World Council of Churches

Faith Sebwa is a teenage Kenyan climate campaigner. Her poem, “The Path of Justice,” has been set to music and the song video has just launched, supporting the Hope for Children Through Climate Justice initiative.

The World Council of Churches invites all member churches and people of good will to join in a Prayer for the Peaceful Reunification of the Korean Peninsula.

From 1 September to 4 October, churches worldwide will mark the Season of Creation. It runs five weeks, and is given to prayer and action for the care of creation. The theme this year is Living Water, drawn from Ezekiel 47. Ahead of it, the Green Anglicans Movement, Africa, will hold a webinar on 4 August to introduce the season, where it came from, and the new Feast of Creation now kept at its start.

World Council of Churches (WCC) programme executive for Spiritual Life Rev. Dr Mikie Roberts attended the Provincial Synod of the Moravian Church of Great Britain and Ireland, held from 9-13 July at the Hayes Conference Centre, Swanwick, Derbyshire.

The Multi-Religious Council of Leaders, brought together by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and Religions for Peace, strengthens collective efforts across regions and faiths to address root causes by supporting global advocacy, conflict prevention, reconciliation, peacebuilding, and social cohesion initiatives. Bishop Prof. Dr Heinrich Bedford-Strohm, World Council of Churches (WCC) central committee moderator, who recently attended his first meeting with the council, reflects on its important role and how churches can contribute.

The World Council of Churches (WCC) is celebrating the life of H. E. Ambassador Yoftahe Demetros, former general administrator of the Eritrean Orthodox Tewahedo Church. 

In one of the largest dioceses of the Church of South India, climate justice begins in a vegetable garden

During a panel discussion on “Shared Sacred Flourishing,” religious leaders reflected on why words aren’t enough, what it means to exercise a prophetic voice, and the issue of the misuse of religion. 

World Council of Churches general secretary Rev. Prof. Dr Jerry Pillay extended joyful greetings upon the 50th Jubilee of the Ecumenical Association of Third World Theologians.

Rev. Wilfred Dimingu, a Methodist Church minister, is leading the Zimbabwe Council of Churches as its general secretary at a time when the signing of a controversial amendment has radically altered the political, judicial, and electoral processes in the southern African country.

Christian and Muslim leaders in Nigeria, with the support of the Interfaith Dialogue Forum for Peace and International Dialogue Centre – KAICIID, launched the Interfaith Code of Conduct at the Abuja Peace Conference. 

World Council of Churches general secretary Rev. Prof. Dr Jerry Pillay strongly condemned the reported drone strike on the Abbay Giyorgis St Arsema Unity Monastery in Ethiopia’s Amhara Region on 22 July. The strike reportedly killed two civilians and injured several others, including women who had gathered to prepare food for a religious commemoration.

World Council of Churches (WCC) general secretary Rev. Prof. Dr Jerry Pillay expressed grave concern over the seizure of the St Peter’s Evangelical Church and Synod Secretariat compound in Tehran, the eviction of its residents, and the reported interruption of worship at this historic church.

World Council of Churches general secretary Rev. Prof. Dr Jerry Pillay extended greetings to the Multistakeholder Interfaith Dialogue on Forced Displacement and Shared Sacred Flourishing, which will take place at the UN High Commissioner for Refugees headquarters on 28 July.

Bishop Prof. Dr Heinrich Bedford-Strohm, moderator of the World Council of Churches (WCC) central committee, will participate in a Multi-stakeholder Dialogue on Displacement and Shared Sacred Flourishing on 28 July, organized by Religions for Peace and the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). 

Rev. Canon Dr Carlton Turner of the Church in the Province of the West Indies serves with the Queen’s Foundation for Ecumenical Theological Education Birmingham, UK, and is a member of the World Council of Churches Faith and Order Commission. He took time to reflect on an international colloquium, "Decolonizing Ecumenical Hermeneutics,” held in June.

As an ecumenical solidarity visit to Zimbabwe drew to a close, a delegation led by World Council of Churches (WCC) general secretary Rev. Prof. Dr Jerry Pillay reiterated the importance of human rights, Christian unity, and the work and witness of churches. 

Materials for the North America-Turtle Island Regional Ecumenical Theological Institute are ready for the gathering, which will convene in Detroit and Toronto 3-16 August under the theme “Where Now for Visible Justice?”

The Evangelical Lutheran Church in Jordan and the Holy Land, with other churches and individuals across the world, are calling for the release of Natalie Abudayyeh, a 21-year-old university student who has now been held in Israeli prison for nearly two months. 

The World Council of Churches (WCC) hosted a consultation for Ethiopian church leaders from 6–10 July at the Ecumenical Institute at Bossey. The meeting aimed to strengthen church cooperation in Ethiopia and foster fellowship among WCC member churches in the country.