Category - world council of churches

December 9, 2016

'Together we are stronger', says WCC chief in Bethlehem

Speaking in Bethlehem the General Secretary of the World Council of Churches has reflected on the light from the very first Christmas in the very same town, and what that light means in a global search for just peace.
September 24, 2016

Expert focus on religious freedom, literacy and diplomacy

Advancement of religious literacy and religious literacy in international diplomacy is increasingly needed, an expert panel on religious freedom and international diplomacy declared this week.
April 27, 2016

WCC panel discusses ideas on European identity

A panel of religious leaders, policymakers and journalists met on 20 April 2016 at the Ecumenical Centre in Geneva to discuss questions including the idea of a 'European identity' and the contributions made by faith communities and secularism.
February 14, 2015

International church bodies welcome Ukraine peace moves

International church bodies have welcomed the ceasefire agreement for eastern Ukraine negotiated in Minsk and announced recently.
February 12, 2015

Christians in Asia strengthen commitment to collaboration

Two major ecumenical Christian bodies in Asia have new leaders and will looking to extend the work of justice and peace in the region
February 4, 2015

Churches condemn annulling of Dominican citizenship rights

A court decision annulling the citizenship of some 200,000 Dominicans of Haitian ancestry has been condemned by church leaders.
February 3, 2015

Richard von Weizsäcker: a voice for justice and peace

Former German President Richard von Weizsäcker, died on 31 January 2015. He was 94 years old. "He will be remembered for his voice of justice and peace," said the General Secretary of the World Council of Churches.
January 31, 2015

Urgent calls to protect church leaders in Colombia

Serious death threats to human rights defenders, many of them church leaders, have been made by a paramilitary group in Colombia.
January 30, 2015

Faith groups assess COP20 climate talks en route to Paris

Intergovernmental and civic climate change action has been explored by a faith communities' panel hosted by the World Council of Churches.
January 28, 2015

How the ecumenical movement helped mobilise ecological protest in East Germany

Action of the World Council of Churches more than four decades ago raised the profile of environmental issues, and in the process helping to galvanise the ecological movement in communist East Germany, says Ekklesia associate Dr Stephen Brown. This became the soil for the independent ecology groups in the 1980s as one of the forms of dissent that culminated in East Germany’s 1989 peaceful revolution.