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Global Peace Prayer

22 March 2023

A Global Peace Prayer on 22 March will draw Christians together into prayer and advocacy for peace, and in hope for a better future.

Online

Event

‘Pursuing Peace in a Pluralistic World’ A Sikh-Christian Dialogue to commemorate the 550th Birth Anniversary of Guru Nanak

05 July 2019

To commemorate the 550th birth anniversary of Guru Nanak (1469), the first guru of the Sikhs, a Christian-Sikh dialogue will be organised in Geneva on the 5th of July 2019. The dialogue will focus on the theme ‘Pursuing Peace in a Pluralistic World’.

Ecumenical Centre, Geneva

Blog post

Journeying together as formative factor for my YATRA experiences

For this historic moment of YATRA 2016, the Youth in Asia Training for Religious Amity which was going to start on 28 May in Jakarta, I set off on my journey three days earlier, on May 25. Coming from a remote area in the western part of Myanmar, the journey to YATRA was a big challenge from the beginning.

14 July 2016

Hau Sian Suan

Blog post

Mennonites – MEET – Moving together

The first time I got in contact with the word “pilgrimage” was in religion class in primary school when our teacher introduced us to places in our area where Catholic pilgrims walk to. I did not understand why one would want to walk to reach a sacred place. Wasn’t every place sacred where God is present?

15 September 2015

Lydia Funck

Event

Anglican Holy Cross Church in Yangon during the visit of a WCC Living Letters team

Equipping Churches for Building Peace and Human Security

24 - 28 November 2014

What are the Christian theology and practices that undergird peace and reconciliation as fundamental Christian values? How can churches adequately articulate and affirm imperatives of gospel values of peace with justice and human security? These are some of the questions to be addressed at the WCC-sponsored Regional Workshop on “Equipping Churches for Building Peace and Human Security in Post-Conflict Situations”.

Yangon, Myanmar