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Interview
Nicole Arends

Storyteller and playwright shares the mind and faith behind her craft

Kristine Greenaway, who has held many roles with the World Council of Churches (WCC) communications team, is a playwright and producer who is currently co-producing, with Nicole Arends, Shadows in the Nooks: Spirited Women in Theatre. She is member of Alumnae Theatre, a nonprofit theatre in Toronto, Canada that was created more than 100 years ago and is the oldest women-run theatre company in North America. 

09 October 2024
Interview
Angelique Walker-Smith

WCC president shares impressions of UN Summit of the Future

World Council of Churches News met president from North America Rev. Dr Angelique Keturah Walker-Smith at the UN headquarters in New York City to field her impressions about the recent UN Summit of the Future, and how the ecumenical movement might contribute to achieving the goals outlined in the UN Pact for the Future. 

25 September 2024
News
Participants of the GEM School 2024

Global institute convenes leaders in Kenya to reimagine a just economy

From 19-30 August, 27 church and youth leaders from 23 countries gathered in Limuru, Kenya, for the 7th edition of the Ecumenical School on Governance, Economics, and Management for an Economy of Life (GEM School). The participants included church leaders, pastors, theological students, finance, economics, and ecological justice experts.

03 September 2024
News
Visiting Ghana, WCC president from North America

Visiting Ghana, WCC president from North America presents “Ahead of her Time” awards and recognition of Achimota Secondary School

Rev. Dr Angelique Keturah Walker-Smith, World Council of Churches (WCC) president from North America, visited Ghana to present the Ahead of Her Time awards and the related book to renowned women leaders, past and present. She also had opportunity to visit the Achimota Secondary School which contributed to the ecumenical and leadership formation of these leaders.

06 July 2024
Bible studies
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Seven Weeks for Water 2024, final refection: "Groaning earth needs resurrection through 'water of life'"

The last reflection of the Seven Weeks for Water 2024 series of the WCC Ecumenical Water Network is jointly written by Rev. Audra Hudson Stone and Jacob Stone. They argue that natural disasters are not natural anymore; rather, they are human-induced. These disasters are the groaning of the earth, which is drawing our attention to mend our ways. The Stones are hopeful that, as Jesus rose from the shackles of death, the mother earth, too, will rise from its despair, suffering, and death through the “water of life”—Jesus Christ. To that end, we need to facilitate and practice “resurrection” of the earth!

28 March 2024
Event
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WCC at the Commission on the Status of Women

09 - 22 March 2024

The sixty-eighth session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) will take place from 11 to 22 March 2024. Representatives of Member States, UN entities, and ECOSOC-accredited non-governmental organizations (NGOs) from all regions of the world will be engaged in person and online. The CSW is the largest United Nations gathering on gender equality and women’s empowerment.