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On 26 December, the theological community mourned the passing of Rev. Prof. Dr Daniel Buda, dean of the Faculty of Theology Andrei Șaguna at the Lucian Blaga University, Sibiu. 

Registrations are open for a World Council of Churches webinar on 19 January that will launch the first volume of a major new history of ecumenism produced by a team of academics and scholars coordinated by the Italian-based Foundation for Religious Studies (FSCIRE).

Looking toward the 2022 assembly of the World Council of Churches (WCC) that will gather around the theme “Christ’s love moves the world to reconciliation and unity,” the latest issue of the WCC journal International Review of Mission focuses on the relationship between mission and unity.

Wenn digitale soziale Gerechtigkeit mit der Vernetzung von Menschen beginnt, dann endet sie vielleicht dort, wo diese Netzwerke durch repressive Regime, Extremisten, Fake News und Hassrede missbraucht werden. Am 13. September befassten sich Theologen, Politiker, Kirchenvertreter, Aktivisten und Journalisten aus aller Welt in einem Gespräch im Stil eines “Presseclubs” mit der kurzen aber äußerst komplexen Frage "Digitale Instrumente - Segen oder Fluch?”

The latest issue of Current Dialogue, the World Council of Churches (WCC) journal on interreligious relations, focuses on “Christ’s love,” an important aspect of the theme of the WCC’s 2022 assembly, “Christ’s love moves the world to reconciliation and unity,” from an interreligious perspective. 

Rev. Dr Benjamin Simon became the World Council of Churches (WCC) programme executive for Church Relations in March 2020—just when the COVID-19 pandemic began to underscore the importance of bringing the WCC global fellowship together in new and creative ways.  

Der Exekutivausschuss des Ökumenischen Rates der Kirchen (ÖRK) hat Priester Prof. Dr. Ioan Sauca bei einer Online-Tagung am 3. Juni als Interims-Generalsekretär des ÖRK bestätigt. Sauca wird dieses Amt bis zur nächsten Tagung des ÖRK-Zentralausschusses im Juni 2021 kommissarisch ausüben.

Rev. Prof. Dr Ioan Sauca has been confirmed interim WCC general secretary by the executive committee at an online meeting held on 3 June. Sauca will hold the post until the WCC central committee meets in June 2021.

Bishop Johannes Hempel of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Saxony, a former president of the World Council of Churches (WCC) who led his church in East Germany during the period of the Cold War confrontation, the 1989 peaceful revolution, and German unification, has died aged 91.

The annual meeting of the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue (PCID) and the World Council of Churches (WCC) was hosted by the WCC at the Ecumenical Centre, Geneva, and at the nearby Chateau de Bossey from 6-7 February.

Thirty years ago, on 9 November 1989, when the Berlin Wall fell, the Nicolaikirche in Leipzig had gained a reputation as a gathering point for events signalling the end of an era of communist rule in what was then East Germany.

The latest issue of The Ecumenical Review, the quarterly journal of the World Council of Churches (WCC), focuses on the Pan-African Women’s Ecumenical Empowerment Network (PAWEEN), a project of the WCC’s programme on Ecumenical Theological Education (ETE).

Formally established as a network in 2015, PAWEEN aims to celebrate, commemorate, and build upon the legacy of Pan‐African women in the ecumenical movement.

Der Aufruf von Arusha zur Nachfolge ist gleichzeitig belebend, verwandelnd und herausfordernd und bereitet einigen Menschen sogar Unbehagen – das sagten Vertreter/innen der Kommission für Weltmission und Evangelisation (CWME) des Ökumenischen Rates der Kirchen (ÖRK) auf einer Pressekonferenz anlässlich einer Buchveröffentlichung in Helsinki (Finnland) am 20. Mai.