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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”.

Une cérémonie de remise des diplômes a marqué la fin d’un cours intensif d’études interreligieuses pour sept étudiant-e-s de six pays différents qui ont vécu ensemble à l’Institut œcuménique de Bossey. Le thème du cours de cette année était «Santé et plénitude de la vie dans le judaïsme, le christianisme et l’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 latest issue of The Ecumenical Review, the quarterly journal of the World Council of Churches (WCC), focuses on the 1700th anniversary in 2025 of the first Ecumenical Council at Nicaea, a key moment in the history of Christian faith and for the ecumenical journey today

Vandalism targeting churches, cemeteries, and Christian properties in addition to physical and verbal abuse against Christian clergy have increased in the past months in the Holy Land, amid ongoing political tensions within Israeli society.

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.”

World Council of Churches (WCC) Rev. Prof. Dr Jerry Pillay expressed concern over a violent protest by rightwing Jewish activists against an Evangelical Christian event in Jerusalem on 28 May.

Con motivo del 75o aniversario de lo que los palestinos denominan la Nakba o la “catástrofe”, refiriéndose al inicio del desplazamiento forzado de cientos de miles de personas a raíz de la creación del Estado de Israel en 1948, el secretario general del Consejo Mundial de Iglesias (CMI), el Rev. Prof. Dr. Jerry Pillay, expresó su solidaridad con las iglesias miembros en Tierra Santa.

À l’occasion des commémorations du 75e anniversaire de ce que les Palestinien-ne-s appellent la Nakba, «la catastrophe», le déracinement de centaines de milliers de personnes à la création d’Israël en 1948, le secrétaire général du Conseil œcuménique des Églises (COE), le pasteur Jerry Pillay, a exprimé sa solidarité avec les Églises membres en Terre sainte.

During the 75th commemoration of what Palestinians refer to as the nakba, or “catastrophe”—when hundreds of thousands of people were uprooted during Israel's creation in 1948—World Council of Churches (WCC) general secretary Rev. Prof. Dr Jerry Pillay expressed solidarity with member churches in the Holy Land.

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.”

Jews, Christians and Muslims up to the age of 35 years are invited to apply for the 2023 Certificate of Advanced Studies (CAS) in Interreligious Studies course. Final submission date for applications is 28 February 2023.

Bishop Dr Heinrich Bedford-Strohm of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Bavaria travelled from the 11th Assembly of the World Council of Churches (WCC) in Karlsruhe, Germany, to join a 5 September ceremony marking 50 years since 11 Israeli athletes died in a terrorist attack at the Olympic Games in Munich.