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Young people holding up signs, marching for climate justice in 2019

Les jeunes prennent les commandes pour la Journée œcuménique internationale de la jeunesse

Quel est le rôle des chrétien-ne-s en matière de protection de l’environnement? Alors que les effets des changements climatiques s’intensifient au fil du temps, les enfants et les jeunes sont confrontés aux conséquences de nos actes. Cette année, le Conseil œcuménique des Églises (COE) organise un événement en ligne pour célébrer la Journée œcuménique internationale de la jeunesse, afin de permettre aux jeunes de discuter de ce problème.

20 July 2021
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Young people holding up signs, marching for climate justice in 2019

Junge Erwachsene übernehmen am ökumenischen Internationalen Tag der Jugend das Zepter

Welche Rolle kommt uns Christinnen und Christen beim Schutz der Umwelt zu? Weil sich die Auswirkungen des Klimawandels immer weiter verschärfen, werden die Kinder und jungen Erwachsenen von heute mit den Folgen unseres Handelns konfrontiert sein. Zum diesjährigen ökumenischen Internationalen Tag der Jugend am 12. August organisiert der Ökumenische Rat der Kirchen (ÖRK) eine Online-Veranstaltung, um jungen Menschen einen Raum zu bieten, sich über das Thema Klimawandel auszutauschen. 

20 July 2021
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Young people holding up signs, marching for climate justice in 2019

#Youthtakeover for Ecumenical International Youth Day

What is our role as Christians in protecting the environment? As the impact of climate change intensifies over time, children and young people are facing the consequences of our actions. This year, the World Council of Churches (WCC) is organizing an online event to observe Ecumenical International Youth Day as a space for young people to discuss climate change. 

14 July 2021
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a peace flag is carried during a public march in Brazil

La pandémie frappe les communautés vulnérables et accroît les défis sociaux dans une Amérique latine politiquement troublée

Démocratie en danger, augmentation des cas de violence contre les femmes et menaces sur l’avenir des enfants. Une réunion régionale avec des représentants des Églises d’Amérique latine, organisée dans le cadre du Comité central du Conseil œcuménique des Églises (COE) de 2021, a montré que les problèmes antérieurs à la pandémie frappent désormais plus durement les communautés vulnérables.

26 June 2021
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a peace flag is carried during a public march in Brazil

Pandemie trifft gefährdete Gemeinschaften besonders stark und erhöht soziale Spannungen in einem politisch instabilen Lateinamerika

Demokratie in Gefahr, zunehmende Gewalt gegen Frauen und düstere Aussichten für die Zukunftsperspektiven von Kindern. Während eine Regionalsitzung mit Kirchendelegierten aus Lateinamerika im Rahmen der Zentralausschusstagung des Ökumenischen Rates der Kirchen 2021 wurde offensichtlich, dass sich bereits vor der Pandemie bestehende Probleme jetzt besonders dramatisch auf gefährdete Gemeinschaften auswirken.

26 June 2021
Publication
Mapping Migration Publication Cover

Mapping Migration, Mapping Churches’ Responses In Europe

Being Church Together
Darrell Jackson
Alessia Passarelli

Copublication: Churches’ Commission for Migrants in Europe and World Council of Churches

Through migration, minority churches in some countries are growing. The current study Mapping Migration, Mapping Churches’ Responses in Europe, Being Church Together attempts to provide information on actual immigration and emigration figures for twenty‐two European countries, and seeks to identify the diversity of Christian presence.

This is the third study of this nature

22 June 2021
Blog post
indigenous ceremony in Brazil

Indigenous peoples and the pandemic in the land of inequalities

476 million indigenous people live around the world, of which 11.5% live in our Latin American region. In these years that we are going from the COVID 19 pandemic in our territories (indigenous or tribal at the Latin American level), the presence of many extractive companies, mainly uranium and lithium, has increased, land traffickers and among other monoculture companies with fires for the cultivation of oil palm, logging, putting vulnerable peoples at greater risk than what is already experienced.

04 June 2021
Prayer
O Lord, open our lips and our mouth shall proclaim your praise. O Lord, give us the joy of your saving help and sustain us with your life-giving Spirit. Glory to the Father, and to the + Son, and to the Holy Spirit: as it was in the beginning, is now, and will be forever. Amen.

Morning Prayer for Monday, 15 March 2021

O Lord, open our lips, and our mouth shall proclaim your praise...

This week in the Ecumenical Prayer Cycle, we pray with the people and churches of Denmark, Faroe Islands, Finland, Greenland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden.

Prayers were prepared in cooperation with the Lutheran World Federation.

15 March 2021
Interview
Rev. Prof. Dr h.c. Cornelia Füllkrug-Weitzel

Rev. Prof. Dr h.c. Cornelia Füllkrug-Weitzel: “Respect for the life and dignity of women needs to be promoted by all churches”

Our series of interviews with Thursdays in Black ambassadors highlights those who are playing a vital role in increasing the impact of our collective call for a world without rape and violence. Rev. Prof. Dr h.c. Cornelia Füllkrug-Weitzel is retiring as president of "Brot für die Welt" and "Diakonie Katastrophenhilfe" after leading the German charity for 20 years.

03 February 2021
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Masai congregation of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Tanzania.

Christians in Africa face increasing violent attacks, repression

An intervention on behalf of the World Council of Churches (WCC) made by Peter Prove, director of the WCC Commission of the Churches on International Affairs, in a recent conference on “The Situation of Christians in Africa” lifted up the concern that, alongside the extraordinary demographic growth of Christians on the continent, churches and Christians in Africa are experiencing an increasing number of violent attacks and other forms of repression.

23 December 2020
Feature story
Archbishop Antje Jackelén

Driven by God’s grace and a sense of duty

When Rev. Dr Antje Jackelén became its first female archbishop in 2014, a major milestone was reached in the history of the Church of Sweden. It took 850 years and 69 male predecessors to get there. Jackelén also happens to be the first immigrant, at least in modern times, to occupy the highest chair of her church. That, however, she regards as a coincidence of lesser significance. For her, as a devoted Christian, the baptism matters more than the passport.   

05 November 2020