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On June 3, a new government was inaugurated in South Korea, pledging to achieve social integration and great social transformation. At this historical juncture, over 80 theologians, clergy, women and youth leaders from Asia, North America, and Europe who have dedicated themselves to justice, peace, unity and solidarity, gathered at St. Bede(Daehakro) Church, Anglican Church of Korea in Seoul from June 30 to July 1 under the theme “Far-Right Extremism and the Response of the Global Church.” We reaffirmed that the immense crisis faced by Korean society is by no means an exceptional situation. Rather, we paid particular attention to the fact that the global rise of far-right extremism makes Korea's example of overcoming crisis all the more exceptional.

Statement on Guarding Against Atrocity Crimes by the Central Committee of the World Council of Churches, meeting in Johannesburg, South Africa, on 18-24 June 2025.

Statement on Palestine and Israel by the Central Committee of the World Council of Churches, meeting in Johannesburg, South Africa, on 18-24 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.

Bern, Switzerland | 27–28 May 2025

“A Response to the Call of the Church and the Cry of the People", speech by Rev. Prof. Dr Jerry Pillay, World Council of Churches general secretary at the Conference on the Preservation of Armenian Religious, Cultural and Historical Heritage in Artsakh/Nagorno Karabakh, Bern, Switzerland, 27 May 2025.

Speech by Rev. Rita Famos, president of the Protestant Church in Switzerland, at the Conference on the Preservation of Armenian Religious, Cultural and Historical Heritage in Artsakh/Nagorno Karabakh

Address of His Holiness Karekin II, Supreme Patriarch and Catholicos of All Armenians at the conference “The Preservation of the Armenian Spiritual, Cultural and Historical Heritage of Nagorno-Karabakh” in Bern, Switzerland, 27 May 2025.

"Reclaiming the Spirit of Life & Work for Ecumenical Renewal", message of the CCIA Life and Work Centenary Consultation held on 18-20 May 2025 in Athens, Greece. 

Key note address of Bishop Jonas Jonson at the CCIA Consultation on Centenary of Life and Work Conference in Stockholm 1925, Athens, Greece, 19 May 2025.

Commission of the Churches on International Affairs Director’s report at the opening session of the CCIA 60th meeting / Life and Work Centenary Consultation, Athens, 18 May 2025.