World Council of Churches

World Council of Churches general secretary Rev. Prof. Dr Jerry Pillay offered a joyful congratulations to the new moderator of the ACT Alliance Governing Board, Nicolás Rosenthal. 

As COP29 opened today in Baku, Azerbaijan, the World Council of Churches (WCC) held an online ecumenical service where Rev. Charissa Suli, president of the Uniting Church in Australia, delivered a sermon urging decisive action for climate justice. Drawing from scripture and the wisdom of Indigenous communities, Suli called on global leaders to move beyond incremental changes toward profound transformation in their approach to climate stewardship.

The theological legacy and ecumenical vision of the Orthodox theologian Elder Metropolitan John Zizioulas of Pergamon, who died in 2023 aged 92, has been remembered at a conference in Istanbul organized under the patronage of the Ecumenical Patriarch, Bartholomew I.