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Applications are open for the Ecumenical Institute at Bossey’s 2024 interfaith summer course, during which students earn a Certificate of Advanced Studies in Interreligious Studies.

Siete estudiantes de seis países diferentes que han convivido en el Instituto Ecuménico de Bossey celebraron el final de su curso intensivo en estudios interreligiosos con una ceremonia de graduación. El tema del programa de este año fue “Salud y plenitud de vida en el judaísmo, el cristianismo y el islam”.

A graduation ceremony marked the end of an intensive course in interreligious studies for seven students from six different countries who lived together at the Ecumenical Institute at Bossey. The theme of this year’s program was “Health and wholeness of life in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.”

The annual interreligious summer course opened in the World Council of Churches (WCC) Ecumenical Institute at Bossey on 25 July, ushering seven students from six different countries into an exploration of the theme “Health and Wholeness of Life in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.”

The latest issue of Current Dialogue, the journal of the World Council of Churches (WCC) on interreligious dialogue and cooperation, takes as its theme “Healing Wounded Memories through Interreligious Perspective and Engagement.”

The deadline to apply for the Bossey Ecumenical Institute’s 2022 Certificate in Advanced Studies – Interreligious Studies is 1 May.

El secretario general en funciones del Consejo Mundial de Iglesias, Rev. Prof. Dr. Ioan Sauca, se reunió el 31 de agosto en el Instituto Ecuménico de Bossey con el Dr. Muhammad Bin Abulkarim Al-Issa, secretario general de la Liga Mundial Islámica, con sede en La Meca, y con Aamir Javed Sheikh, director de la Fundación Diálogo por la Paz, con sede en Noruega.

Young students from all over the world were welcomed to the World Council of Churches (WCC) Ecumenical Institute in Bossey, Switzerland on Tuesday for the Certificate of Advanced Studies in Interreligious Studies.
The theme of the 2018/2019 academic year is “Engaging for just and participatory societies - belongingness in Judaism, Christianity and Islam”.

El Instituto Ecuménico de Bossey (Suiza) del Consejo Mundial de Iglesias dio la bienvenida el martes a jóvenes estudiantes de todo el mundo para el Certificado de Estudios Avanzados sobre el diálogo interreligioso.
El tema del año académico 2018/2019 es “Trabajar por unas sociedades justas y participativas: la pertenencia en el judaísmo, el cristianismo y el islam”.

The Shia Muslim student from Canada, the Presbyterian Christian student from India and some of their companions reluctantly set off for an early run on a chilly morning to the Geneva lakeside little knowing what sunrise would bring.

El estudiante musulmán chiita de Canadá, el estudiante cristiano presbiteriano de la India y algunos de sus compañeros salieron sin mucha convicción una fría mañana para correr a orillas del lago de Ginebra, sin saber lo que les traería el amanecer.

The archbishop Dr Nathan Söderblom, an ecumenical forerunner and messenger of peace in war-torn Europe, challenged a deeply divided Christianity 100 years ago. Against all odds, the Stockholm Conference on Life and Work in 1925 gathered church leaders at a scale the world had not seen since Nicaea 1600 years earlier. And it did not end there.

Christian, Jewish and Muslim students who attended the World Council of Churches (WCC) 2018 Interreligious Summer School at the Ecumenical Institute in Bossey said that learning to break down prejudices about the other was a lasting impression from the six-week course.

As students gathered at the WCC Ecumenical Institute at Bossey for an interreligious summer school, they reflected on what brought them to the institute, and what knowledge and insights they will take home.

This week the World Council of Churches Bossey Ecumenical Institute in Switzerland is ringing with scriptural sharing, research, and dialogue drawing together perspectives from Judaism, Christianity and Islam as students work to complete a Certificate of Advanced Studies (CAS) in Interreligious Studies.

Esta semana el Instituto Ecuménico de Bossey en Suiza del Consejo Mundial de Iglesias vive unos días marcados por la puesta en común de los textos sagrados, la investigación y el diálogo que aúna las perspectivas del judaísmo, el cristianismo y el islam de los estudiantes que se afanan en completar el programa del Certificado de Estudios Avanzados (CAS) sobre el diálogo interreligioso.

Relations between the WCC and the Centre for Interreligious Dialogue in Tehran go back more than 20 years. One recent fruit of this relationship has been the developing links between the WCC and the University of Religions and Denominations in the Iranian holy city of Qom.

Las relaciones entre el CMI y el Centro para el Diálogo Interreligioso en Teherán se remontan a más de 20 años. Uno de los frutos recientes de esta relación ha sido el desarrollo de vínculos entre el CMI y la Universidad de las Religiones y las Denominaciones en la ciudad santa iraní de Qom.