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In Cameroon, hundreds of people are praying for peace, and they are also singing, dancing, marching, and listening to reflections led by people of faith who are calling for a ceasefire — now.

Thirty years ago, on 9 November 1989, when the Berlin Wall fell, the Nicolaikirche in Leipzig had gained a reputation as a gathering point for events signalling the end of an era of communist rule in what was then East Germany.

The latest issue of The Ecumenical Review, the quarterly journal of the World Council of Churches, opens with an article by WCC general secretary the Rev. Dr Olav Fykse Tveit, “Freedom, Love and Justice,” reflecting on the theme for the WCC's 11th Assembly in 2021, “Christ's love moves the world to reconciliation and unity.”

A conference in Berlin has recalled how in 1989 an ecumenical assembly mobilised dissent in the former East Germany in the run-up to a peaceful revolution that led to the collapse of communism and the end of the Berlin Wall.

The World Association for Christian Communication – Europe Region (WACC Europe) is embarking on a one-year project to identify and promote strategies to counter online hate speech focused on refugees and migrants.

Une exposition sur l’espérance de justice et de paix sera dévoilée lundi 18 septembre à 10 h 30 au Centre œcuménique de Genève, devant un parterre de 45 représentant-e-s œcuméniques du monde entier.

International organizations are increasingly looking to develop partnerships with faith-based organizations to promote development objectives, according to a special issue of The Ecumenical Review presented at a World Council of Churches’ (WCC) meeting in Geneva.

The Right Livelihood Award is seen as an “alternative Nobel Prize” and its laureates are often regarded as courageous people or organizations offering exemplary solutions to the root causes of global problems. An interactive seminar, “Fostering Solidarity for Human Rights, Peace and Justice,” featuring several laureates of the award took place on 31 October at the Ecumenical Centre in Geneva.

The latest edition of the quarterly WCC journal features a discussion of the roots of religion and violence in the Middle East. Five presentations drawn from three WCC-sponsored conferences of recent years explore aspects of the religious concepts of “promised land,” the “theology of land” and how to go about “reading the Hebrew Bible in solidarity with the Palestinian people.”

Was bedeutet das bevorstehende 500. Jubiläum der Reformation außerhalb Europas? Im Nahen Osten wird die Reformation als bedeutendes Vermächtnis angesehen, steht aber auch für die ungewisse Zukunft einer kleinen und zersplitterten Minderheit. Die Kirchen der Reformation haben nach wie vor einen hohen Stellenwert innerhalb der Konstellation christlicher Gruppierungen, sagen nicht-evangelische christliche Gläubige, die diese Kirchen zu einer Führungsrolle bei der Aufnahme ökumenischer Kontakte zu charismatischen und pfingstlichen Bewegungen auffordern.

Was hat die Idee einer „europäischen Identität“ beeinflusst? Welchen Beitrag können Kirchen und andere Glaubensgemeinschaften innerhalb einer aufgeschlossenen Vision des Säkularismus dazu leisten? Welche Rolle steht der Schweiz in diesem Kontext zu?

In 1967, the Albanian government, under despotic leader Enver Hoxha, began closing down all religious institutions in the country, declaring Albania the world’s first officially atheist state.

A compelling portrayal of the revival of the collective church in Albania is found in the voices of individuals such as Nathan Hoppe, who recalls arriving there in 1998.

This Christmas the St Luke Clinic in Tirana has come of age. Twenty-one years after it was founded it offers specialized medical assistance in an array of medical fields and its founding was the foundation of expanded church-run medical services in Albania.

Mere days after terror attacks in Beirut and Paris, the theme of an interfaith meeting of Christians and Muslims at the Ecumenical Centre in Geneva on “Religion, Peace and Violence” was entirely appropriate, said participants.