korean Catholic Bishops' Conference and the National Council of Churches in Korea.
As a WCC intern, I attended the 56th session of the UN Human Rights Council, convened in Geneva between 18 June and 12 July. The WCC represents diverse voices from the world's Christian churches and their concerns at the global level.
African interfaith leaders convening in Kigali, Rwanda issued a statement on 19 July calling for forgiving debts, implementing responsible lending and borrowing principles, mainstreaming risk sharing between creditors and debtors, and scaling up access to resources for development in affordable terms.
A team from the World Council of Churches (WCC) visited Egypt at the invitation of the Coptic Orthodox Church to plan for the 2025 World Conference on Faith and Order to take place at the Logos Papal Center at Wadi El Natrun, near Alexandria.
H.E. Metropolitan Dr George Coorilos, Syrian Orthodox Patriarchate of Antioch and All the East, is a commissioner with the World Council of Churches Commission on Ecumenical Education and Formation. The commission met at Yonsei University in Seoul, South Korea, in June.
The ecumenical fellowship find inspiration in two major anniversaries that fall in 2025, the 1700th anniversary of the First Ecumenical Council at Nicaea in 325 and the 100th anniversary of the Universal Christian Conference on Life and Work in Stockholm in 1925.
This brochure highlights WCC activities and events that will commemorate these two events, but also a number of other significant anniversaries.
The World Council of Churches (WCC) welcomed its first visitor, as part of the WCC Visitors programme, in the new WCC headquarters—Dr Sigurdur Hafthorsson, theological secretary and ecumenical officer from the Church of Sweden.
Suk Yi Pang, a commissioner with the World Council of Churches Commission on Ecumenical Education and Formation, is from the Hong Kong Council of the Church of Christ in China. In a video interview, she reflects on forming the next generation of ecumenical leaders. The commission met at Yonsei University in Seoul, South Korea, in June.
When you're lovers in a dangerous time Sometimes you're made to feel as if your love's a crime -- But nothing worth having comes without some kind of fight -- Got to kick at the darkness 'til it bleeds daylight When you're lovers in a dangerous time Lovers in a dangerous time And we're lovers in a dangerous time Lovers in a dangerous time
As the World Council of Churches (WCC) Commission on Education and Ecumenical Formation closed its meeting at historic Yonsei University in Seoul, South Korea, commissioners came away with new questions about education and formation—and creative ways they’ll reach for answers in the months and years to come.
Former World Council of Churches (WCC) general secretary Rev. Dr Konrad Raiser has praised the contribution to the ecumenical movement of former WCC staff member Ernst Lange, who died suddenly 50 years ago on 3 July 1974.
“Transformative Spiritualities for the Pilgrimage of Justice and Peace,” a selection of reflections from Indigenous perspectives to women’s voices, from black communities ́ to campesino/as ́struggles, from specific Christian traditions to sister faiths,” is now also available in German as Transformative Spiritualitäten für den Pilgerweg der Gerechtigkeit und des Friedens.
As the World Council of Churches (WCC) says goodbye to its present headquarters, hoping to return to a renovated Ecumenical Centre before long, we invite you to pay a visit to some places of ecumenical memory in Geneva with which the inspiring life stories of youth ecumenical organisations and of the WCC are associated.
The following homily was offered by Fr Raúl Ortiz Toro, deputy secretary of the Episcopal Conference of Colombia, during a WCC executive committee meeting in Colombia from 6-11 June, where the governing body focused on the business of the WCC and on absorbing the life and witness of churches at the heart of the Pilgrimage of Justice, Reconciliation, and Unity.
As the Ecumenical Centre moves into the Green Village, the change means a more environmentally sustainable workplace for the World Council of Churches (WCC), as well as an opportunity to keep some of the most treasured aspects of the Ecumenical Centre—especially its spirit of unity, inclusivity, and mystique!
