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A webinar on 1 March—Zero Discrimination Day—will explore the theme “COVID-19, Casteism and Caste discrimination: How to mitigate pandemic-reinforced inequality and discrimination.”

Today the world joins in mourning the passing of a towering figure in the struggle for freedom and for human dignity and rights.

Desmond Mpilo Tutu was a unique character. His contagious sense of humour and laughter has helped to resolve many critical situations in South Africa’s political and church life. He was able to break almost any deadlock. He shared with us the laughter and grace of God many a time. He was a man of God with all the oddities that come with it. Read the tribute by Baldwin Sjollema.

The World Council of Churches (WCC) is gathering a group of experts and practitioners on Overcoming Racism, Racial Discrimination and Xenophobia for a pre-Assembly consultation on 6-10 December, in Geneva.

The life and insights of the German Lutheran theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer can shed light on the theme of the forthcoming assembly of the World Council of Churches, “Christ’s love moves the world to reconciliation and unity,” writes Keith Clements in the article that opens the latest issue of the WCC quarterly, The Ecumenical Review. 

La Iglesia Evangélica en Hesse y Nassau ha conmemorado la decisión, que tomó hace cincuenta años, de financiar el Programa de Lucha contra el Racismo del Consejo Mundial de Iglesias (CMI), a pesar de las críticas generalizadas de la opinión pública, en consonancia con su permanente obligación de combatir toda forma de racismo e inhumanidad.

L’Église évangélique de Hesse et Nassau a rendu hommage à sa décision prise il y a 50 ans de financer, en dépit des vives critiques soulevées, le programme de lutte contre le racisme du Conseil œcuménique des Églises (COE), comme expression de l’obligation permanente de lutter contre toute forme de racisme et d’inhumanité.

Die Evangelische Kirche in Hessen und Nassau hat an ihren Entschluss vor 50 Jahren erinnert, das Programm des Ökumenischen Rates der Kirchen (ÖRK) zur Bekämpfung von Rassismus trotz massiver öffentlicher Kritik zu unterstützen. Auch heute noch sei es eine bleibende Verpflichtung, jeder Form von Rassismus und jeder Form von Menschenfeindlichkeit entgegenzutreten.

The Evangelical Church in Hesse and Nassau has commemorated its decision 50 years ago to fund the Programme to Combat Racism of the World Council of Churches (WCC), in the face of widespread public criticism, as a continuing obligation to oppose all forms of racism and inhumanity.

The latest issue of The Ecumenical Review, the quarterly journal of the World Council of Churches (WCC), focuses on “Global Manifestations of Racism Today,” with a set of articles that originated at a theological symposium organized in Japan in 2019 as part of the WCC’s Pilgrimage of Justice and Peace.