CH: Ecumenical solidarity: “Sharing is what makes us Christians”
Fr Rex R. B. Reyes, Jr. vividly remembers what he calls “the fateful morning of 8 November” 2013. While attending the World Council of Churches (WCC) 10th Assembly in the Republic of Korea, he received...
View ArticleCH: Churches to continue their “pilgrimage of justice and peace” in the world
Inspired by the theme “pilgrimage of justice and peace”, the Central Committee of the World Council of Churches (WCC), a chief governing body of the Council, has set directions for the work of the...
View ArticleAT: Kirchen an der Seite der Leidenden und an den Rand Gedrängten
Im Zeichen der Solidarität mit den Leidenden und an den Rand Gedrängten stand am Donnerstag in der Wiener evangelisch-lutherischen Superintendentur die Vollversammlung des Ökumenischen Rates der...
View ArticleD: German conference pledges to strengthen work with churches in South Korea...
Inspired by the theme “a pilgrimage of justice and peace” – a call issued by the World Council of Churches (WCC) 10th Assembly in 2013 – a conference in Germany affirmed the commitment of working...
View ArticleWorld: Two Latin American churches speak about diversity, communion and urban...
In significant events last week, the Evangelical Church of the River Plate (IERP) and the Evangelical Church of the Lutheran Confession in Brazil (IECLB), two member churches of the World Council of...
View ArticleD: WCC general secretary reflects on 25th anniversary of the fall of the...
Twenty-five years ago, on 9 November 1989, the Berlin Wall fell. This came about through a “movement of many people who demonstrated peacefully in the streets,” said World Council of Churches (WCC)...
View ArticleEUR: Cyprus: churches pray for unity of the island
While the Church of Cyprus, a member of the World Council of Churches (WCC), seeks unity for its island, together with other churches in the country, it recognizes that the challenge is to first heal...
View ArticleCH: WCC advisory group to promote gender justice
A gender advisory group representing member churches of the World Council of Churches (WCC) has begun working by developing procedures and policies to help the WCC in accomplishing gender justice in...
View ArticleS: WCC launches global ecumenical network for advocacy for just peace
To build just and sustainable peace, engaging churches, ecumenical organizations and civil society, the World Council of Churches (WCC) has launched an Ecumenical Peace Advocacy Network (EPAN) at its...
View ArticleWorld: Eco-feminist perspectives shared at the WSCF assembly in Colombia
Dr Fulata Mbano-Moyo, the World Council of Churches (WCC) programme executive for Women in Church and Society, called on the movement of Christian students to reclaim its radical transforming nature...
View ArticleD: WCC general secretary urges a “spirituality of justice and peace”
Christians need a “spirituality of resistance” to face oppression, violence and experiences of defeat, the general secretary of the World Council of Churches (WCC), the Rev. Dr Olav Fykse Tveit, said...
View ArticleWelt: WCC Executive Committee gathers in Armenia to map the ecumenical...
Introducing 2015 as “a sacred year in the life of our people and our land,” Karekin II, Supreme Patriarch and Catholicos of all Armenians, welcomed the 20-member Executive Committee of the World...
View ArticleCH/ROM: Future directions are charted by WCC Faith and Order Commission
Meeting from 17 to 24 June, the newly reconstituted Commission on Faith and Order of the World Council of Churches (WCC) has begun to define its principal trajectories for ecumenical study and common...
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