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  • 30 Jun 2008
    Orthodox Church women welcome participation and seek more change

    Women in the Orthodox Church have reached significant milestones regarding their participation in church life, but many of their concerns have not yet been fully addressed, an international gathering of Orthodox women has stated.

  • 27 Jun 2008
    Churches warned that unity is needed to face global challenges

    Challenges facing Christians today are too strong for a divided church, said World Council of Churches (WCC) general secretary the Rev Dr Samuel Kobia in Egypt recently, as he called for church unity both locally and globally.

  • 26 Jun 2008
    Pacific is focus of the churches' anti-violence initiative

    Churches around the world will pray for the Pacific as an international church initiative against violence focuses attention on the region this year. Pacific churches themselves will work together on how best to promote peace.

  • 25 Jun 2008
    Global church team to share creative nonviolence experience in Germany

    Witnesses for creative peacemaking from member churches of the World Council of Churches (WCC) in Burundi, Brazil, Greece and the United States will travel to Germany, 27 June - 4 July, to exchange experiences in overcoming violence.

  • 24 Jun 2008
    World churches' bodies call for urgent action on Zimbabwe

    Two international ecumenical Christian bodies have called on the UN, the South African Development Community and the African Union "to increase [their] efforts to address the rapidly deteriorating situation in Zimbabwe".

  • 18 Jun 2008
    Churches worldwide invited to pray for Zimbabwe

    Churches worldwide are being invited to mark a day of prayer for Zimbabwe on Sunday 22 June, as the beginning of a season of prayer for the people and government of the African country, which is facing a critical time in its history.

  • 10 Jun 2008
    Theological understanding vital for facing the future, churches told

    If the churches are adequately to face the challenges of the C21st century, theological education rooted in a broad encounter with contemporary life is vital, a congress of global educators meeting in Greece has been told.

  • 7 Jun 2008
    Scottish churches unite around plea for Israel-Palestine peace

    Congregations of the Church of Scotland (Presbyterian) and the Roman Catholic Church in Scotland, the country's two largest traditions, are being encouraged to make 8 June a Sunday pledged to peace in Israel and Palestine.

  • 6 Jun 2008
    Need, greed and the global food crisis

    The plea "Give us this day our daily bread" needs to be heard by political leaders meeting in Rome on the global food crisis, says Jean Blaylock, looking at the response of world church representatives.

  • 6 Jun 2008
    Church call for action on greed-driven global food crisis

    With an estimated 850 million people suffering from hunger worldwide, nine out of ten of them in developing countries, "the scandal of hunger demands the immediate attention of the churches", affirms a new statement from the WCC.