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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.”

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WCC shares insights on Nicaea and the quest for Christian unity

During the international conference ”Nicaea and the Church of the Third Millennium: Towards Catholic-Orthodox Unity,” held 3-7 June, director of the World Council of Churches Commission on Faith and Order Dr Andrej Jeftić spoke on Nicaea and the Quest for Christian Unity: A Faith and Order Perspective on the Councils Ecumenical Significance.

WCC to cohost “Prophetic Witness for Life, Justice, and Peace” conference and seminars in southern Africa

The World Council of Churches (WCC), in collaboration with the Fellowship of Christian Councils in Southern Africa and the South African Council of Churches, is organizing from 12-16 June a conference and seminars inspired by the centenary of the 1925 Life and Work inaugural conference, which emphasized the churchs role in addressing social, political, and economic injustices.

Religious communities confront menstrual stigma in international webinar

Religious institutions worldwide are confronting their role in perpetuating menstrual stigma while simultaneously emerging as powerful advocates for women's dignity and health equity. The World Council of Churches (WCC) fourth annual Menstrual Hygiene Day webinar on 4 June brought together speakers from multiple continents and faith traditions to examine how patriarchal structures within religious communities have weaponised menstruation for control and marginalisation, whilst demonstrating how scripture, theology, and faith-based action can become tools for justice and liberation.

WCC mourns passing of Dr Anna Marie Aagaard

Dr Anna Marie Aagaard passed away at the age of 90 on 24 May. She worked for the Faculty of Theology at Aarhus University in Denmark from 1961until her retirement in 2000 as associate professor. Her interests were missiology, dogmatics, and ecumenism, and in the late 1960s she studied in Rome. and was also influenced by liberation theology and womens studies.