World Council of Churches

The Patriarchs and Heads of Churches in Jerusalem proclaim to the world an Easter message of life and hope. “It is the same message first announced to the women who had come to mourn at Christ's tomb,” the text notes. “The Lord had risen indeed!”

The World Council of Churches (WCC) organized a joint seminar on 16 April at the National Council of Churches in India in collaboration with the India Peace Center, Nagpur, India. The seminar launched a series of webinars on land, water, and food to address climate justice through a nexus approach.

The World Council of Churches (WCC) Africa Regional Programme Office, Abuja, in collaboration with the Africa Network for Environment and Economic Justice, convened a two-day Human Rights Training Workshop for church leaders and partners from the Niger Delta. 

World Council of Churches general secretary Rev. Prof. Dr Jerry Pillay will attend the Presbyterian Church in Taiwan 70th General Assembly from 22-24 April. He will also be joining in commemorating the 160th Anniversary of the Presbyterian Church in Taiwan

In the lead-up to the World Council of Churches (WCC) 6th World Conference on Faith and Order, the Faith and Order Commission—together with the Ecumenical Patriarchate and the Lutheran World Federation—will host a webinar titled “Bridging East and West: A Joint Statement on Filioque” on 28 April.

The National Council of Churches in Korea, in its 2025 Easter prayer, expresses a vision of the whole world walking in the path of new life.

World Council of Churches (WCC) general secretary Rev. Prof. Dr Jerry Pillay, in a video message, invites all to support the vision for a common Easter date among Christians from all church traditions. 

In a message for Easter 2025, and on the second anniversary away from Episcopal Anglican Cathedral Khartoum due to the war in Sudan, Most Rev. Ezekiel Kondo, archbishop and bishop of Khartoum, reflected that many are celebrating Easter away from their loved ones. 

Dr Suhaila Tarazi, director of Al Ahli Arab Hospital (Ahli) in Gaza City, shared her reflections during Holy Week—the dire situations facing the patients, what gives her hope, and her Easter message to all people of goodwill across the world. 

A training hosted 15 April by the World Council of Churches (WCC) helped church leaders realize that climate litigation isn’t necessarily about winning individual cases—it’s about changing government policies and corporate behavior. 

World Council of Churches (WCC) general secretary Rev. Prof. Dr Jerry Pillay expresses deep shock over recent attacks in North Darfur, Sudan, particularly the assaults on displacement camps in Zamzam and Abu Shouk, and the town of El Fasher.

During a leadership summit held 9-11 April in Nairobi, Kenya, the World Council of Churches (WCC) offered a listening ear, accurate information, and a sense of solidarity for people living with HIV, who are facing a sudden lack of resources.

World Council of Churches general secretary Rev. Prof. Dr Jerry Pillay extended greetings to all Jewish communities around the world on the joyous occasion of Passover. 

As the Easter calendar coincides this year for Western and Eastern churches, theologians, clerics, and ordinary Christians in Africa have viewed the occurrence as a boost for efforts towards Christian unity.

The Sisters of St Joseph of Peace, Catholic nuns located in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey (US), have spent the past four years filing shareholder resolutions related to Citigroup, urging the parent company of one of the world’s largest investment banks to rethink its financial ties to fossil fuel projects that harm Indigenous communities.

Faith leaders warn that the global concentration of wealth and power has reached "unprecedented" and "alarming" levels, exacerbating inequality, undermining democracy, and accelerating climate catastrophe. The ecumenical call to action came in a joint communique issued today following a three-day meeting in Geneva of the Ecumenical Panel on a New International Financial and Economic Architecture (NIFEA).

Yusef Daher, coordinator of the Jerusalem Liaison Office of the World Council of Churches in Jerusalem, earned the Menno Simons Sermon Award for 2025. 

A "Faith and Order Update," presenting some of the main areas of the work of the World Council of Churches (WCC) Commission on Faith and Order, has been published as the WCC looks towards the  Sixth World Conference on Faith and Order later in 2025, and in the year that marks the 1700th anniversary of the Council of Nicaea.

Each year, this year for the fifth time, Shia Muslim students from the Risalat International Institute (co-located in Iran and in Great Britain), under the direction of Dr M A Shomali, joined the Bossey Ecumenical Institute students for dialogue, prayer, and fellowship.

Exploring how churches can do more for climate justice, the World Council of Churches (WCC), in cooperation with the National Council of Churches in Bangladesh, organized a climate litigation training in Dhaka, Bangladesh, on 11 April.