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Experts in digital justice, communicators, and media representatives gathered for a side event to the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS)+20 on 8 July. The summit is being held in Geneva from 7-11 July.

Rev. Merlyn Hyde Riley, vice moderator of the World Council of Churches (WCC) central committee, on behalf of WCC general secretary Rev. Prof. Dr Jerry Pillay, shared a message with the quinquennial congress of the Baptist World Alliance, convening in Brisbane, Australia, 7-12 July, under the theme “Living the Good News.”

Churches and Christian communities worldwide are invited to use the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity 2026 resources to pray together for the unity among churches throughout the year.

In an address before the Diakonia World Federation on 8 July in Tanzania, World Council of Churches general secretary Rev. Prof. Dr Jerry Pillay reflected on “Dancing the Faith, Drumming Up Hope: Ecumenical Diakonia and Our Global Crisis.”

In a letter, World Council of Churches (WCC) general secretary Rev. Prof. Dr Jerry Pillay expressed gratitude for the service of Susan C. Johnson, national bishop, Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada. 

On 2 July, Refcemi, the Coptic Orthodox Office for Advocacy and Public Policy, alongside communications agency Jersey Road, hosted an inaugural “Faith In the Media" event at The Sanctuary, St Andrew by the Wardrobe Church in London, inviting members of UK national press and UK church leaders to hear findings of “The Christianity in the Media 2025 report.” The “Faith in the Media” event aims to become an annual event that will provide a space to examine representation of faith in UK media, with its focus this year on Christianity.

The Latin American and Caribbean Nicaea 1700 Years conference took place in Guatemala City 1-3 July. Faith, unity, and hope is the theme that brought together more than 80 people from 15 countries across the continent.

The World Council of Churches Commission on World Mission and Evangelism and the Council for World Mission, hosted by the Presbyterian Church in Malaysia, are organizing a conference on “Youth and Evangelism: Empowering the next generation of church leaders,” from 24-28 August in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

The World Council of Churches (WCC) is involved in many different aspects of the 59th session of the UN Human Rights Council, currently convening in Geneva from 16 June to 9 July. 

As ten students began their summertime inter-religious studies on 30 June, at the World Council of Churches (WCC) Ecumenical Institute at Bossey, they prepared to encounter one another in honesty and humility.