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The World Council of Churches (WCC) is mourning the passing of Rev. Dr Timothy Stewart, president of the Progressive National Baptist Convention.

Stewart passed away on 17 September at the age of 64.

The World Council of Churches (WCC) shared words of greeting with the Sudan Council of Churches General Assembly, held 17-18 September.

Days after sudden floods claimed lives and destroyed buildings at the Mekane Yesus Seminary in Addis Ababa, worldwide calls for solidarity and support have continued to register.

The World Council of Churches reached out to churches in Haiti in a letter to express solidarity and prayerful concern in the wake of the assassination of president Jovenel Moïse, and amid ongoing waves of the COVID-19 pandemic.

On 18 July, prayer services in South Africa will mark Nelson Mandela’s birthday and will also be an opportunity to pray for unity.

The Religious Forum Against COVID-19 has elected to observe the day in both a nationally broadcast prayer service as well as observing 67 minutes of prayer that evening.

As tension grows in the long-running regional dispute over a giant dam built by Ethiopia on the Blue Nile, one of the Nile River’s main tributaries, World Council of Churches (WCC) acting general secretary, Rev. Prof. Dr. Ioan Sauca appealed to all WCC member churches in Ethiopia, Egypt, Sudan and around the world to pray for a peaceful solution to the problem.

Religious leaders condemned the kidnapping of 140 schoolchildren from the Bethel Baptist High School in Kaduna, Nigeria, and called for their full release. The attack on 5 July was the fourth mass school kidnapping in Kaduna state since December. Search and rescue efforts are ongoing.