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  Prayer campaign begins worldwide to end 70-year Korean War

  A war erupted on the Korean Peninsula 70 years ago that divided Korea and that has yet to end. So, the world's churches have launched a "70 Days of Prayers - Global Prayer Campaign" for peace.

• World ecumenical and evangelical leaders, Pope Francis urge U.S. and Iran to wind down conflict

  

  The World Council of Churches and the World Evangelical Alliance along with Pope Francis called this week for restraint and de-escalation to prevent the conflict between the United States and Iran worsening.

• Australia's churches act on national fire crisis with responders and prayers

  

  Red and smoky skies at night and in the morning* looming in four Australian states indicate a catastrophe of biblical proportions as killer fires engulf them with towns and communities going down in flames, leaving tens of thousands of people stranded.

• After attacks in Nigeria, Syria, Somalia and United States, world churches' leader calls for end to violence

  

  Christmas week is expected to be a time of peace, but this year it was not with attacks taking place in Nigeria, Somalia, Syria and the United States during the Christian celebrations and the Jewish festival of Hanukkah.

• Its the students who make Switzerland's Bossey so special, not the courses

  

  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.