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The World Council of Churches

December 18, 2020

WCC Christmas message: 'fragile hope and sounds of angels in the air'

In its Christmas message, the World Counci of Churches reflects on fear, despair, hope and joy during the pandemic.
August 13, 2020

Churches' rescue ship to help migrants in the Mediterranean

Sea-Watch 4, purchased by a crowdfund led by the Evangelical Church in Germany, will help migrants attempting to reach Europe from north Africa.
July 12, 2020

Reduce post-harvest losses to boost food security in Africa, say church leaders

Loss of food due to bad roads and a lack of proper storage facilities have been a major cause of hunger, say African church leaders.
July 11, 2019

USA faith leaders call for diplomacy, not war, with Iran

The statement describes a USA-Iran war as an unmitigated disaster as well as morally and religiously indefensible.
August 27, 2012

Road safety is an issue of justice, says World Council of Churches

The World Council of Churches General Secretary has joined the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe in honouring the victims of road collisions
October 24, 2007

Dialogue highlights role of faith in global peacemaking

At a high-profile interfaith dialogue for peace in Naples, Italy, earlier this week, gathered religious and political leaders and intellectuals from five continents committed themselves to tackling the causes of global conflict.
October 3, 2007

We need to move beyond Kyoto, says world churches' body

The Kyoto Protocol is "an important step forward towards a just and sustainable global climate policy regime" but "much more radical reductions [of greenhouse gas emissions] are urgently needed," the World Council of Churches' executive committee has declared.
August 1, 2007

Sri Lanka solidarity visit planned by global churches

War-torn Sri Lanka is to receive the first of a series of ecumenical "living letters" teams which will visit Christian communities facing situations of violence in different regions of the world.
February 22, 2007

WCC chief notes shift from West to South in world Christianity

The head of the World Council of Churches has lamented the decline of Christianity in the West, while also praising rapid growth of the faith in developing countries - reports Ecumeical News International (ENI).
February 12, 2007

WCC chief says China and India will reshape our world

China and India are growing influences on global change which will transform the way the world is governed and also the meaning of development, the general secretary of the World Council of Churches, the Rev Dr Samuel Kobia, has declared - report Fredrick Nzwili from Nairobi for Ecumenical News International (ENI) and Paulino Menezes (WCC).