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The World Council of Churches (WCC) has approved a Code of Conduct for participants at the WCC 11th Assembly. Participation in the assembly presupposes agreement and adherence to the code, which will be applicable at all times and in all places during the assembly, including the assembly venue, the city of Karlsruhe and any excursion. The Code of Conduct outlines behavioral expectations related to sexual harassment, intimidation, corruption, fraud, and many other areas.

In a joint message on gender-based violence, sexual abuse, and faith communities, 26 World Council of Churches (WCC) Thursdays in Black ambassadors lament that the scourge of sexual and gender-based violence continues unabated—and call on faith communities to prevent such violence in their own spaces.

There are 181 blocks—and every single one tells a story. Arranged in colorful strips that flow like liquid, they will gently move when people pass by them at the World Council of Churches (WCC) 11th Assembly in Karlsruhe.

En una declaración pública, el Comité Central del Consejo Mundial de Iglesias (CMI) llama a las iglesias miembros y a los asociados ecuménicos del CMI “a condenar o reiterar su condena de la violencia sexual y de género, así como de toda forma de violencia contra las mujeres, los niños y las personas vulnerables; a declarar que ese rechazo de la igualdad de dignidad de todas las personas y esa violencia son pecado, y a implementar las directrices relativas a la  prevención de la explotación, el abuso y el acoso sexual.

Der Zentralausschuss des Ökumenischen Rates der Kirchen (ÖRK) ruft ÖRK-Mitgliedskirchen und ökumenische Partner in einer öffentlichen Erklärung dazu auf, “sexualisierte oder geschlechtsspezifische Gewalt und jede Form von Gewalt gegen Frauen, Kinder und vulnerable Personen zu verurteilen oder ihre bereits erfolgte Verurteilung zu bekräftigen, solche Verneinung der gleichen Würde aller Menschen und derartige Gewalt zur Sünde zu erklären und Richtlinien zur Prävention von sexueller Ausbeutung, Misshandlungen and Belästigung zu implementieren.”

The World Council of Churches (WCC) central committee, in a public statement, called upon WCC member churches and ecumenical partners “to condemn or reiterate their condemnation of sexual and gender-based violence and of any form of violence against women, children and vulnerable people; to declare such rejection of the equal dignity of all people and such violence a sin; and to implement guidelines for the prevention of sexual exploitation, abuse and harassment.”

Durante la bendición de una colcha de retales de la paz recibida como regalo de las mujeres del Congreso Mundial Menonita, el Comité Central del Consejo Mundial de Iglesias (CMI) afirmó su compromiso de orar y abogar por el fin de la violencia de género. 

Während der Segnung einer Friedensdecke, die von den Frauen auf der Mennonitischen Weltkonferenz überreicht worden war, hat der Zentralausschuss des Ökumenischen Rates der Kirchen (ÖRK) seine Verpflichtung bekräftigt, für ein Ende geschlechtsspezifischer Gewalt zu beten und sich für dieses Ziel einzusetzen. 

During a blessing of a peace quilt received as a gift from the women of the Mennonite World Conference, the World Council of Churches (WCC) central committee affirmed its commitment to pray for and advocate for an end to gender-based violence.

The World Council of Churches (WCC) central committee will convene in-person from 15-18 June at the Ecumenical Center in Geneva for the first time since 2018. While solemnly acknowledging the grave crises facing the world, the WCC governing body will also bring a spirit of joyful gathering as preparations for the WCC 11th Assembly continue.  The executive committee will gather the day before on 14 June in Geneva.