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Religious radicalisation is at the heart of many political discussions worldwide but is also playing a major role in intra-Christian and interreligious dialogue. Often a divisive feature in these discussions is the tendency to stereotype certain religions as having extremist expressions and actions.

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.

A new generation of ecumenical Christians has engaged preeminent issues of contemporary global Christianity in a new publication from Globethics.

Amid the reality of migration, theological education can lead to the transformation of the church, agreed participants in a seminar organized by the WCC.

How should the growing phenomenon of migration affect training for ministry? An upcoming seminar organized by the WCC at the Ecumenical Institute Bossey will focus on evaluating experiences and devising new approaches to theological education that can help churches understand migration as an opportunity of “being the church together”.

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.

Since 1982 there has been only one official statement of the World Council of Churches (WCC) on mission and evangelism. Now in 2012 the WCC's Commission on World Mission and Evangelism (CWME) is preparing another statement to invoke new understanding of mission and evangelism amidst changing world and ecclesial scenarios.

Father Daniel Groody, a professor from Notre Dame University in the United States and a Roman Catholic priest, presented a theological approach to the topic of migration at a Tuesday 8 March gathering in the library of the World Council of Churches (WCC) in Geneva.

New models of theological education involving migrant churches are an imperative for Christianity in the 21 st century. This was one of the key convictions expressed at a joint international consultation of the programme on Ecumenical Theological Education (ETE) of the WCC and the Academy of Mission at the University of Hamburg , Germany.