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Two World Council of Churches (WCC) journals – The Ecumenical Review and International Review of Mission – have used recent issues to reflect on the WCC’s 11th Assembly, held in Karlsruhe, Germany, in 2022, around the theme “Christ’s love moves the world to reconciliation and unity.”

Los egresados del Instituto Ecuménico afirman que el máster les ha aportado tanto conocimientos como amistades duraderas

Lasting friendships and gleaning a wealth of knowledge are the abiding memory of students every year who graduate from the World Council of Churches (WCC) Ecumenical Institute at Bossey outside Geneva.

During a visit to the Temple of Céligny, 35 students from the Ecumenical Institute at Bossey strengthened ties with the local community and were invited to the homes of parishioners in pairs of two for lunch on Sunday.

Durante la fiesta de clausura del Encuentro Ecuménico de la Juventud, más de doscientos jóvenes participantes oraron y reflexionaron en la Iglesia de San Esteban de Karlsruhe.

During the closing celebration of the Ecumenical Youth Gathering, more than 200 young participants prayed and reflected at St Stephen Church in Karlsruhe.

During a 26 June service, participants from all over the world celebrated the 127th anniversary of the World Student Christian Federation in an 18th-century baroque church, Sophienkirche in Berlin, Germany.

De la construcción de la paz a la vida espiritual, de los derechos del niño a la planificación de la 11ª Asamblea: el Consejo Mundial de Iglesias (CMI) es un lugar ajetreado, tal como pudieron apreciar los estudiantes del Instituto Ecuménico Bossey del CMI durante la semana denominada “Week of Focus” que ofrece el personal del CMI.

From peacebuilding to spiritual life, from children’s rights to planning for the 11th Assembly, the World Council for Churches (WCC) is a busy place, as students from the WCC Bossey Ecumenical Institute learned during a “Week of Focus” offered by WCC staff.

Rev. Dr Santanu Kumar Patro, registrar of the Senate of Serampore College (University), passed away on 5 May in Calcutta. The news of his death was met with outpourings of grief and gratefulness from students, faculty and friends of seminaries and institutions responsible for theological education in South Asia and beyond.

Women who are leading efforts in peace-building amid growing conflict across the world met online on 23 March, and their candid exchange combined personal inspiration, mutual encouragement—and a clarion call for their prophetic voices to be heard.

On 17 June, six new master students finished their yearlong studies with the graduation ceremony of the World Council of Churches (WCC) Ecumenical Institute at Château de Bossey. WCC News met with them at the graduation.

During a graduation webcast, students from the World Council of Churches’ Ecumenical Institute Bossey described what it was like to live for ten months or more in an environment like no other. As they receive their post-graduate degrees in ecumenical studies, they look back fondly on their sense of community, professors—and even the food.

Students graduating at mountain-framed Bossey on the banks of Lake Geneva have admitted that the decision to come to the WCC Ecumenical Institute was not easy, but they left as a family with proof "that Christian unity can be lived."