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Churches and Christian communities worldwide are invited to use the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity 2025 resources which are now available online in English, German, French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, and Arabic.

The Ecumenical Institute at Bossey in collaboration with Faith and Order will host an international hybrid conference themed “Nicaea and its meaning for today” from 4-8 November. 

Applications remain open for the Global Ecumenical Theological Institute, which will bring together about 100 students ages 21-35 from across the world in Wadi el Natrun, near Alexandria, Egypt, 12-29 October 2025. 

The deadline is 31 October 2024.

Thirteen Focolare students visited the World Council of Churches (WCC) on 18 September, receiving a welcome and introduction to the WCC, particularly its roles related to visible unity, justice, and peace.

With great sadness, the United Church of Canada announced the death of Rev. Dr Lois M. Wilson, the denomination’s 28th  moderator, and the first woman to fill the role. She faithfully served as moderator from 1980 to 1982. Wilson died in hospital in Fredericton, NB, on 13 September. She was 97 years old.

In a video message, World Council of Churches (WCC) general secretary Rev. Prof Dr Jerry Pillay shared joyful greetings with an ecumenical faith festival in Dresden, Germany, from 13-15 September under the theme "Living Hope for the Earth. Justice-Peace-Integrity of Creation.” 

The World Council of Churches (WCC) is commemorating the life and legacy of Baldwin Sjollema, who died of heart failure at his home in Geneva, Switzerland at age 97 on 6 September. 

His All-Holiness the Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew has noted that Easter celebration in 2025 “will not merely be a fortuitous occurrence, but rather the beginning of a unified date for its observance by both Eastern and Western Christianity.”

A webinar, “The role of Faith Actors and Governments in ensuring a just energy transition and mitigating climate change through a Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty,” held 10 September offered many perspectives on how churches can pray and act in this arena. 

The World Council of Churches (WCC), with ecumenical partners, gathered for a special prayer on 9 September to commemorate the opening of Season of Creation.