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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.

Journals have played a significant role in the history of the ecumenical movement, according to an event held during the European Academy of Religion in Bologna, Italy.

More than 1100 religious studies specialists, theologians, ecumenists and other scholars are meeting in the Italian city of Bologna for the 2019 European Academy of Religion, a five-day event with more than 320 different sessions.

Theology can provide solutions for the sustainability issues that challenge the common home of humanity, according to the contributors to the latest issue of The Ecumenical Review, the quarterly journal of the World Council of Churches (WCC).

A special locomotive bearing the motto of the 2019 Kirchentag, Germany’s biggest regular Protestant festival, will travel the length and breadth of the country as a “rolling ambassador” for the event that takes place this year in June in the western German city of Dortmund.

The latest issue of the International Review of Mission, the biannual journal of the WCC contains a selection of articles which were on the one hand given as key lectures at the Conference on World Mission and Evangelism in Arusha from 8-13 March 2018 and on the other hand articles from Missiologists from all over the world, including Catholic, Pentecostal, Protestant and Orthodox voices, asking about “Mission quo vadis after Arusha?”.

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.

A large-scale gathering of religious scholars, publishers, and librarians in the United States has yielded promising new ideas for the publications programme of the World Council of Churches (WCC) over the next few years.

The latest issue of The Ecumenical Review, the quarterly journal of the World Council of Churches, contains a selection of articles received in response to a call for contributions by younger theologians and researchers to mark the WCC’s 70th anniversary.

Haben Sie jemals daran gedacht, ein Oratorium über die ökumenische Bewegung zu komponieren und dieses Werk dem Ökumenischen Rat der Kirchen zu widmen?

Avez-vous déjà songé à composer un oratorio à propos du mouvement œcuménique, et à le dédier au Conseil œcuménique des Églises?

Nach eigenen Angaben war John D. Lewis ein „sehr junger Achtzehnjähriger“, als er vor 45 Jahren nach Genf zur ÖRK-Zentralausschusstagung kam, um als Steward mitzuhelfen. Seine Erfahrungen auf dieser und auf der darauf folgenden Tagung in Berlin sind ihm immer noch präsent.

De son propre aveu, John D. Lewis n'était qu'un gamin lorsqu'il est arrivé comme steward à la réunion du Comité central du COE, et ce, il y a 45 ans à Genève. En effet, à l'époque, il avait seulement 18 ans. Ce qu'il a découvert à cette époque-là, puis de nouveau à Berlin l'année suivante, il le porte avec lui encore aujourd'hui.

Die reiche Geschichte des Ökumenischen Rates der Kirchen im Bereich der Förderung von gegenseitigem Verständnis und Zusammenarbeit innerhalb der weltweiten Christenheit wird diese Woche in Amsterdam gefeiert, dem Ort, an dem die Gründungsveranstaltung der Bewegung einst stattfand.

The World Council of Churches’ rich history of promoting understanding and cooperation among Christians worldwide is being celebrated this week in Amsterdam, the site of the movement’s founding assembly.

La riche histoire du Conseil œcuménique des Églises, organisation qui favorise la compréhension et la coopération entre les chrétiens du monde entier, est célébrée cette semaine à Amsterdam, où a eu lieu l’Assemblée fondatrice du mouvement.

Under the title “Pentecostal Mission Theology,” the latest issue of the World Council of Churches’ journal International Review of Mission offers contributions from Pentecostal perspectives on mission in various contexts.

When the World Council of Churches (WCC) general secretary, Olav Fykse Tveit, first visited Pope Benedict XVI at the Vatican in December 2010 he took with him a pair of warm gloves as a gift for the pontiff.