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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.

Le Conseil œcuménique des Églises (COE) et la Conférence des Églises de toute l’Afrique (CETA) invitent les jeunes Africaines et Africains à participer à un concours d’essai dans le cadre de la publication de la région Afrique sur le Pèlerinage de justice et de paix. Toute personne âgée au maximum de 35 ans et vivant sur le continent ou dans la diaspora peut envoyer son texte avant le 15 octobre 2019.

A new campaign page has been launched for individuals and organizations to support the 2020 Global Media Monitoring Project (GMMP), the largest and longest-running research and advocacy initiative on gender equality in the world’s news media.

Une nouvelle page de promotion vient d’être lancée à destination des personnes et des organisations qui souhaitent soutenir le Projet mondial de monitorage des médias (GMMP) 2020, la plus importante et la plus ancienne initiative de recherche et de plaidoyer au monde sur l’égalité des sexes dans la presse et le journalisme.

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.

Comment pourrait-on aborder sérieusement le thème de cette Assemblée, «Le désordre humain et le dessein de Dieu», quand ce lundi après-midi Karl Barth agite un doigt de Herr Professor à la bâloise, arguant qu’il y avait erreur et que l’ordre devait être inversé: «Le dessein de Dieu» d’abord, puis seulement «le désordre humain»?

Les relations entre les catholiques et les protestants au niveau local en Indonésie orientale ne sont pas aussi complexes qu’à l’occasion de débats sur le dogme à des échelons plus élevés de l’Église, déclare une pasteure de l’Église protestante des Moluques.

Rev. Prof. Dr Rudolf von Sinner, professor of Systematic Theology, Ecumenism and Interreligious Dialogue as well as moderator of World Council of Churches (WCC) Ecumenical Education and Formation Commission, offered a public lecture on 13 April at the Ecumenical Centre in Geneva as part of the WCC’s ongoing observance of its 70th anniversary this year.

If women will not support each other to step up to the pulpit or become engaged in politics, then gender equality will not be a priority issue for leaders both in the church and in government, says Eppie Marecheau, Christian educator and president of the Christian Council for Caribbean Women. In July, she participated in a seminar organized by the Pan African Women’s Ecumenical Empowerment Network (PAWEEN), at the WCC's Ecumenical Institute Bossey.

As the Global Ecumenical Theological Institute 2017 (GETI’17) drew to a close in Berlin on 31 May, participants rejoiced in a sense of renewed ecumenical energy, and of fellowship across traditions, as they prepare to return to their home contexts.

During Kirchentag, a Protestant church festival in Germany, vice-moderator of the WCC Commission of Ecumenical Education and Formation Prof. Dr Esther Mombo visited the World Council of Churches (WCC) booth, where she talked with Marianne Ejdersten, WCC director of Communication.

“We’ve seen in the case of refugees, how the church takes a strong standpoint in welcoming those who have fled. But it isn’t always so easy in the congregations. There are many who feel fear, as we receive not only refugees but sometimes also people of other faiths. In this case, we can see a gap between what the church says, and what is actually lived.”

«Bossey m’a ouvert l’esprit et a élargi mes horizons.» Ces mots prononcés par un ancien élève rencontré le mois dernier au cours d’une conférence ont ému la pasteure Dagmar Heller, doyenne de l’Institut œcuménique de Bossey. Pour elle, ils reflètent ce qui se produit à Bossey depuis 70 ans: une expérience bouleversante qui transforme les étudiantes et étudiants en responsables de leur communauté locale et du mouvement œcuménique mondial.

Last Sunday, the “Twin Consultation” on “Reformation – Education – Transformation” wrapped up at the Francke Foundations in Halle, Germany. Held six months after the first consultation in São Leopoldo, Brazil, the five-day session in Halle became a vibrant meeting point and a juncture between different religious contexts from the global North and South.

More than 120 people from throughout the world have gathered in the eastern German city of Halle to reflect on how insights from the Protestant Reformation 500 years ago can contribute to transforming the world today.

Plus de 120 personnes du monde entier se sont réunies à Halle, dans l'est de l'Allemagne, pour réfléchir à la mesure dans laquelle les conceptions de la Réforme protestante intervenue il y a 500 ans pouvaient contribuer à transformer le monde actuel.

Twenty-seven international students from the Bossey Ecumenical Institute, Switzerland, are embarking on a future of ecumenism, dialogue and unity that began with months of intense study and fellowship.

For public theology, “the essential and pressing task of the churches and theological education is to foster love, dialogue, forgiveness, reconciliation” says Prof. Dr Rudolf Von Sinner.