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During a prayer held at the St Hippolyte Roman Catholic Church in Geneva, the World Council of Churches (WCC) and its ecumenical partners focused on the beginning of Lent for many western Christian traditions, as well as the Lenten campaign Seven Weeks for Water, led by the WCC Ecumenical Water Network.

A webinar on 13 February brought together people from different traditions to reflect on how a shared celebration of Easter can unite Christians worldwide in their common faith in the resurrected Christ.

Rev. Prof. Dr Angela Berlis, a member of the World Council of Churches Commission on Faith and Order, has received the Lambeth Cross for Ecumenism. 

A 21-person delegation from the National Council of Churches in Korea visited the World Council of Churches (WCC) on 28-29 November. 

Gustavo Gutiérrez Merino, the Peruvian Dominican priest considered one of the pioneers of liberation theology, died 22 October at the age of 96.

The Mar Thoma Syrian Church of Malabar and Old-Catholic Church in Switzerland convened at the Ecumenical Institute at Bossey on 3 October. The group also paid a visit to the new offices of the World Council of Churches (WCC) in Geneva.

A World Council of Churches (WCC) Easter Initiative will lift up the call to roll away the heavy stone of violence, war and occupation, pain and suffering, and to remind the world of what is needed to bring about peace, to transform swords into ploughshares.

A hybrid event on 8 December will offer insights from global experts on the topic “Weaponizing Women in War.”

The World Council of Churches (WCC) participated in an ecumenical vigil of prayer preceding the synod of bishops for the Catholic Church.

World Council of Churches general secretary Rev. Prof. Dr Jerry Pillay congratulated the Divinity School of Chung Chi College, Chinese University of Hong Kong, on its 60th anniversary.