Hendrew Lusey has never forgotten the words he first heard at a World Council of Churches (WCC) workshop on human sexuality in 2002. At that time, he had recently been appointed the regional coordinator for central Africa with the Ecumenical HIV and AIDS Initiative in Africa (EHAIA).
Dr Susan Parry has turned her vision of the âAIDS-competent churchâ into a reality that has helped thousands of people across southern Africa and the rest of the world whose lives are affected by HIV.
Religious diversity is an unavoidable reality today – and an opportunity, according to the participants of an interfaith seminar held in July at the World Council of Churches (WCC) Ecumenical Institute at Bossey outside Geneva, Switzerland.
Ideas for "bringing unity down to earth", "communicative action" and a "theology of the wilderness" were among the winning entries submitted for an essay contest on Prospects for Ecumenism in the 21st Century. The winners, two women and four men, come from Africa, Asia, Europe and North America.
La chapelle de l'Institut oecuménique de Bossey, près de Genève, où de jeunes adultes venus de cinq continents se sont rassemblés pour une méditation matinale, est un lieu de culte hors du commun. La lumière qui traverse les vitraux conçus par la communauté de Taizé, en France, éclaire une série de symboles religieux des plus disparates: icônes orthodoxes, croix luthérienne et tambour d'une communauté chrétienne africaine.
Six committed ecumenists, each with significant experience in specific fields of ecumenical endeavour, have been appointed to take up key leadership roles within the Geneva-based World Council of Churches (WCC). The newly appointed staff members will head five programmes plus a planning and integration office, all of which are the result of programmatic reshaping following the WCC 9th Assembly in 2006 .
