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The World Council of Churches (WCC) central committee welcomed four new member churches: Lutheran Church of Christ in Nigeria, Church of Central Africa Presbyterian (Malawi), Apostolic Pentecostal Church International (Liberia), and Union of Evangelical Free Churches in Germany.

In a minute, the World Council of Churches (WCC) central committee expressed how appalled it was by the news of a suicide bomb attack on the Mar Elias Greek Orthodox Church in the Dweila neighbourhood of Syria’s capital Damascus on 22 June. 

World Council of Churches (WCC) central committee moderator Bishop Prof. Dr Heinrich Bedford-Strohm, in his report to the WCC governing body, addressed how to share hope in a world beset by dramatically increasing suffering and violence.

In his report to the World Council of Churches (WCC) central committee, WCC general secretary Rev. Prof. Dr Jerry Pillay reflected on daring to hope in the context of struggle and pain.

During a press conference on 18 June—the opening day of the World Council of Churches (WCC) central committee in Johannesburg, South Africa—a journalist’s question sparked candid answers: “Is the world listening to the WCC?"

Welcomed by African churches, the World Council of Churches (WCC) central committee, held its opening prayer on 18 June, beginning a meeting in Johannesburg, South Africa that will run through 24 June.

Visitors to the World Council of Churches (WCC) doing the first two weeks in June delved into many topics, from human rights, to combatting xenophobia, to engaging young people in ecumenism. 

Bishop Sean Rowe, presiding bishop of The Episcopal Church (USA); Bishop Mark Edington, bishop in Charge of the Convocation of Episcopal Churches in Europe; and Right Bishop Rev. Peter Eaton, bishop of southeast Florida visited the World Council of Churches (WCC).