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Wenn digitale soziale Gerechtigkeit mit der Vernetzung von Menschen beginnt, dann endet sie vielleicht dort, wo diese Netzwerke durch repressive Regime, Extremisten, Fake News und Hassrede missbraucht werden. Am 13. September befassten sich Theologen, Politiker, Kirchenvertreter, Aktivisten und Journalisten aus aller Welt in einem Gespräch im Stil eines “Presseclubs” mit der kurzen aber äußerst komplexen Frage "Digitale Instrumente - Segen oder Fluch?”

Absorbing Philip Potter’s profoundly simple direction for the ecumenical movement—“only connect”—those gathered for an online tribute to the former World Council of Churches (WCC) general secretary tapped into the still-growing legacy of a remarkable man.

The World Council of Churches (WCC) has paid tribute to its former general secretary, Rev. Dr Philip Potter, who was born on 19 August 1921, and led the council from 1972 to 1984, a time of global religious and socio-political change.

Protopresbyter Leonid Kishkovsky, a widely known and respected priest of the Orthodox Church in America, a prominent theologian and ecumenist, former member of the World Council of Churches (WCC) central and executive committees fell asleep in the Lord on the evening of 3 August at the age of 78.

Looking toward the 11th Assembly of the World Council of Churches (WCC) to take place in 2022, the July issue of The Ecumenical Review, the WCC’s quarterly journal, contains a set of articles that focus on the assembly theme, “Christ’s love moves the world to reconciliation and unity.”

It will take at least 67 more years to close the average gender equality gap in traditional news media worldwide, shows the 6th Global Media Monitoring Project, the largest research and advocacy initiative in the world on gender equality in news and journalism.

An online intergenerational conversation held 1 July marked the 50th anniversary of the World Council of Churches (WCC) Interreligious Dialogue and Cooperation Programme.

Die Leitung des Ökumenischen Rates der Kirchen (ÖRK) sagte Journalistinnen und Journalisten gegenüber, die COVID-19-Pandemie habe zwar zahlreiche Ungleichheiten zwischen den Menschen verdeutlicht, doch in verschiedener Hinsicht auch mehr Gelegenheiten für die Kommunikation zwischen den ÖRK-Mitgliedskirchen und Partnern geschaffen.

La pandémie de COVID-19 a mis en lumière de nombreuses inégalités au sein de l’humanité, mais elle a également ouvert des possibilités de communication accrue avec les membres du Conseil œcuménique des Églises et ses partenaires, de différentes manières, a expliqué la direction du COE à des journalistes.

An online intergenerational conversation will mark the 50th anniversary of the World Council of Churches (WCC) Interreligious Dialogue and Cooperation Programme. Young people will virtually gather with former WCC staff members on 1 July.

The latest issue of the World Council of Churches’ journal International Review of Mission deals with one of the most urgent issues in the world today – reconciliation.

Under the title, “Reconciliation as a Missional Task,” the issue explores the meaning of reconciliation, how it can be understood theologically, and what its missiological dimensions mean for the church’s missional task.