Events in Northeast Asia this year “dramatise how much the region and the world still live in the shadow of mass destruction”, says the WCC.

Youth representing ecumenical networks were vocal in addressing social, economic and environmental issues at the World Youth Day.

Uganda's Christians have a tradition of speaking up for justice and peace which needs to be taken forward in a new era, says Canon Grace Kaiso.

Religious faith and practice can make the most committed and powerful contributions to reconciliation and to economic justice. It can also use texts and traditions to avoid responsibility and to commit selfish or harmful actions, says Dr Olav Fykse Tveit, General Secretary of the World Council of Churches. Speaking to the UN, he offers an inspiring yet honest vision of the way churches and other religious communities can make a vital contribution to building justice and peace for the whole of humanity, while being held necessarily accountable before God and the world they are intended to serve.