Address of bishop Dr Heinrich Bedford-Strohm, moderator of the World Council of Churches central committee, at the WCC central committee meeting on 18-24 June 2025 in Johannesburg, South Africa.
Global South World ranked the top 100 most influential journalists on TikTok in Latin America. Coming in at number 14 was Rev. Eugenio Albrecht from Argentina.
The World Council of Churches (WCC) executive and central committees are about to convene in Johannesburg, South Africa, with the central committee meeting 18-24 June, and the executive committee 16-17 June.
The World Council of Churches (WCC), as a member of the Interfaith Liaison Committee to the UNFCCC, invites faith communities, institutions, and climate justice advocates to participate in a Talanoa dialogue during SB62—the 62nd Sessions of the UNFCCC Subsidiary Bodies taking place 16-26 June 2025 in Bonn, Germany.
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.”
Young people who participated in the international conference “Berlin 1884–1885 and Anti-Black Racism: In Search of a Shared Anti-Racist Ecumenical Vision” shared their vision of how to decolonize churches and communities, and move toward a world with racial justice.
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.
The World Council of Churches (WCC) central committee will convene 18-24 June in Johannesburg, South Africa for important encounters on the Pilgrimage of Justice, Reconciliation, and Unity, particularly with South African churches.
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.
On the occasion of the 140th anniversary of the 1884–85 Berlin Conference that institutionalized the colonial partitioning of Africa, former World Council of Churches (WCC) general secretary Konrad Raiser delivered opening remarks at a landmark ecumenical gathering in Berlin.
As the international conference “Berlin 1884–1885 and Anti-Black Racism: In Search of a Shared Anti-Racist Ecumenical Vision” opened on 18 May, those gathered in-person and online acknowledged that the deep wounds of colonialism carved 140 years ago are by no means healed.
Commission of the Churches on International Affairs Moderator’s address at the opening session of the CCIA Life and Work Centenary Consultation, Athens, 18 May 2025.
Visitors to the World Council of Churches (WCC) on 13 May included 22 students from an international initiative between HTWG Konstanz (Germany) and Elizabethtown College (USA), as well as Outi Piiroinen Backman from Tuusula, Finland.
The World Council of Churches (WCC) will provide both onsite and online services to accredited media in connection with two upcoming and simultaneously held ecumenical conferences in Berlin, Germany and Athens, Greece.
140 Jahre nach der Berliner Konferenz von 1884–1885, einer der folgenreichsten geopolitischen Zusammenkünfte der modernen Geschichte, eröffnen der Ökumenische Rat der Kirchen (ÖRK) und ökumenische Partner
