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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.

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. 

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.

Im St.-Pischoi-Kloster in Ägypten hat am 28. und 29. Juni ein Planungstreffen für die Sechste Weltkonferenz für Glauben und Kirchenverfassung und das ökumenische Kurzzeit-Studienprogramm mit globaler Ausrichtung (GETI) des Ökumenischen Rats der Kirchen (ÖRK) stattgefunden. Die hybride Veranstaltung beschäftigte sich schwerpunktmäßig mit der Logistik, dem Stewards-Programm, der geplanten Kommunikation, den Besuchen bei Ortsgemeinden und Besichtigungen von Sehenswürdigkeiten und dem Budget.

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. 

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.”