During a sermon at the World Methodist Council in Gothenburg, Sweden on 14 August, World Council of Churches (WCC) general secretary Rev. Prof. Dr Jerry Pillay explored the heart of the gathering: “On the Move.”
The Baptist World Alliance global gathering in Nigeria, meeting under the theme, “Blessed Are the Peacemakers: Becoming Agents of Peace,” is being held 6-12 July in Lagos, Nigeria.
As the World Council of Churches Commission on World Mission and Evangelism opened its meeting in Nairobi, Kenya under the theme “Preparing the Way…mission as counter-creating,” commissioners began wrestling with the key issues they will address in the coming months and years.
"Living into Hope: Disciples Transforming the World", a homily by Rev. Prof. Dr Jerry Pillay, WCC general secretary on Jeremiah 22, Galatians 5, and Luke 4 at the Presbyterian Church (USA) 226th General Assembly in Salt Lake City, 2 July 2024.
From calling for more government intervention, to stamping out stigma, to providing resources for children and mothers, religious leaders in Nigeria, accompanied by the World Council of Churches (WCC), are making strides in their response to HIV and AIDS.
Ezéchiel Hébié from the Chemin Neuf community in Burkina Faso, took a look back on the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity, recently celebrated in southern hemisphere. Hébié was also part of the drafting group of Week of Prayer for Christian Unity materials for 2024.
Rev. Dr Mauro de Souza, second vice president of the Evangelical Church of the Lutheran Confession in Brazil, and a member of the World Council of Churches central committee, took time to reflect on the grave needs amid the flood disaster in Brazil—and how churches are offering hope.
The World Council of Churches (WCC) and its partners organized a side event on 23 April in conjunction with the UN Financing for Development Forum, which is occurring 22-25 April.
As climate change induced floods terrorize communities in East Africa, clerics and officials here fear that nature was hitting back.
Floods have struck Kenya and Tanzania, leaving behind a trail of death, destruction, and displacement. Floods are most intense in some of the same areas previously struck by a lengthy drought described by the UN as the worst in four decades.
On 15 April, faith-based and civil society organizations came together to engage with the theme of the third session of the Permanent Forum on People of African Descent and its implications for the work of religious organizations working with and for People of African Descent.
Linking with the theme of 68th session of the UN Commission on the Status of Women, “Accelerating the achievement of gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls by addressing poverty and strengthening institutions and financing with a gender perspective”, this hybrid session will bring a range of perspectives to bear on the questions: What can we do to address extreme wealth concentration? How can taxing the richest in our societies as well as addressing corporate tax evasion serve to advance the goal of gender equity? And why should faith-based organisations care?
Peace in Colombia has been a long time coming, began Juan Carlos Cuéllar, representative of the Ejército de Liberación Nacional (ELN), as he spoke at a World Council of Churches (WCC) panel discussion titled "The things that make for peace in Colombia” on 9 April.
A panel discussion, “Zacchaeus Tax: Transforming the Global Economic System and Advancing Gender Justice,” on 19 March explored the intersections between tax justice and gender justice—and why this is a matter of faith.
Zacchaeus Tax (ZacTax) is an ecumenical campaign by churches, seeking a transformed global tax system that acts like the biblical character Zacchaeus, delivering equity and making reparation for historic and structural injustice.
As three World Council of Churches commissions—the Commission of the Churches on International Affairs, Commission on Health and Healing, and Commission on Climate Justice and Sustainable Development—completed their meeting on 8 March in Geneva, they came away with a sense of collaborative determination to address the world’s challenges with hope and with practical actions.
The sixty-eighth session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) will take place from 11 to 22 March 2024. Representatives of Member States, UN entities, and ECOSOC-accredited non-governmental organizations (NGOs) from all regions of the world will be engaged in person and online. The CSW is the largest United Nations gathering on gender equality and women’s empowerment.
In a speech before the Anglican Bishops’ Conference of Southern Africa, WCC moderator Bishop Dr Heinrich Bedford-Strohm reflected on “Salt of the earth and light of the world: Unity of the church as a sign for unity in the world.”
Twenty-four students and seven teachers from the Focolare Movement joined the World Council of Churches (WCC) for Ash Wednesday prayer services, and for an introduction to the ecumenical movement.
