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The World Council of Churches (WCC) annual review 2024 is now available in four languages: English, German, French and Spanish. Entitled “Pursuing Peace Together,” the annual review records many of the WCC’s activities undertaken in 2024 and continuing into 2025.

During the international conference ”Nicaea and the Church of the Third Millennium: Towards Catholic-Orthodox Unity,” held 3-7 June, director of the World Council of Churches Commission on Faith and Order Dr Andrej Jeftić spoke on “Nicaea and the Quest for Christian Unity: A Faith and Order Perspective on the Council’s Ecumenical Significance.”

World Council of Churches (WCC) general secretary Rev. Prof. Dr Jerry Pillay welcomed the United Nations Ocean Conference being held in Nice, France, from 9-13 June under the theme, “Accelerating action and mobilizing all actors to conserve and sustainably use the ocean.” 

Hundreds of people gathered in St Mary’s Anglican Church in Bridgetown, Barbados, for a trip down memory lane on 27 May during the annual “Hymnspeak,” during which people of all ages lifted their voices in harmony, singing timeless hymns that have shaped their faith and experiences.

Preaching at a special centennial service for the United Church of Canada, World Council of Churches general secretary Rev. Prof. Dr Jerry Pillay lifted his voice with joy and thanksgiving with those gathered at the Gower United Church in St. John’s, Newfoundland, on Pentecost Sunday. 

Amidst a global momentum in discussions on decolonization and reparations, African churches are challenging the notion that early Western missionaries were part of the colonial enterprise, while asserting that the continent’s churches were not solely a product of colonialism.

World Council of Churches (WCC) central committee moderator Bishop Prof. Dr Heinrich Bedford-Strohm gave a laudatio on His All Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew in Munich on 6 June. 

In a message to the 27th Pentecostal World Conference, being held in Helsinki 4-7 June, World Council of Churches (WCC) general secretary Rev. Prof. Dr Jerry Pillay reflected on the theme of the conference, “Go &Make,” describing it as both timely and deeply challenging. 

The World Council of Churches (WCC) central committee will convene 18-24 June in Johannesburg, South Africa for important encounters on the Pilgrimage of Justice, Reconciliation, and Unity, particularly with South African churches. 

The World Council of Churches (WCC) Sixth World Conference on Faith and Order is set for 24-28 October in Alexandria, Egypt around the theme “Where now for visible unity?”