Any prospective student who intends to study at the World Council of Churches Ecumenical Institute at Château de Bossey, in its picturesque setting near Geneva, soon learns it is an exceptional place.
The Lutheran Church of Christ in Nigeria has launched a nationwide interfaith network to help different stakeholders allay the impact of irregular migration and human trafficking in Africa's most populous country.
World Council of Churches general secretary Rev. Olav Fykse Tveit has called on Israel to stop the illegal demolitions immediately calling the latest actions in East Jerusalem set a "dangerous precedent."
The U.S. Department of State has bestowed an International Religious Freedom Award on Salpy Eskidjian Weiderud, leader of the Religious Track of the Cyprus Peace Process and a former World Council of Churches staff member working on peace programs.
The Nicolaikirche in Leipzig was the gathering point for events signalling the end of an era of communist rule in what was then East Germany, 30 years ago, on Nov. 9, 1989, when the Berlin Wall fell.
Kenyan theologian Esther Mombo was born into an ecumenical environment in East Africa. She has a transcontinental education and told students of ecumenism this week that African Christianity is "young and vibrant", but that it needs to listen to the "women in the pews."
Amazon region bishops have call for married men to become Catholic priests to help reach their communities with Christian teachings. But the recent Vatican meeting draws ire of traditionalists with accusations about idolatry highlighted after some art carvings were seized from a church and cast into Rome's Tiber River. Soon after a synod Pope Francis in a homily urges openness to new ways "for the proclamation of the Gospel."
The tally of undernourished people is climbing again after decades of worldwide progress in the fight against hunger and the rise is of grave concern for the World Council of Churches, its ecumenical partners and the United Nations.
