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The World Council of Churches (WCC) has offered input for the articulation of the UN’s “New Agenda for Peace," a process intended to update the world body’s approach to peace and security in the current global context. In its submission – which is inspired to a significant extent by the WCC 11th Assembly statement on “The Things That Make For Peace”– the WCC focused especially on the need for greater financial and practical support for peacebuilding at national and local levels, rather than for division and military confrontation.

Le 5 mai, un webinaire commémorera les victimes de l’esclavage et du commerce triangulaire, en mettant l’accent sur l’Europe.

Un webinaire organisé le 25 avril évoquera les obstacles, les opportunités et les stratégies dans la lutte contre le racisme, la xénophobie et la discrimination raciale au sein de l’Église et dans le monde.

À l’occasion du lancement du livre «The Future of Mission Cooperation» (L’avenir de la coopération missionnaire), le dernier ouvrage d’une trilogie du Conseil œcuménique des Églises (COE) sur le centenaire du Conseil international des Missions, le pasteur Jerry Pillay, secrétaire général du COE, a décrit l’ouvrage comme «l’aboutissement d’un processus riche et long».

A webinar on 25 April will explore obstacles, opportunities, and strategies to combat racism, xenophobia and racial discrimination in the church and in the world.

A 5 May webinar will remember the victims of slavery and the transatlantic slave trade, this time with a focus on Europe.

Opening the launch of the text “Future of Mission Cooperation”—the last in a World Council of Churches (WCC) trilogy reflecting on the centenary of the International Missionary Council—WCC general secretary Rev. Prof. Dr Jerry Pillay described the volume as “the outcome of a rich and long process.”

During an Africa-Europe Ecumenical Forum on Migration, held 15-19 March In Hamburg, Germany, nearly 60 people gathered to discuss, among many other issues, the negative effects of “irregular” migration, caused in part by the growth of inequality within and between countries.

The World Council of Churches (WCC) is sharing materials for a “Week of Prayer for Overcoming Racism and Xenophobia” in the week that includes the UN International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination on 21 March and the UN International Day for the Remembrance of Victims of Slavery and the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade on 25 March.

Visitors from across the globe were welcomed by the World Council of Churches (WCC) in mid-March.

Brother Alois, prior of the Taizé Community, along with a group of 60 young people from the community, visited the Ecumenical Centre in Geneva on 6 March for a time of prayer and sharing.