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Rev. Dr Hans-Ruedi Weber dies at 97

During his long career, Weber, who passed away on 18 October, made the Bible come alive for thousands of people through Bible studies that he coordinated with groups from many different cultures, contexts and situations.

Learning English, Bossey students “can connect with each other”

Moving forward amid the COVID-19 pandemic, seven students were able to attend a one-month course at the Bossey Ecumenical Institute, from 3 August to 2 September, to strengthen their English-speaking skills. The short course was designed to help them succeed in their upcoming post-graduate ecumenical studies.

Bossey students testimony

On 17 June, six new master students finished their yearlong studies with the graduation ceremony of the World Council of Churches (WCC) Ecumenical Institute at Château de Bossey. WCC News met with them at the graduation.

Pour les étudiants, décider d’étudier à Bossey est «difficile», mais ils quittent l’Institut avec une «famille» et la certitude que «l’unité chrétienne peut être éprouvée»

Les étudiants diplômés de l’Institut de Bossey, niché au creux des montagnes, au bord du lac Léman, reconnaissent qu’il n’est pas facile de prendre la décision d’étudier à l’Institut du COE, mais ils forment désormais une famille, et ont acquis la certitude «que l’unité chrétienne peut être éprouvée».

Bossey students learn English as a tool for ecumenical formation

Every summer the Ecumenical Institute at Bossey runs an intensive English course used to equip students from all over the world for further ecumenical formation. About 15 students come to the institute in June for almost three months of full-time English study. The majority of the students continue in September with certificate and masters programmes in ecumenical studies, which are conducted in English.

Les étudiant-e-s se réunissent à Bossey pour un dialogue interreligieux

Les jeunes étudiant-e-s du monde entier ont été accueilli-e-s mardi à l’Institut œcuménique de Bossey du Conseil œcuménique des Églises (COE), en Suisse, pour le certificat d’études avancées en études interreligieuses.
Le thème de l’année académique 2018/2019 est: «S’engager pour des sociétés justes et participatives – l’appartenance au judaïsme, au christianisme et à l’islam».

WCC facilitates conversations on ecumenism at the Kirchentag

Conversations at the World Council of Churches (WCC) exhibition booth at the Kirchentag showed there is a growing interest in ecumenical movement among German churches. The topics of a particularly high interest were the Thursdays in Black campaign and studies at the Ecumenical institute in Bossey.

WCC pays tribute to ecumenist pioneer

On Monday 3 June the WCC hosts a half-day seminar on the legacy of one of ecumenism’s leading figures, archishop Nathan Söderblom, followed by a discussion on today’s ecumenical challenges.

Paving the way for ecumenical studies, learning English in Bossey

Each year students from all over the world arrive at Bossey near Geneva for a three-month language training course to pave their way for ecumenical studies that follow on straight after. “The title captures the goal of the course,” says Father Lawrence Iwuamadi, the Nigerian priest who studied at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome and is academic dean of the Ecumenical Institute.

#WCC70: Nathan Söderblom, ecumenical pioneer

The archbishop Dr Nathan Söderblom, an ecumenical forerunner and messenger of peace in war-torn Europe, challenged a deeply divided Christianity 100 years ago. Against all odds, the Stockholm Conference on Life and Work in 1925 gathered church leaders at a scale the world had not seen since Nicaea 1600 years earlier. And it did not end there.