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Congratulatory Message by Bishop Malusi Mpumlwana, South African Council of Churches, for Rev. Prof. Jerry Pillay at his installation as WCC General Secretary on 17 February 2023.

Greetings message by Rev. Hong-Jung Lee, general secretary of the National Council of Churches in Korea, at the Ecumenical Peace Conversation in South Korea.

Message of the conference "Christian Perspectives on Human Dignity and Human Rights", organised jointly by WCC, UEM and EKD, gathering 47 participants from 22 countries in Wuppertal (Germany) and online from 9 to 12 April 2022.

1.1 The representatives of Specialized Ministries, organizations connected to member churches of the World Council of Churches (WCC) serving the one ecumenical movement in the areas of mission, diakonia, relief and advocacy, gathered for an online Pre-Assembly 9 and 10 March 2022 in preparation for the WCC 11th Assembly, taking place in Karlsruhe, Germany, in September 2022.

This Manifesto is the outcome of a symposium on “Communication for Social Justice in a Digital Age,” held from 13 to 15 September 2021.

God of compassion and solidarity, we come together as people with open hearts...

This week in the Ecumenical Prayer Cycle, we are praying with the people and churches of  Algeria, Libya, Morocco, Western Sahara, Tunisia.

This order of service for the World Interfaith Harmony Week makes use of material from the document Serving a Wounded World in Interreligious Solidarity: A Christian Call to Reflection and Action During the COVID-19 Pandemic and Beyond, jointly produced by the World Council of Churches and the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue.

Prayers were prepared in cooperation with the Lutheran World Federation.

As a wide coalition of faith-based communities from around the world, we have committed to speaking
with one voice that rejects the existential threat to humanity that nuclear weapons pose. We reaffirm that the presence of even one nuclear weapon violates the core principles of our different faith traditions and threatens the unimaginable destruction of everything we hold dear.

The current Covid-19 pandemic has disrupted every aspect of our lives in a world already plagued with immense human suffering. In response, our organizations – the World Council of Churches (WCC), the World Communion of Reformed Churches (WCRC), the Lutheran World Federation (LWF), and the Council for World Mission (CWM) – through the joint New International Financial and Economic Architecture (NIFEA) initiative convened an e-conference under the theme, “Economy of Life in a time of Pandemic”, on 17 and 24 April 2020.

Inter-faith group active at UNFCCC conferences response to the postponement of the COP26 - 22nd of April, Earth Day

Prayer by Rev. Samson Olasupo A. Ayokunle, Ph.D, President, Christian Association of Nigeria & Nigerian Baptist Convention

Address of Pope Francis to the participants of the Conference on xenophobia, racism and populist nationalism in the context of global migration, 20 September 2018

Conference organized jointly by the Vatican Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development and the World Council of Churches in collaboration with the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity, in Rome, 18 - 20 September 2018.

World Conference on Xenophobia, Racism, and Populist Nationalism in the Context of Global Migration, organized by the World Council of Churches and the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity.

Speech of the Bishop Dr Heinrich Bedford-Strohm, chairperson of the council of the Evangelical Church in Germany, at the WCC 70th anniversary celebration on August 23 in Amsterdam

World Council of Churches - World Communion of Reformed Churches - Council for World Mission - Lutheran World Federation message on the occasion of the 3rd United Nations (UN) Financing for Development Forum. New York, 23-26 April 2018

Open letter from The National Coalition of Christian Organizations in Palestine to the World Council of Churches and the ecumenical movement.

The WCC leadership will bring the letter to the next meeting of its Executive Committee in November 2017 in Amman, Jordan. The WCC also invited its members churches and partners worldwide to read and share the letter as a local voice from today’s Palestine.

Statement by the participants of the consultation organized by the WCC and the South African Council of Churches.

Joint Statement by participants of the conference held at the Korean YMCA in Japan.

Delivered by Prof. Dr Thomas Schirrmacher, chair of the Theological Commission of the WEA, to the WCC 10th Assembly Mission Plenary.

Joint letter by the general secretaries of the WCC and the Conference of European Churches to the European Union about the situation in Greece.