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Church Unites in Prayer, Firmly Condemns Massacre at Hospital, and Grieves the Loss of Hundreds of
Innocent Civilians

Greetings message by Rev. Hong-Jung Lee, general secretary of the National Council of Churches in Korea, at the Ecumenical Peace Conversation in South Korea.

Invited by the World Council of Churches and the Middle East Council of Churches, 40 representatives of religious authorities and leaders of various Iraqi religions, congregations, and ethnic groups, came together in Beirut to follow up on recommendations of the 2017 conference held in Beirut under the title "Interfaith Consultation of Social Cohesion in Iraq", and to discuss emerging challenges and future prospects for social cohesion in Iraq.

بدعوة من مجلس الكنائس العالمي ومجلس كنائس الشرق الأوسط، اجتمع في بيروت ٤٠ شخصًا يمثّلون  مرجعيات وقادة من مختلف الأديان والمكوّنات والطوائف العراقيّة وذلك لمتابعة التوصيات الصادرة عن "مؤتمر الحوار بين الأديان حول التضامن الديني والتماسك الإجتماعي في العراق" الذي كان قد انعقد في بيروت عام ٢٠١٧ ومناقشة التحديّات المستجدّة والآفاق المستقبليّة للتماسك الإجتماعي في العراق.

A reflection based on the Genesis 34, for morning prayers on 9 December 2020 for staff of the World Council of Churches, ACT Alliance and sister organizations.

Advocacy statement on situation of migrants and refugees in Europe, 22 September 2020.

15 December, 2018
Freedom of Religion or Belief in the Middle East
Cumberland Lodge
Panel
Marianne Ejdersten, WCC Communication Director

Communiqué, International Conference on ‘The Holy Scripture in a Changing World’, Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin, Armenia, 27 September – 1 October 2018.

Rev. Nadim Nassar, founder and executive director of the Awareness Foundation, offers the WCC his warmest congratulations.

Speech of the Pope Francis during the Ecumenical meeting at the WCC Ecumenical Centre, 21 June 2018

‘Let Mutual Love Continue’: Message to the Churches from the Third Global Gathering of the Global Christian Forum, Bogotá, Colombia 24-27 April 2018

The churches in Jerusalem greet you in the name of the God of peace. From this Holy City we raise our prayers for all those who have worked tirelessly so that a new foundation for peace can be built. We pray as you begin your deliberations in Madrid that the Spirit of reconciliation and understanding will prevail and that justice and peace will come to our tormented land.

Address of His-All Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew at the Al-Azhar and Muslim Council of Elders' Global Peace Conference, 28 April 2017.

Ökumenischer Rat der Kirchen (ÖRK), ACT Alliance (ACT), Lutherischer Weltbund (LWB): Erklärung zum US-amerikanischen präsidentiellen Dekret „Schutz der Nation vor der Einreise ausländischer Terroristen in die Vereinigten Staaten“ und dessen Auswirkungen auf Flüchtlinge

Joint Statement of World Council of Churches (WCC), ACT Alliance (ACT) and The Lutheran World Federation
on US Presidential Executive Order “Protecting the Nation from Foreign Terrorist Entry into the United States” and its Impact on Refugees

Consejo Mundial de Iglesias (CMI), ACT Alianza (ACT), Federación Luterana Mundial: Declaración sobre la orden ejecutiva del presidente de los Estados Unidos de América para la “Protección de la nación contra la entrada de terroristas extranjeros en los Estados Unidos” y sus consecuencias para los refugiados