A webinar, “Nicaea and the Peace Witness of the Church,” held 15 July, featured a panel discussion exploring the significance and emergence of the Nicene Creed from a Mennonite/Anabaptist perspective, and how this influences the peace witness of the church.
Tsovinar Ghazaryan, programme director of the World Council of Churches (WCC) Armenia Inter-Church Charitable Round Table Foundation, took time to reflect on what it’s like to accompany people facing difficult life circumstances—and what offers a sense of strength and faith to keep going.
The World Council of Churches (WCC) participated in the 8th Annual Conference of the European Academy of Religion, being held in Vienna, Austria from 8-12 July. The overarching theme of the conference is "Religion and Socio-Cultural Transformation: European Perspectives and Beyond” and it hosted approximately 1,000 participants.
Experts in digital justice, communicators, and media representatives gathered for a side event to the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS)+20 on 8 July. The summit is being held in Geneva from 7-11 July.
The Eighth Buddhist-Christian Colloquium, organized by the Vatican’s Dicastery for Interreligious Dialogue in collaboration with Preah Sihanouk Raja Buddhist University and the Catholic Church in the Kingdom of Cambodia, released a communique entitled “Buddhists and Christians Working Together for Peace through Reconciliation and Resilience.”
An Armenian Heritage Conference, organized recently by the World Council of Churches and the Swiss Protestant Church, held in Bern, Switzerland, focused on the protection of Armenian religious and cultural heritage in Artsakh/Nagorno-Karabakh.
Churches and Christian communities worldwide are invited to use the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity 2026 resources to pray together for the unity among churches throughout the year.
An Armenian Heritage Conference, organized by the World Council of Churches and the Swiss Protestant Church, held recently in Bern, Switzerland, focused on the protection of Armenian religious and cultural heritage in Artsakh/Nagorno-Karabakh.
My city, Jerusalem, holds stories of immense beauty, profound faith, and heart-wrenching struggle. But beneath its ancient stones and sacred sites, another story unfolds, one that echoes in countless communities worldwide: the pervasive shadow of gender-based violence.
On 22 June, I was the only participant from the WCC central committee meeting at an Anglican service in the Thokoza township in Johannesburg, South Africa. It was a dedicated service with a warm atmosphere. Seated in the front of the church, many people came forward to say “welcome,” and they also helped me with a Bible and an agenda for the service.
The World Council of Churches (WCC) brought faith-based perspectives to the Fourth International Conference on Financing for Development, a major United Nations meeting held in Seville, Spain. The conference brings together world leaders to discuss how to fund global development goals, including fighting poverty and climate change.
The Latin American and Caribbean Nicaea 1700 Years conference took place in Guatemala City 1-3 July. Faith, unity, and hope is the theme that brought together more than 80 people from 15 countries across the continent.
The World Health Assembly has passed a resolution giving the World Health Organization the mandate to update a now 30-year-old review of the health impacts of nuclear war.
Im St.-Pischoi-Kloster in Ägypten hat am 28. und 29. Juni ein Planungstreffen für die Sechste Weltkonferenz für Glauben und Kirchenverfassung und das ökumenische Kurzzeit-Studienprogramm mit globaler Ausrichtung (GETI) des Ökumenischen Rats der Kirchen (ÖRK) stattgefunden. Die hybride Veranstaltung beschäftigte sich schwerpunktmäßig mit der Logistik, dem Stewards-Programm, der geplanten Kommunikation, den Besuchen bei Ortsgemeinden und Besichtigungen von Sehenswürdigkeiten und dem Budget.
The World Council of Churches Commission on World Mission and Evangelism and the Council for World Mission, hosted by the Presbyterian Church in Malaysia, are organizing a conference on “Youth and Evangelism: Empowering the next generation of church leaders,” from 24-28 August in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
The World Council of Churches (WCC) is involved in many different aspects of the 59th session of the UN Human Rights Council, currently convening in Geneva from 16 June to 9 July.
The webinar will feature a panel discussion exploring “Nicaea and the Peace Witness of the Church.” The webinar is part of a series in the lead-up to the World Council of Churches Faith and Order World Conference under the theme “Where now for visible unity?”
An upcoming webinar on 15 July will feature a panel discussion exploring “Nicaea and the Peace Witness of the Church.” The webinar is part of a series in the lead-up to the World Council of Churches Faith and Order World Conference under the theme “Where now for visible unity?”
Faith-based groups, collaborating with their partners, including the World Council of Churches, will be advocating for digital justice at the “World Summit on Information Society +20,” to be hosted by the International Telecommunication Union from 7-11 July in Geneva.
