In June in Bonn, Germany, the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change convened its intercessional meeting between the yearly Conference of the Parties. These meetings are to keep the process going to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions and to construct mechanisms for climate finance.
The Eighth Buddhist-Christian Colloquium, organized by the Vatican’s Dicastery for Interreligious Dialogue in collaboration with Preah Sihanouk Raja Buddhist University and the Catholic Church in the Kingdom of Cambodia, released a communique entitled “Buddhists and Christians Working Together for Peace through Reconciliation and Resilience.”
An Armenian Heritage Conference, organized recently by the World Council of Churches and the Swiss Protestant Church, held in Bern, Switzerland, focused on the protection of Armenian religious and cultural heritage in Artsakh/Nagorno-Karabakh.
An Armenian Heritage Conference, organized by the World Council of Churches and the Swiss Protestant Church, held recently in Bern, Switzerland, focused on the protection of Armenian religious and cultural heritage in Artsakh/Nagorno-Karabakh.
The World Council of Churches (WCC) brought faith-based perspectives to the Fourth International Conference on Financing for Development, a major United Nations meeting held in Seville, Spain. The conference brings together world leaders to discuss how to fund global development goals, including fighting poverty and climate change.
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 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.
Faith-based groups, collaborating with their partners, including the World Council of Churches, will be advocating for digital justice at the “World Summit on Information Society +20,” to be hosted by the International Telecommunication Union from 7-11 July in Geneva.
In an address to students at Yonsei University in Seoul, South Korea, on 2 July, Peter Prove, director of the World Council of Churches (WCC) Commission of the Churches on International Affairs, spoke on “The Rise of Christian Far-Right Extremism and the Response of the Global Ecumenical Community.”
During an ecumenical conference on 30 June in Seoul, South Korea, Peter Prove, director of the World Council of Churches (WCC) Commission of the Churches on International Affairs, shared a keynote speech on “The Rise of Christian Far-Right Extremism and the Response of the Global Ecumenical Community.”
A World Council of Churches (WCC) minute on the official US federal holiday of Juneteenth noted that the holiday not only celebrates the emancipation of formerly enslaved people of African descent in the US-North America context, but also “marks the memory of the broader global history/herstory of the transatlantic (‘Middle Passage’) extraction of African peoples and natural resources taken from Africa that still has consequences today, including the racialized impact of the debt and climate crisis.”
With prayer, reflections, and deep commitments from those gathered at the World Council of Churches (WCC) central committee meeting, the WCC began an Ecumenical Decade of Climate Justice Action on 21 June.
The Prophetic Witness for Life, Justice, and Peace Conference and Seminars concluded in Johannesburg on 16 June, marking a moment of reawakening and recommitment for church leaders and partners across southern Africa. Participants pledged to transform the insights and prophetic calling of their gathering into tangible action within their congregations, communities, and countries.
On 15 June, commemorating the 40th anniversary of the Kairos Document and the 1976 Soweto Uprising, church leaders from across denominations and southern African countries embarked on a pilgrimage of reflection, lament, and discernment.
Participants in an ongoing “Prophetic Witness for Life, Justice, and Peace Conference” on 14 June in Johannesburg, South Africa, broke into seminars focusing on many facets of justice—climate, economic, racial, gender, and health.
Participants in the World Council of Churches Commission of the Churches on International Affairs (CCIA) 60th meeting in Athens, Greece had a unique opportunity of encounter at the Ecumenical Refugee Programme “Synyparxis,” operating shelters for unaccompanied minors across Greece.
The World Council of Churches (WCC) is extending condolences to the people of the Austrian city of Graz, after 10 people died in a school shooting, along with the alleged shooter.
World Council of Churches (WCC) general secretary Rev. Prof. Dr Jerry Pillay welcomed the United Nations Ocean Conference being held in Nice, France, from 9-13 June under the theme, “Accelerating action and mobilizing all actors to conserve and sustainably use the ocean.”
The United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP30) will be held in Belém, Brazil from 10-21 November 2025. Rev. Romeu Martini, Evangelical Church of the Lutheran Confession in Brazil, shared how climate change is affecting communities, and his expectations for COP30.
The World Council of Churches (WCC) had input into the 49th Session of Universal Periodic Review, a process in which UN member states undergo a peer review of their human rights records.
