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WCC Annual Review 2024

Pursuing Peace Together

The WCC Annual Review 2024: Pursuing Peace Together presents the Pilgrimage of Justice, Reconciliation, and Unity in progress. This pilgrimage brings active hope even amid global trends that have brought incalculable human suffering. 

“We hope these pages will show the ways in which Christians and Christian churches are living their ecumenical fellowship today—the ways in which we unite our worldwide fellowship of churches not only around our shared Christian faith, which remains our vital centre, but also in the specific interests of justice, love, peace, and hope,” writes WCC general secretary Rev. Prof. Dr Jerry Pillay in an opening message. 

The annual review also shows how WCC member churches have been standing up for truth, siding with the poor, and holding out hope amid injustices and suffering.

A final version and translations will follow the currently available edition of the 2024 Annual Review in the coming weeks.

Media accreditation opens for the WCC central committee meeting

Media accreditation is now open for the World Council of Churches (WCC) central committee, which will convene in Johannesburg, South Africa, 18 – 24 June. Media accreditation is mandatory for access to open sessions, press conferences, briefings, and seminars – onsite, as well as online.

WCC wishes Pope Francis renewed health

In a letter to Pope Francis, World Council of Churches (WCC) general secretary Rev. Prof. Dr Jerry Pillay and WCC moderator Bishop Prof. Dr Heinrich Bedford-Strohm offered sincere prayers for his rapid recovery and renewed health in these coming days.