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A lively webinar ushered in the long-anticipated publication “A History of the Desire for Christian Unity: Vol 1: Dawn of Ecumenism,” the first of three volumes on the history of ecumenism. 

A special edition of Current Dialogue, the World Council of Churches (WCC) journal on interreligious relations, is marking the 50th anniversary of the WCC Office of Interreligious Dialogue and Cooperation.

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.

Taking its cue from a lecture by former World Council of Churches (WCC) general secretary Philip Potter, the October issue of the WCC quarterly The Ecumenical Review explores the meaning of the “oikoumene,” which in Greek refers to the whole inhabited earth and gives “ecumenism” its name.

World Council of Churches (WCC) acting general secretary Rev. Prof. Dr Ioan Sauca recorded a video message for the Evangelische Mission Weltweit (Association of Protestant Churches and Missions in Germany) General Assembly, which took place in Leipzig from 4-6 October.

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?”

Absorbing Philip Potter’s profoundly simple direction for the ecumenical movement—“only connect”—those gathered for an online tribute to the former World Council of Churches (WCC) general secretary tapped into the still-growing legacy of a remarkable man.

The World Council of Churches (WCC) has paid tribute to its former general secretary, Rev. Dr Philip Potter, who was born on 19 August 1921, and led the council from 1972 to 1984, a time of global religious and socio-political change.

Protopresbyter Leonid Kishkovsky, a widely known and respected priest of the Orthodox Church in America, a prominent theologian and ecumenist, former member of the World Council of Churches (WCC) central and executive committees fell asleep in the Lord on the evening of 3 August at the age of 78.

Looking toward the 11th Assembly of the World Council of Churches (WCC) to take place in 2022, the July issue of The Ecumenical Review, the WCC’s quarterly journal, contains a set of articles that focus on the assembly theme, “Christ’s love moves the world to reconciliation and unity.”