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World Council of Churches (WCC) general secretary Rev. Prof. Dr Jerry Pillay has described the proposal of US President Trump as “tantamount to proposing full-scale ethnic cleansing and neo-colonization of the homeland of the 2 million Palestinians of Gaza.”

El Evangelio no debe ser instrumentalizado por la política —y las iglesias nunca deberían disculparse por leer la Biblia o predicar el Evangelio, declaró el moderador del Consejo Mundial de Iglesias (CMI), el obispo Prof. Dr. Heinrich Bedford-Strohm, durante su reflexión en una oración matutina que tuvo lugar el 27 de enero.

L’Évangile ne doit pas être instrumentalisé à des fins politiques, et les Églises ne doivent jamais avoir à s’excuser de lire la Bible ou de prêcher l’Évangile, déclare le président du Conseil œcuménique des Églises (COE), l’évêque Heinrich Bedford-Strohm lors de la prière matinale du 27 janvier.

Das Evangelium darf nicht von der Politik instrumentalisiert werden – und die Kirchen sollten sich niemals dafür entschuldigen, dass sie die Bibel lesen oder das Evangelium predigen. Dies waren die Worte des Vorsitzenden des Ökumenischen Rates der Kirchen (ÖRK), Bischof Prof. Dr. Heinrich Bedford-Strohm, während einer Morgenandacht am 27. Januar.

Gospel must not be instrumentalized by politics – and churches should never apologize for reading the Bible or for preaching the Gospel, said moderator of the World Council of Churches (WCC) central committee Bishop Prof. Dr Heinrich Bedford-Strohm during his reflection at a morning prayer on 27 January.

During an interfaith service in Memphis, Tennessee, on 20 January at the Healing Cathedral Christian Church, hundreds of people gathered in-person and online to commemorate Dr Martin Luther King Jr’s legacy and to respond to deep injustices plaguing the United States. 

In the wake of an attack involving a truck plowing into a crowd in New Orleans, Louisiana (US) on 31 December, World Council of Churches general secretary Rev. Prof. Dr Jerry Pillay condemned the violence against innocent people, and expressed solidarity with the churches and the communities within New Orleans.

World Council of Churches (WCC) moderator Bishop Dr Heinrich Bedford-Strohm spoke at a conference on racial justice hosted by the Diocese in Europe of the Church of England from 4-7 December. 

The people of Haiti, suffering under severe economic and political crises, are the focus of a World Council of Churches (WCC) executive committee statement. “We pray for God’s compassion for the people of this troubled land, and an answer to their cries,” reads the text.

The North America-Turtle Island regional gap-year session, a critical convening between World Council of Churches (WCC) central committee meetings, took place online 12-14 November.