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Easter prayers – by Rev. Meghan Johnston Aelabouni

Gracious God, when suffering and injustice seem unending, we pray for Sumud — the steadfast endurance and resilience that we find in you.

21 March 2024

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The Church of Sweden: Ecumenical Catalyst, International Agent of Peace

15 February 2024

General Secretary

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WCC comments to the zero draft of the "Pact for the Future"

The World Council of Churches comments to the zero draft of the “Pact for the Future,” the envisaged outcome of the UN Summit for the Future, submitted on 12 February 2024 (extended version).

12 February 2024

Commission on International Affairs

Prayer

O God, you wipe away all tears from our faces. You have swallowed up death. Awaken and strengthen within us that hope into which you have called us: nothing will separate us from your love. Let us be glad and rejoice! We ask this all in the name of Jesus, our Saviour and Lord. Lord, have mercy.

Morning Prayer for Tuesday, 6 April 2021

This week, with the Ecumenical Prayer Cycle, we pray for the churches and people of Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Serbia, and Slovenia.

Prayers were prepared in cooperation with the Lutheran World Federation.

06 April 2021

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Programme of the 5th Annual Symposium on the Role of Religion and Faith-Based Organizations in International Affairs

Tuesday, 29 January 2019: the 5th Annual Symposium on the Role of Religion and Faith-based Organizations in International Affairs will focus on financing for sustainable development and build on this vision of an economy of life as the flourishing of all life.

24 January 2019

WCC Programmes

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9.5 Theses for a new quest for unity and peace through Ecumenical Diakonia

9.5 Theses for a new quest for unity and peace through Ecumenical Diakonia (In the month commemorating 500 years of Reformation, a modest contribution to our joint reflection and actions for a new transformation of the world towards unity, justice and peace, might be expressed in one-tenth the number of theses that initiated the transformation called the “Reformation”.)

04 October 2017

General Secretary