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GEM School explores how to make new economic world order a reality

Held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia – a city of socioeconomic contrasts – from 21 August to 1 September, the 6th edition of the Ecumenical School on Governance, Economics, and Management for an Economy of Life (GEM School 2023) gathered 24 participants to rethink economic systems for a more equitable, sustainable planet.

08 September 2023

Participants in the Fridays for Future march in Glasgow, UK, 5 November 2021, during COP26.

Climate change poses a growing threat to children’s health and well-being, highlights study

A new study published in the journals “The Lancet” and “Child Abuse and Neglect” co-authored by the World Council of Churches (WCC) highlights the alarming impact of climate change on the health and wellbeing of children.

30 August 2023

Message

Declaración de la Infancia ante la Cumbre del Nuevo Pacto Mundial de Financiación

Los niños lanzan un grito de guerra en la Cumbre por un Nuevo Pacto Mundial de Financiación: "sustituir el actual modelo económico colonial".

16 August 2023

Ecumenical movement

Message

Children's Declaration to the New Global Financing Pact Summit

Children deliver rallying cry to Summit for a New Global Financing Pact: “replace the existing colonial economic model”.

16 August 2023

Ecumenical movement

Feature story

El clamor de la infancia en la Cumbre por un nuevo pacto mundial de financiación: “sustituyan el actual modelo económico colonial”

Los niños y niñas que se reunieron antes y durante la Cumbre por el nuevo pacto mundial de financiación, celebrada los días 22 y 23 de junio en París, transmitieron un mensaje claro al presidente Macron y a los dirigentes mundiales: el actual modelo económico colonial debe ser sustituido por otro que priorice la humanidad sobre los beneficios.

27 July 2023

Blog post

Mister, why are you wearing robes?

The stories that imprint and accompany us the most are not necessarily the ones spoken most eloquently or from an orator’s elaborate formulations, but every so often those emanating out of the mouths of babes.

20 July 2023

V. Rev. Fr Hrant Tahanian

Green Village celebration underscores: “we contribute towards a sustainable planet”

Elaine Dykes, World Council of Churches (WCC) director of Finance; and Rev. Dr Kuzipa Nalwamba, WCC programme director for Unity, Mission, and Ecumenical Formation represented the WCC at a celebration of the construction sites for the buildings dubbed Kyoto and Montreal in Green Village.

17 July 2023

Feature story

Children deliver rallying cry to Summit for a New Global Financing Pact: “replace the existing colonial economic model”

Children who gathered prior and during the New Global Financial Pact, held 22-23 June in Paris, delivered a clear message to President Macron and world leaders: the existing colonial economic model must be replaced with one that prioritizes humanity over profits.

06 July 2023

El Comité Central del CMI aprueba la estrategia financiera que incluye el Green Village

En sus deliberaciones para aprobar una estrategia financiera para el Consejo Mundial de Iglesias (CMI), el Comité Central consideró las contribuciones de los miembros, los gastos relacionados con la 11^a Asamblea del CMI, el proyecto inmobiliario del Green Village y otros aspectos fiduciarios.

27 June 2023

Statement: minute

Minute on Various Pressing Issues

Minute on Various Pressing Issues by the WCC central committee, Geneva, Switzerland, 21-27 June 2023.

27 June 2023

Statement: public statement

Statement on the Human Rights Situation in the Philippines

Statement on the Human Rights Situation in the Philippines by the WCC central committee, Geneva, Switzerland, 21-27 June 2023.

27 June 2023

WCC central committee approves financial strategy that includes Green Village

In approving a financial strategy for the World Council of Churches (WCC), the WCC central committee considered membership contributions, expenses related to the WCC 11th Assembly, the Green Village development project, and other fiduciary aspects.

27 June 2023

Report

Report of the Finance Policy Committee, 2023

27 June 2023

Publication

Christ’s Love Moves the World to Reconciliation and Unity: Report of the WCC 11th Assembly

The Report of the WCC 11th Assembly is an important element of a wider collection of resources that offers a flavour of what took place at the assembly in Karlsruhe in 2022, which gathered more than 4500 people, including 659 official delegates from the WCC’s 352 member churches around the theme “Christ’s love moves the world to reconciliation and unity.”

This report includes an overview of the assembly, the message and unity statement, various reflections, an overview of the spiritual life of the assembly, reports of the work since the previous assembly, an overview of thematic plenaries and ecumenical conversations, reports of assembly committees, statements and minutes, messages from pre-assemblies, greetings to the assembly and various appendices.

25 June 2023

Report

Report of the General Secretary to the WCC Central Committee, June 2023

Report of the WCC general secretary Rev. Prof. Dr Jerry Pillay to the WCC Central Committee meeting in Geneva, Switzerland, 21 - 27 June 2023.

21 June 2023

Report

Moderator’s Address to the Central Committee, June 2023

Address of Bishop Dr Heinrich Bedford-Strohm, moderator of the World Council of Churches central committee, at the WCC central committee meeting on 21-27 June 2023.

21 June 2023

La reunión del Comité Central del CMI se centrará en la estrategia posterior a la Asamblea para ayudar al mundo a sanar

El Comité Central del Consejo Mundial de Iglesias (CMI) se reunirá del 21 al 27 de junio por primera vez desde que el órgano rector fue elegido por la 11^a Asamblea del CMI en 2022. La reunión se centrará principalmente en las estrategias y las medidas concretas para lograr los objetivos fijados por la Asamblea. A tal efecto, es fundamental traducir las prioridades en acciones en todas las áreas programáticas y seguir fortaleciendo la influencia del CMI en los asuntos mundiales en un espíritu de peregrinación, reconciliación y unidad.

20 June 2023

WCC executive committee convenes to prepare for central committee meeting

The World Council of Churches (WCC) executive committee will convene from 19-20 June to focus on preparations for the WCC central committee, which will meet on 21-27 June.

19 June 2023