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The World Council of Churches (WCC), a global fellowship of 352 churches representing more than half a billion Christians from around the world, has been deeply involved in the work of the United Nations from as early as 1946 through its Commission of the Churches on International Affairs (CCIA). The WCC is a platform for common action by churches on issues that negate or threaten the dignity of all people. 

Message of the H.E. Archbishop Dr Aykazian Vicken, Vice-moderator of the WCC central committee at the "Religious Leaders Unite for Climate Peace in Solidarity with Refugees" event at the Ecumenical Center, Geneva, Switzerland 12 December 2023.

The Churches’ Commission for Migrants in Europe, at its General Assembly held in Rome on 6-8 November, published a message entitled “Protect people, protect our humanity." The message acknowledged the immense work being done by churches and other people of good will all over Europe. 

World Council of Churches (WCC) general secretary Rev. Prof. Dr Jerry Pillay congratulated former WCC general secretary Most Rev. Dr Olav Fykse Tveit, former WCC general secretary and presiding bishop of the Church of Norway, on receiving an award from King Harald of Norway. 

"Diakonia of Hope in a fragile world", keynote address by Rev Dr Kenneth Mtata at the Regional Conference for the DRAE (Africa and Europe) region in Neuendettelsau, Germany, 06 - 10 September 2023

Statement on the Human Rights Situation in the Philippines by the WCC central committee, Geneva, Switzerland, 21-27 June 2023.

Statement on the Human Rights Situation in the Philippines by the WCC central committee, Geneva, Switzerland, 21-27 June 2023.

Statement on the Human Rights Situation in the Philippines by the WCC central committee, Geneva, Switzerland, 21-27 June 2023.

Erklärung des Exekutivkomitees des Ökumenischen Rates der Kirchen zum Konflikt und zur humanitären Krise im Sudan, Sitzung per Videokonferenz vom 22. bis 26. Mai 2023.

Déclaration sur l'aggravation de la crise alimentaire mondiale par le comité exécutif du Conseil œcuménique des Églises, réuni par vidéoconférence du 22 au 26 mai 2023.

Welcome address by Marianne Ejdersten, World Council of Churches director of communication at the seminar "Caring for the Earth, transforming lives: Farmer-Managed Natural Regeneration" on 12 May 2023.

I am writing this report just after the celebration of Easter in the West, and I have both a sense of rejoicing that Christ is risen, defeating death and treading down evil, but also a pang of sorrow that we are not yet united in celebrating Easter together.

On 23 February 2023, at a special event at the University of Fribourg honoring his work, former acting general secretary of the World Council of Churches, Rev. Prof. Dr Ioan Sauca, delivered a lecture exploring the question: “What future for the ecumenical movement?”

La quatrième réflexion des Sept semaines pour l’eau 2020 du Réseau œcuménique de l’eau du COE est de Donald Bruce Yeates, pasteur de l’église presbytérienne Saint Andrews de Suva, à Fidji, et aumônier consultant à l’Université du Pacifique Sud. Mgr Yates est actif dans le Pacifique depuis 1975 comme universitaire dans le domaine du travail social, du développement communautaire et de la politique sociale. Il a travaillé à l’Université de Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinée et à l’Université du Pacifique Sud. Dans la réflexion qui suit, il souligne l’importance du droit de l’homme à l’eau et l’assaut de la privatisation dans le contexte de la plus célèbre eau en bouteille du monde qui provient de son pays d’origine, «l’Eau de Fidji» (Fiji Water).

The second of the seven reflections of the Lenten Campaign: Seven Weeks for Water 2017 of the Word Council of Churches’ (WCC) Ecumenical Water Network (EWN) is by Dr Agnes Abuom, moderator of the WCC’s Central Committee.

Dr. Abuom ist die erste Frau und erste Afrikanerin, die diese bedeutende Position einnimmt. Sie ist auch geschäftsführende Direktorin der Organisation TAABCO Research and Development Consultants (Forschungs- und Entwicklungsberatung) mit Sitz in Nairobi, Kenia. In ihrer Reflexion am Vorabend des Internationalen Frauentages erklärt sie als afrikanische Frau die Zusammenhänge zwischen Armut, Wasserknappheit und deren Auswirkung auf Frauen. Sie ist auch sehr kontextbezogen, da Kenia heutzutage unter einer großen Dürre leidet, welche die Situation der Frauen verschlechtert. Letztere sind in ihren Familien vorwiegend für die Wasserbeschaffung zuständig.