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Is a successful dialogue between churches and politicians possible and what should it be based on? Can the European Green Deal inspire similar actions in other regions? What Christian values can contribute to the universal aspiration for a sustainable future?

Ce vendredi 2 septembre, les participant-e-s de la 11ᵉ Assemblée du Conseil œcuménique des Églises (COE) ont eu la possibilité de rencontrer d’autres personnes de leur région et de discuter avec elles. La forme des rencontres et les discussions soulevées dans les huit régions ont montré la diversité des cultures d’Afrique, d’Asie, des Caraïbes, d’Europe, d’Amérique latine, du Moyen-Orient, d’Amérique du Nord et du Pacifique. Ont été abordées aussi bien les questions que les participant-e-s souhaitaient mettre en avant à l’Assemblée, que la représentation des régions dans les Comités, ou encore l’élection des président-e-s du COE.

Gathering at the St Stephan Church in Karlsruhe, Germany, people from across the world joined together on 5 September to pray for peaceful unification of the Korean Peninsula.

Participants of the World Council of Churches’(WCC) 11^th Assembly had the opportunity to meet and share with others from their regions on Friday, September 2. The format and discussions of the eight regions demonstrated the diversity of cultures from Africa, Asia, Caribbean, Europe, Latin America, Middle East, North America, and Pacific – and ranged from the issues they wished to make visible in the assembly to regional representation on committees and the election of the WCC presidents.

“If you’re for climate justice, say ‘AMEN!’” was the chant as young people led a protest marching through the Brunnen exhibition zone at the 11^th Assembly of the World Council of Churches in Karlsruhe, Germany on September 2, 2022.

Karlsruhe, a city built over 300 hundred years ago without walls, open to friends and guests —at a time where other cities still hid behind their fortifications —welcomed people from all over the world to four pre-assemblies that are bringing forward powerful calls to the 11^th Assembly of the World Council of Churches (WCC).

A “ban plan” outlining what the world needs to do to eliminate nuclear weapons is the “strongest condemnation of nuclear threats by a multilateral UN conference,” said Jennifer Philpot-Nissen, programme executive for Human Rights and Disarmament for the WCC Commission of the Churches on International Affairs. 

During the World Council of Churches (WCC) central committee meeting in June, Methodist members of the WCC governing body gathered for a moment of sharing.