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The latest edition of the quarterly WCC journal features a discussion of the roots of religion and violence in the Middle East. Five presentations drawn from three WCC-sponsored conferences of recent years explore aspects of the religious concepts of “promised land,” the “theology of land” and how to go about “reading the Hebrew Bible in solidarity with the Palestinian people.”

Les chercheurs du monde entier disposent d’une nouvelle ressource pour étudier l’histoire du mouvement œcuménique: les documents personnels de Philip Potter, secrétaire général du COE de 1972 à 1984. Ces documents sont désormais disponibles sur demande écrite ou peuvent être consultés dans la salle de lecture des archives du COE à Genève.

As the El Nino weather pattern challenges southern Africa, what is the role of churches in helping people realize their right to food and livelihood?

“Ecclesiology and Ethics in Africa” is the theme of the latest issue of The Ecumenical Review, the quarterly journal of the World Council of Churches (WCC). The content includes principal presentations made at a June 2015 conference on Ecclesiology and Ethics: the State of Ecumenical Theology in Africa, held at the University of Western Cape in South Africa.

Pope Francis was presented two publications of the World Council of Churches on 24 February, at the close of a papal audience in the Vatican attended by members of the WCC’s Commission on World Mission and Evangelism (CWME).

Ecumenical cooperation among Christian traditions is “an indispensable path to evangelization,” according to the 2013 apostolic exhortation from Pope Francis titled Evangelii Gaudium, or “the joy of the gospel.” The latest issue of the journal International Review of Mission analyses the encyclical’s teaching in light of two other documents on mission agreed by the Commission on World Mission and Evangelism and the Lausanne Committee for World Evangelization.

In 1967, the Albanian government, under despotic leader Enver Hoxha, began closing down all religious institutions in the country, declaring Albania the world’s first officially atheist state.

A compelling portrayal of the revival of the collective church in Albania is found in the voices of individuals such as Nathan Hoppe, who recalls arriving there in 1998.

This Christmas the St Luke Clinic in Tirana has come of age. Twenty-one years after it was founded it offers specialized medical assistance in an array of medical fields and its founding was the foundation of expanded church-run medical services in Albania.

Les militants religieux ont présenté un total de 1 780 528 signatures rassemblées à travers le monde pour demander une action décisive afin d’enrayer le réchauffement de la planète. Les pétitions ont été remises aux responsables de la Conférence sur le climat des Nations Unies, la COP 21, qui entame son travail à Paris.

Progress toward equality of men and women in the news media has ground to a halt, according to newly released results from the Global Media Monitoring Project.

Mere days after terror attacks in Beirut and Paris, the theme of an interfaith meeting of Christians and Muslims at the Ecumenical Centre in Geneva on “Religion, Peace and Violence” was entirely appropriate, said participants.

Results of the fifth and largest study on the portrayal and representation of women in the news media will be released on 23 November 2015 at 12:00 am (midnight) EST (5:00 am UCT/GMT).

“A Dialogue on Believers’ Baptism” provides the focus for the October issue of the quarterly journal of the WCC.

The kidnapping of the Chibok schoolgirls in April 2014 is sadly symbolic of the suffering of children in Nigeria, says the pastor who heads the Council of Churches of Nigeria.

“Christianity is not about big preaching, it’s about how you can impact somebody and add value,” says Nigerian ecumenical leader Rev. Dr Ibrahim Yusuf Wushishi, who leads a huge grouping of churches in Africa’s most populous nation.

Les femmes sont quasiment invisibles dans les reportages sur les questions de paix et de sécurité dans les pays en situation de conflit.

Le COE est confronté à des attentes toujours plus grandes de la part de ses Églises membres et des ses partenaires œcuméniques mais aussi des organisations internationales, or c’est dans un contexte de ressources financières limitées qu’il convient de répondre à ces attentes. Cette situation résulte de l’évolution du taux de change entre le franc suisse, utilisé pour régler les dépenses locales du COE, et de nombreuses autres devises. Face à l’appréciation du franc suisse depuis le début de l’année 2015, il est devenu urgent de réduire les coûts, y compris les dépenses de personnel. Aussi le COE a-t-il pris la décision de réduire ses effectifs, ce qui s’accompagnera d’une refonte des méthodes de travail de l’organisation. Dans un entretien avec la journaliste des Nouvelles du COE, le pasteur Olav Fykse Tveit explique les principales difficultés auxquelles le COE est confronté à l’heure actuelle.

Rev. Dr Odair Pedroso Mateus, professor of ecumenical theology at the Ecumenical Institute in Bossey, Switzerland and acting director of the WCC Commission on Faith and Order, has been confirmed as the new Faith and Order director.