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In his first report to the newly-elected World Council of Churches (WCC) executive committee, WCC moderator Bishop Dr Heinrich Bedford-Strohm reflected on why the world’s grave challenges are not God’s last word.

The World Council of Churches (WCC) executive committee, elected during the WCC 11th Assembly, will hold its first meeting on 7-11 November at the Bossey Ecumenical Institute.

The acting general secretary of the World Council of Churches, the Rev. Prof. Dr Ioan Sauca, has been honoured by the WCC’s Ecumenical Institute at the Chateau de Bossey, where he has served 24 years on its faculty, and been its director since 2001.

World Council of Churches (WCC) acting general secretary Rev. Prof. Dr Ioan Sauca conveyed sincere congratulations to Most Rev. Julius Olayinka Osayand Abbe upon his appointment and enthronement as the Primate of The Africa Church.

A Young Adults Training for Religious Amity programme is gathering this week in Thailand under the theme “Youth Interreligious Engagement, Advocating Human Dignity.”

The 26th Pentecostal World Conference, is taking place in Seoul, South Korea from 12-14 October, hosted by the Yoido Full Gospel Church, the world’s largest Pentecostal congregation.

A new publication, “Ecumenism and Peace: From Theory and Practice to Pilgrimage and Companionship,” by Dr Fernando Enns, is newly available online.

Prof. Dr Isabel Apawo Phiri, deputy general secretary of the World Council of Churches (WCC), shared greetings with the international conference of Globethics, taking place in Geneva from 17-19 October.

Amid rising military tensions on the Korean Peninsula, a World Council of Churches (WCC) delegation visited member churches in Korea to express continuing solidarity of the global ecumenical fellowship with the churches of Korea searching for peace and reunification on the Korean Peninsula.

As the keynote speaker during an Ecumenical Peace Conversation in South Korea on 11 October, World Council of Churches (WCC) acting general secretary Rev. Prof. Dr Ioan Sauca reflected on the theme of the recent WCC 11th Assembly, “Christ’s love moves the world to reconciliation and unity.”