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The WCC has welcomed four new programme executives.

Any prospective student who intends to study at the WCC Ecumenical Institute at Château de Bossey, in its picturesque setting near Geneva, soon learns it is an exceptional place.

An international consultation entitled “Green Reformation: Ecology, Religion, Education and the Future of the Ecumenical Movement” was held 12-15 May at the Bossey Ecumenical Institute.

As young people from across the world gathered for a three-week Interreligious Summer School at the World Council of Churches (WCC ) Bossey Ecumenical Institute, they heard inspiring greetings about interreligious dialogue from people who encouraged them to contribute to issues of religious pluralism and intercultural acceptance in a society based on migration and globalization.

“We’ve seen in the case of refugees, how the church takes a strong standpoint in welcoming those who have fled. But it isn’t always so easy in the congregations. There are many who feel fear, as we receive not only refugees but sometimes also people of other faiths. In this case, we can see a gap between what the church says, and what is actually lived.”

An upcoming Global Ecumenical Theological Institute (GETI) in Berlin, Germany, has participants like Shahriar Ashrafkhorasani, from the Church of England, looking forward to an experience that will go beyond informative into transforming.

17 Studierende haben im August am Ökumenischen Institut in Bossey einen Zertifikatskurs in interreligiösen Studien abgeschlossen. Der sechswöchige Kurs, der von der Universität Genf akkreditiert ist, besteht jeweils zur Hälfte aus einem Fernstudium und dem Studium vor Ort.

Seventeen students completed a Certificate of Advanced Studies in Interreligious Studies in August at the Ecumenical Institute at Bossey. The six-week course, credited by the University of Geneva, is evenly split between distance learning and a residential experience.

Au mois d’août 2016, 17 étudiantes et étudiants ont obtenu leur certificat d’études avancées (CAS) en études interreligieuses à l’Institut œcuménique de Bossey. Cette formation de 6 semaines, accréditée par l’Université de Genève, se divise en un enseignement à distance et une expérience en internat d’importance égale.

On a sunny, hot afternoon on the grounds of the 18th-century Château de Bossey, 17 young people from across the world gathered for their graduation ceremony in the Certificate of Advanced Studies in Interreligious Studies from the Ecumenical Institute at Bossey.

Über 120 Menschen aus der ganzen Welt sind in Halle/Saale zusammengekommen, um darüber nachzudenken, wie Einsichten aus der Reformation vor 500 Jahren heute helfen können, die Welt zu verändern.

More than 120 people from throughout the world have gathered in the eastern German city of Halle to reflect on how insights from the Protestant Reformation 500 years ago can contribute to transforming the world today.

Plus de 120 personnes du monde entier se sont réunies à Halle, dans l'est de l'Allemagne, pour réfléchir à la mesure dans laquelle les conceptions de la Réforme protestante intervenue il y a 500 ans pouvaient contribuer à transformer le monde actuel.

Fast hundert Vertreter/innen aus den deutschen Mitgliedskirchen des ÖRK trafen sich vom 16. bis 18. Januar in der Evangelischen Akademie Loccum, um ihre Erfahrungen bei der 10. Vollversammlung des ÖRK zu teilen und ein gemeinsames Weitergehen auf dem Pilgerweg der Gerechtigkeit und des Friedens zu besprechen.

Nearly one hundred representatives of the German member churches of the WCC met from 16 to 18 January at the Evangelical Academy of Loccum in order to share their experiences from the WCC 10th Assembly and to discuss how they would continue their way together on their pilgrimage of justice and peace.