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Report of the Acting General Secretary to the WCC Central Committee, June 2022

Report of the Acting General Secretary to the WCC Central Committee meeting, 15 June 2022

15 June 2022

Message

Message from participants in the second ecumenical round table on Ukraine

In a second ecumenical roundtable meeting convened by the World Council of Churches (WCC) on 10 June in Bossey, Switzerland, senior representatives of WCC member churches from several European countries neighboring and directly affected by the current conflict gathered to consult each other on relevant developments since the first roundtable meeting held 30 March.

10 June 2022

Ecumenical movement

Report

Report of the Acting General Secretary at the WCC executive committee meeting, 30 May-2 June 2022

It is with humble gratitude that I want to express my deep appreciation to the leadership of the central committee for their daily accompaniment and direction. Their leadership during challenging times makes a difference.

31 May 2022

Executive committee

Interview

Man dressed in Orthodox religious garb speaking at podium.

Fr Ioan Sauca: “God is on the side of those who are suffering”

The World Council of Churches (WCC) has, since the first day of the war in Ukraine and even in the months before, been working and praying earnestly for peace in this conflict and throughout the world. From the beginning, the WCC has called for an immediate end to armed hostilities, to stop the war and has appealed also for an immediate end to indiscriminate attacks with an escalating impact on civilians in Ukraine. WCC News met online with the WCC acting general secretary Rev. Prof. Dr Ioan Sauca to get the latest update on the work of the WCC.

14 April 2022

Message

Message from participants in ecumenical round table on Ukraine

The World Council of Churches (WCC) convened an ecumenical roundtable consultation on the situation in Ukraine, which took place 30 March at the Bossey Ecumenical Institute.

30 March 2022

Ecumenical movement

1920 (4): Towards a Universal Conference of the Church of Christ on Life and Work

Hotel Beau-Séjour, Geneva, 8 August 1920. It’s been too cold an August, with average temperatures around 17.3 Celsius. Tomorrow is the opening day of a very promising post-war international consultation. Its title is “The Preliminary Meeting to Consider an Ecumenical Conference of the Church of Christ on Life and work.” However, I can tell you that a Church of Scotland delegate, J.-A. MacClymont, will certainly object to this awkward use of the word “ecumenical.”

30 September 2020

Address to the Czechoslovak Hussite Church

By World Council of Churches general secretary Rev. Dr Olav Fykse Tveit, on 17 December.

17 December 2018

Prospects and Challenges for Ecumenism and the Ecumenical Movement

Address to the Swedish Ecumenical Weekend, Uppsala, Sweden, 4 November 2018

04 November 2018

Executive committee

Rev. Dr Jooseop Keum receives honorary doctorate from Reformed University of Debrecen

Rev. Dr Jooseop Keum received an honorary doctorate on 8 September from the Debrecen Reformed Theological University (DRTU) in Hungary. Keum, a pastor with the Presbyterian Church in Korea, is a former World Council of Churches executive and long-time friend of the Reformed Church in Hungary.

13 September 2018

The past as prologue: The Reformation and the future of Christian dialogue

The past as prologue: The Reformation and the future of Christian dialogue, by Rev Dr. Olav Fykse Tveit, World Council of Churches general secretary, in Minneapolis and Collegeville, 8 and 10 September 2017

09 September 2017

European Reformation Roadmap to link historical sites in 67 cities, 19 countries

A celebration of the 500th anniversary of the Reformation, called the “European Reformation Roadmap,” will begin in November 2016 in Geneva, then tour across sites of significance through May 2017.

31 May 2016

Europe needs repentance - a European value from the Reformation?

Presentation by the Rev. Dr Olav Fykse Tveit at the Wider Outlook Works Festival in Halle, Germany.

06 May 2016

A street pastor reaches out to young people in the Danish port of Esbjerg. © Peter Williams/WCC

Mission in secularized contexts focus of seminar

Representatives of different Christian traditions will analyze the challenges to mission in secularized contexts during a seminar 22-26 February in Hungary.

18 February 2016

Arif Virani speaks with reporter Maureen Brosnahan about Roma family case. © Kristine Greenaway

Freeing Lulu: Roma family who lived in “sanctuary” in Canadian church, granted residency status

Members of a small congregation in Toronto, Canada are celebrating. On Sunday the member of parliament for their riding came to the church to announce that the federal government has granted residency status to a Roma family that had lived under “sanctuary” protection in the church for 18 months.

10 February 2016

Event

European Reformation Roadmap launch

03 - 04 November 2016

The year 2017 marks the 500th anniversary of the Reformation. A chain of commemorative events, starting in Geneva, will connect cities in the Netherlands, Italy, Hungary, Switzerland, Slovenia, Ireland and Germany. Each stop-over will last 36 hours: regional and ecumenical partners will invite people to a festive occasion with numerous activities, in order to discover local traces of Reformation history.

Geneva, Switzerland

Bishop Dr Tamás Fabiny of the Lutheran Church in Hungary. Photo: WCC/Paul Jeffrey

The churches walk with refugees in Hungary

“I cannot forget the poignant memories of the march when thousands of refugees set out from Budapest, Hungary, towards Austria, and finally reached the other side of the border aboard buses provided by the Hungarian government,” said Bishop Tamas Fabiny of the Lutheran Church in Hungary, vice-president of the Lutheran World Federation.

30 September 2015

Olav Fykse Tveit, and members of the delegation and the Ecumenical Council of Churches in Hungary with Bence Retvari, parliamentary state secretary of the Ministry of Human Resources. © WCC/Paul Jeffrey

Tveit: We need an international solution to the refugee crisis

Representatives of major international ecumenical organizations visited Hungary 25-29 September to strengthen efforts in support of refugees in Europe and the Middle East.

29 September 2015

Refugees are arriving in large numbers along the rails to cross the Serbian-Hungarian border. Photo: Fekete Dániel/Hungarian Inter-church Aid/ACT Alliance

Representatives of ecumenical agencies will visit Hungary amidst refugee crisis

Amidst the current refugee crisis, representatives of major international ecumenical organizations will embark on a solidarity visit to Hungary from 25 to 28 September.

25 September 2015