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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.

Rising populism, racism and xenophobia - how can churches act against this tide?

Practitioners, ecumenical officers, and representatives of mission and church-based humanitarian agencies came together in Geneva from 1-3 September to formulate an answer.

“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.