WCC general secretary Olav Fykse Tveit speaking at the Vatican’s inter-religious service in the Ecumenical Centre, Geneva.
From the World Council of Churches
Drawing on the Indian churches’ experience of Christian disunity in the realities of casteism, churches around the world are celebrating the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity with a particular focus on justice as integral to the unity they seek.
The Student Christian Movement has announced Revd Raj Bharath Patta as keynote speaker for their upcoming conference ‘Seeds of Liberation’. The annual conference aims to inspire a new generation of Christian students to work for justice and peace.
“Any discussion about an alternative financial architecture must take into account the design, role and ownership as well as the powers that control information and communication structures,” says Rev. Dr Karin Achtelstetter, General Secretary of the World Association for Christian Communication (WACC).
From the European Churches Environment Network
Radical changes to tackle climate change were discussed by over 90 participants from Catholic, Orthodox and Protestant churches from 22 countries at the 9th Assembly of the European Churches Environment Network (ECEN) this week.
From the World Council of Churches News
World Council of Churches (WCC) Central Committee debates future directions in preparation for 2013 Assembly.
“The WCC can be and still is prophetic today,” said the Rev. Dr Walter Altmann, moderator of the World Council of Churches (WCC) Central Committee, reflecting on highs and lows in the ecumenical movement and on the identity of the WCC.
Frim ENInews
Asia-based members of the World Association for Christian Communication marked Communication Sunday on 2 September, making liturgical resources, stories and ideas available to all churches.
By ENInews Staff
The World Association for Christian Communication (WACC) on 9 August, the International Day of the World's Indigenous People, called on society and governments to support community radio in an effort to advance the democratic participation and active citizenship of native peoples.
By Dr Stephen Brown [WAAC] An International Society for Media, Religion and Culture (ISMRC ) has been inaugurated to support scholars and academic endeavours at the intersection of media and religion.
[ENInews] Christian leaders representing organizations comprising some 90 percent of the world's two billion Christians have issued a joint appeal to the 194 governments currently negotiating the first global Arms Trade Treaty to have it include ammunition, according to a news release form the World Council of Churches (WCC).
By Associated Press from the [Washington Post] United Nations— Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon called on the Iraqi government and an Iranian opposition group that was given refuge in the country during Saddam Hussein’s rule on Monday to work together to peacefully complete the group’s relocation without further delay.
The world's leading physicists are rightly very excited at the moment after the almost certain discovery of the so-called "God particle" in experiments at the European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN) in Geneva. This is one of the greatest leaps forward in the whole history of science.
From November this year, USPG will be changing its name to United Society, to be known as 'Us'.
Geneva, 27 June [ENInews] A growing number of people in the escalating violence in Syria appear to be targeted because of their religion and "gross violations of human rights are occurring regularly," a U.N. monitor said on 27 June.
26 June [ENInews] Two ecumenical groups - the World Council of Churches (WCC) and the World Association for Christian Communication (WACC) -- respectively highlighted situations in the Tanah Papua area of Indonesia and in Papua New Guinea, which shares the Pacific island of New Guinea.
[ENInews] Several faith-based organizations said they were disappointed with the U.N. Conference on Sustainable Development, known as Rio+20, which took place 20-22 June in Rio de Janeiro.
Young people from the Student Christian Movement and grassroots organizations of the World Student Christian Federation’s Latin America and Caribbean Region (FUMEC), and of the Centro Regional Ecuménico de Asesoría y Servicios (CREAS), presented a photo exhibition, la Muestra Latinoamericana Itinerante del Agua, to bring attention to the problems surrounding water justice.
