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Tackling sexual violence in war

War has always tragically impacted women and children, but the traumatic effects of weaponizing women in war have long been swept under the carpet.On 8 December, the World Council of Churches (WCC) held a hybrid discussion watched globally as part of the 16 Days Against Gender-based Violence.

14 December 2023

The Gaza neighborhood of Shejaiya bore the brunt of some of the most intense Israeli air attacks during the 2014 war. Throughout Gaza, members of the ACT Alliance are supporting health care, vocational training, rehabilitation of housing and water systems, psycho-social care, and a variety of other humanitarian activities.

WCC supports UN resolution for immediate humanitarian ceasefire in Gaza

The World Council of Churches (WCC) supports a UN resolution, passed on 12 December 2023, demanding an immediate humanitarian ceasefire in the Gaza Strip.

14 December 2023

Statement: public statement

Declaración sobre Nigeria en el contexto regional africano

Durante la reunión del Comité Ejecutivo del Consejo Mundial de Iglesias (CMI) en Abuja (Nigeria), del 8 al 14 de noviembre, el órgano rector publicó una declaración en la que reconocía su gran admiración por la “asombrosa diversidad de culturas, lenguas y religiones” de Nigeria y hacía un llamado al gobierno nigeriano a hacer un mayor esfuerzo para reparar las injusticias económicas y otros graves problemas que afectan a la nación.

14 November 2023

Executive committee

Statement: public statement

Declaración del Comité Ejecutivo del CMI sobre la guerra en Palestina e Israel

El Comité Ejecutivo del Consejo Mundial de Iglesias (CMI), reunido en Abuja (Nigeria) del 8 al 14 de noviembre, publicó una declaración en la que pide un alto el fuego inmediato y la apertura de corredores humanitarios en Palestina e Israel.

14 November 2023

Executive committee

El CMI exige un alto el fuego inmediato y corredores humanitarios en Palestina e Israel

14 November 2023

WCC demands immediate ceasefire, humanitarian corridors in Palestine and Israel

The World Council of Churches (WCC) executive committee, meeting in Abuja, Nigeria, on 8-14 November, released a statement that demands an immediate ceasefire, and the opening of humanitarian corridors in Palestine and Israel.

13 November 2023

Statement: public statement

Statement on the War in Palestine and Israel

13 November 2023

Executive committee

“Shrinking civic space and gender justice” event draws new strategies

A side event, titled “75 years on: Promoting Civic Space and Enhancing Gender Justice,” was held on 11 October in conjunction with the 54th Session of the Human Rights Council.

12 October 2023

Blog post

GEM School: a North Star of economic justice

On a recent morning walk right before dawn, I could still see the stars. I saw the Polaris Star, or North Star, which is the brightest star in its constellation. It reminded me of the Underground Railroad and the network of people in North America who led Black people from southern bondage to northern freedom by following the North Star.

25 September 2023

Rev. Dr Larry D. Pickens

Blog post

Building peace through story-telling and relationships

Conflict and trauma are realities we learn about daily. For some of us, we learn of conflict and trauma through news stories, or personal anecdotes from people close to us. For others, it is a lived and daily reality: conflict and trauma are the air we breathe.

13 September 2023

Ellen Sherby

WCC reflects on climate justice during Indian-German theological gathering

Dinesh Suna, coordinator of the World Council of Churches Ecumenical Water Network, contributed a paper to a gathering, “Indian-German Theologians Meet: Mission from Post-Colonial Perspective,” held from 4-7 September in Breklum, Germany.

11 September 2023

No peace without justice: Peacebuilding and human rights training equips young ecumenical leaders

With a focus on peacebuilding and human rights protection, The United Evangelical Mission’s International Summer School 2023, organized in cooperation with the World Council of Churches and other partners, took place in August and September in Hofgeismar, Germany.

08 September 2023

Commission on International Affairs

Lecture - Speech

“Imagining a Safer World”, address by Peter Prove at “Churches Together South Australia”

Address of Peter Prove, WCC director of international affairs on “Imagining a Safer World” at a “Churches Together South Australia” event on 13 August 2023.

14 August 2023

Impact of climate change: women and children bearing the brunt

From 2020 to 2021, more than 50 million people were displaced due to weather events and faced risks of trafficking and even death as well as discrimination based on race and gender. This finding emerged from the report of Ian Fry, special rapporteur on the promotion and protection of human rights in the context of climate change, to the 53rd session of the United Nations (UN) Human Rights Council meeting in Geneva from 19 June-14 July.

03 July 2023

As hundreds feared dead in capsized boat off coast of Greece, WCC conveys prayers to families of victims

As a search continued for missing migrants after a fishing boat capsized off the coast of Greece, the World Council of Churches (WCC) conveyed prayers to the families of victims, and to the churches in Greece and elsewhere that are responding.

16 June 2023

Group photo of the workshop participants

Seminar in Portugal, “Making the last FIRST,” widens perspectives on decolonization

The World Council of Churches (WCC) Commission on World Mission and Evangelism, in partnership with the Portuguese Council of Churches, hosted a seminar in Lisbon, Portugal, on 5-9 June entitled “Making the last FIRST,” relating this theme to decolonization.

16 June 2023

Survivors of kidnappings in Nigeria share stories of trauma, resilience, and hope

“They came to our house. We refused to open the door so they broke in though the window.”

That’s how Damaris Blessing Tiswan, a finance student at Kaduna Polytechnic, began describing her ordeal of being kidnapped with her four siblings at midnight.

28 April 2023

Grupos de derechos humanos observan un drástico aumento de los despliegues y operaciones militares en Papúa Occidental

En un reciente informe, Human Rights Monitor, una organización que colabora con el Consejo Mundial de Iglesias (CMI), expresó gran preocupación ante la intensificación de las operaciones de las fuerzas de seguridad indonesias en Papúa Occidental.

26 April 2023