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World Council of Churches acting general secretary Rev. Prof. Dr Ioan Sauca delivered a lecture during the first edition of the “Bahrain Dialogue Forum: East and West for Human Coexistence” held 3-4 November.

World Council of Churches acting general secretary Rev. Prof. Dr Ioan Sauca will deliver a lecture during the first edition of the “Bahrain Dialogue Forum: East and West for Human Coexistence” to be held 3-4 November.

On 5 July, the first Syrian and Iraqi refugees arrived legally in France from Lebanon in what marks an expansion of the Humanitarian Corridors project founded by by the Federation of Protestant Churches in Italy (FCEI), the Sant’Egidio religious community and the Italian government.

For the sake of peace, church leaders in Jerusalem are calling to maintain the historical status quo on the historical designation allowing access to al-Aqsa Mosque and its courtyard, as well as other Holy Sites in the city.

Rev. Dr Hielke Wolters is leaving the WCC after serving for nine years - the last seven years as associate general secretary - but he is not leaving the ecumenical movement to which he has been dedicated since his student days. Officially is he going to retire, but only on the paper. He has many thoughts and plans to realize as he moves back to the Netherlands to serve, in one way or another, the church or the wider ecumenical movement. Wolters said to WCC News with a smile: “I’m open for any suggestion and I know that God will lead me in the right direction when that time comes.”

Le pasteur Hielke Wolters quitte le COE après y avoir travaillé pendant neuf ans, notamment au poste de secrétaire général associé ces sept dernières années, mais il ne quitte pas le mouvement œcuménique auprès duquel il est engagé depuis qu’il est étudiant. Officiellement, il prend sa retraite, mais seulement sur le papier. Il retourne aux Pays-Bas et a beaucoup d’idées et de projets pour servir, d’une manière ou d’une autre, l’Église ou le mouvement œcuménique au sens large. Le pasteur a déclaré au centre de presse du COE, avec un sourire: «je suis ouvert à toutes les suggestions et je sais que Dieu me guidera dans la bonne direction le moment venu.»

Hope in a Pilgrimage of Justice and Peace formed the integral thread for proceedings at the meeting of the Central Committee of the WCC in Trondheim, Norway this week. The 2016 meeting took place 22-28 June, the second gathering since the Central Committee was elected at the WCC 10th Assembly in Busan, Republic of Korea in 2013.

L’espérance en un Pèlerinage de justice et de paix constituait le fil conducteur des travaux du Comité central du Conseil œcuménique des Églises (COE), qui s’est réuni à Trondheim, en Norvège.

After traveling to Ben Gurion Airport in Tel Aviv in the last week for a climate justice meeting, World Council of Churches staff and partners were detained or deported in a manner that WCC general secretary Rev. Dr Olav Fykse Tveit terms both unprecedented and intolerable.

À leur arrivée à l’aéroport Ben-Gourion la semaine dernière, pour assister à une réunion sur la justice climatique, des membres du personnel et des partenaires du COE ont été placés en détention ou expulsés dans des conditions sans précédent que le pasteur Olav Fykse Tveit, secrétaire général du COE, qualifie d’intolérables.

At the Wider Outlook Works Festival, as people observed the 500th anniversary of the Reformation, the WCC general secretary spoke about repentance and a change to a better direction.

Au Weite Wirkt Festival (Festival «Voir loin pour mieux accueillir»), qui célébrait le 500e anniversaire de la Réforme, le pasteur Olav Fykse Tveit, secrétaire général du COE, a parlé de repentance et de changement pour le mieux.

Azad is a refugee from the north of Aleppo, Syria and is currently in The Jungle camp in Calais, France. “It’s hard here” says Azad, and then falls quiet. “People are hungry, cold, afraid and we can’t do anything”. He’s sitting cross-legged on the floor of a small shelter.

Azad* est un réfugié originaire d’Alep en Syrie. Il se trouve actuellement dans le camp de réfugiés qu’on appelle la «jungle» de Calais, dans le nord de la France. «C’est dur ici», confie Azad, avant de retomber dans le silence. «Les gens ont faim, froid et peur et on ne peut rien faire». Il est assis en tailleur sur le sol d’un petit abri.

Commemorating the Armenian Genocide of 1915-23 was to have been the principal focus of the service of Sunday morning prayer on 15 November in the cathedral church of Saint-Pierre at the summit of Geneva’s old town. Following terror attacks in Beirut and Paris killing and wounding hundreds of civilians over the preceding days, the prayers of the Protestant Church of Geneva and the WCC Executive Committee took on a new dimension.