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Address of His-All Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew at the Al-Azhar and Muslim Council of Elders' Global Peace Conference, 28 April 2017.

Your right hand, O Lord, glorious in power

(Exodus 15:6)

Aujourd'hui, les chrétiens de nombreuses traditions différentes voient dans la fin de l'esclavage l’action de la main de Dieu. Pour eux, il s’agit d’une expérience commune de l'action salvatrice de Dieu qui apporte la liberté. C'est pourquoi le choix du chant de Moïse et de Miryam (Ex 15,1-21) comme thème de la Semaine de prière pour l'unité des chrétiens 2018 a été considéré comme le plus approprié.

Keynote address by Prof. Dr Isabel Apawo Phiri, WCC deputy general secretary, at the Consultative meeting towards developing the Ecumenical Health Strategy, 27 February 2017, Maseru, Lesotho.

Keynote address by Prof. Dr Isabel Apawo Phiri, WCC deputy general secretary, at the Consultative meeting towards developing the Ecumenical Health Strategy, 27 February 2017, Maseru, Lesotho.

Keynote address by Prof. Dr Isabel Apawo Phiri, WCC deputy general secretary, at the Consultative meeting towards developing the Ecumenical Health Strategy, 27 February 2017, Maseru, Lesotho.

Reflection at the World Council of Churches Staff Planning Days 6-9 March by the WCC General Secretary, Rev. Dr Olav Fykse Tveit.

Statement of the Participants in the Consultation on “Voices of Hope in a New Era”, Yangon, Myanmar, 16-20 January, 2017.

Theme song for the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity 2017​.
Text: Thomas Stubenrauch 2016, English: Neville Williamson © the authors Tune: Peter Sohren 1668, Halle 1704 (GL 463 / EG 506: Wenn ich, o Schöpfer, deine Macht)

Ecumenical Dinner – Keynote Address by Rev. Dr Olav Fykse Tveit, General Secretary, World Council of Churches
This day, Sept 1, has become a new moment in our ecumenical calendars in recent years as The Day of Creation. This year we have as World Council of Churches, together with the Ecumenical Patriarch and other ecumenical leaders and partners,issued a unique common ecumenical call to celebrate, to pray, and to care for God’s wonderful creation. This is a meaningful sign of our Christian unity, and offers me an entry to what I want to say about being One. To be One is about life, to be together; it is about finding new ways forward together; and it is about contributing to real hope.

WCC) general secretary Rev. Dr Olav Fykse Tveit was one of the keynote speakers along with government representatives and church leaders at the commemoration of the Soweto Uprising.

Reconciliation – the love of Christ compels us

(cf. 2 Corinthians 5:14-20)

C’est dans la perspective de l’anniversaire de 2017 que le Conseil des Églises en Allemagne (ACK), à l’invitation du Conseil œcuménique des Églises, a élaboré les textes pour la Semaine de prière pour l’unité des chrétiens de cette même année. Deux axes principaux se sont rapidement imposés aux rédacteurs du matériel: d’une part, il fallait qu’il soit une célébration de l’amour et de la grâce de Dieu, la « justification de l’humanité par la grâce seule », soulignant l’élément principal sur lequel se fondent les Églises issues de la Réforme de Martin Luther ; d’autre part, il devait également reconnaître la douleur causée par les profondes divisions qu’elle a générées et qui ont affecté l'Église, nommer ouvertement les fautes commises et offrir une opportunité de progresser vers la réconciliation. Enfin, c’est l’Exhortation apostolique du Pape François Evangelii Gaudium (« La joie de l’Évangile ») de 2013 qui a fourni le thème de cette année grâce à cette citation : « L’amour du Christ nous presse » (par. 9). Ce verset biblique (2 Co 5, 14), pris dans le cadre de l’ensemble du cinquième chapitre de la Deuxième épître aux Corinthiens, a permis au Comité allemand de formuler le thème de la Semaine de prière pour l’unité des chrétiens 2017.

Speech given by WCC general secretary Rev. Dr Olav Fykse Tveit at the Nordic Conference on Systematic Theology, Helsinki, on 9 January, 2016

Greetings by the Rev. Dr Olav Fykse Tveit on the 50th anniversary of the Joint Working Group between the Roman Catholic Church and the WCC.

Living Together in the Household of God:
Isabel Phiri's speech at CCA in Jakarta
A Theological Reflection
14th GENERAL ASSEMBLY CHRISTIAN CONFERENCE OF ASIA
D. T. NILES MEMORIAL LECTURE
Friday, May 22, 2015
20- 27 May 2015, Jakarta- Indonesia

The third biblical reflection of the Seven Weeks for Water 2015 is by Rommel F. Linatoc, the Christian Conference of Asia representative to the International Reference Group of the Ecumenical Water Network of the WCC. He is currently the executive secretary for Christian Unity and Ecumenical Relations at the National Council of Churches in the Philippines. He highlights the importance of using water imagery in our liturgies to talk about justice. He also challenges us to not limit our liturgical celebrations to Sunday services but that they should become a part of our life.

O chamado a proclamar os altos feitos do Senhor, dirigidos a todos os batizados. Este chamado constitui o tema da Semana de oração para a unidade cristã de 2016. Foi inspirando-se em dois versículos da Primeira Carta de São Pedro que membros de diversas Igrejas da Letônia prepararam os textos propostos para esta semana.

The calling shared by all the baptized to proclaim the mighty acts of the Lord forms the theme of the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity for 2016. Inspired by two verses from the First Letter of St Peter, members of different churches in Latvia prepared the resources for the week.