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Lecture - Speech

Signs of Wholeness in Our Fragmented World General Assembly of the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)

The Peter Ainslie and Forrest Reed Lecture, 13 July 2025

Rev. Prof. Dr Jerry Pillay
General secretary
World Council of Churches

14 July 2025

General Secretary

Buddhist-Christian Colloquium focuses on peace, reconciliation, resilience

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.”

10 July 2025

From Monterrey to Seville and Beyond - UN Finance

Faith leaders demand financial justice at UN development conference

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.

07 July 2025

Nicaea 1700 years in Latin America and Caribbean meeting shares hope for a space that opens horizons

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.

04 July 2025

The United Nations Office in Geneva, Switzerland, housed at the historic Palais des Nations, Photo: Ivars Kupcis/WCC

WCC has key involvement in 59th session of the UN Human Rights Council

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.

03 July 2025

WCC mourns passing of Dr Paul Ladouceur, Canadian Orthodox theologian

The World Council of Churches is celebrating the life and mourning the loss of theologian and longstanding member of the Canadian Council of Churches Dr Paul Ladouceur. He passed away on 13 June.

02 July 2025

The Sixth World Conference for Faith and Order planning meeting

Preparatory meeting convenes in lead-up to WCC Sixth World Conference on Faith and Order

A planning meeting for the World Council of Churches (WCC) Sixth World Conference on Faith and Order and the Global Ecumenical Theological Institute 2025 (GETI) convened in St Bishoy Monastery in Egypt 28-29 June. The hybrid gathering focused on logistics, a stewards programme, communications, church and cultural visits, and budget.

01 July 2025

Statement: public statement

Statement on Threats to Peace and People’s Security: A Kairos Moment for Just Peace

Statement on Threats to Peace and People’s Security of the Central Committee of the World Council of Churches, meeting in Johannesburg, South Africa, on 18-24 June 2025.

24 June 2025

Central Committee

Statement: public statement

Statement on the 80th Anniversary of the United Nations

Statement on the 80th Anniversary of the United Nations by the Central Committee of the World Council of Churches, meeting in Johannesburg, South Africa, on 18-24 June 2025.

24 June 2025

Central Committee

Three young women pictured dressed in white and performaing a drama where one person closes her eyes, extends her arm into the air, while holding a microphone, the other two looking on.

Going back 1700 years, what might we hear about courage and Christianity?

On 20 June, young people at the World Council of Churches (WCC) central committee plenary brought the governing body back in time 1700 years, to when the first Ecumenical Council had just concluded.

20 June 2025

Report

Report of the General Secretary to the WCC Central Committee, June 2025

Report of the WCC general secretary Rev. Prof. Dr Jerry Pillay to the WCC Central Committee meeting in Johannesburg, South Africa on 18-24 June 2025.

18 June 2025

General Secretary

Group Visits to the Ecumenical Center First week of June June

WCC visitors discuss challenges to human rights, ways toward peace

Visitors to the World Council of Churches (WCC) doing the first two weeks in June delved into many topics, from human rights, to combatting xenophobia, to engaging young people in ecumenism.

16 June 2025

Event

Webinar - Unity of the Church: Anglican Perspectives and Ecumenical Responses

16 June 2025

As part of a preparatory series for the upcoming WCC Faith and Order World Conference—themed “Where Now for Visible Unity?”—the third webinar of the series brings together theologians and church leaders from across traditions to discuss one of the most ambitious Anglican documents on unity in recent decades: “The Nairobi-Cairo Proposals: Renewing the Instruments of the Anglican Communion.”

Online

Message

WCC greetings to the LWF Council, June 2025

11 June 2025

General Secretary

Interview

Bishop Jonas Jonson with Acropolis of Athens in the background

Bishop Jonas Jonson: Speak peace and hope to people

How can churches maintain their prophetic and critical voice, at the same time speaking peace and hope to people? Why is unity among Christians still relevant today, and can we still trust international law and international organizations? Bishop Jonas Jonson speaks on the relevance of the 1925 Life and Work conference in Stockholm, which resulted in establishing both the World Council of Churches (WCC) and its Commission of the Churches on International Affairs (CCIA), recently gathered for its 60th meeting in Athens, Greece.

05 June 2025

Visit of Students from Lutheran Campus Ministry, Nebraska, USA

WCC welcomes array of visitors

The World Council of Churches (WCC) welcomed an array of visitors in May, all receiving a welcome and introduction to the work of the WCC.

04 June 2025

La revista del CMI sobre diálogo interreligioso se centra en la reconfiguración de la labor interreligiosa

El último número de Current Dialogue –la revista del Consejo Mundial de Iglesias (CMI) sobre relaciones interreligiosas– se centra en "Reconfigurar la labor interreligiosa: Lecciones desde el terreno".

28 May 2025

Journal des ÖRK für den interreligiösen Dialog fordert Neugestaltung der interreligiösen Arbeit

Die aktuelle Ausgabe von Current Dialogue, dem Journal des Ökumenischen Rates der Kirchen (ÖRK) für interreligiöse Beziehungen, befasst sich mit einer „Neugestaltung der interreligiösen Arbeit: Erkenntnisse aus der Praxis“

28 May 2025