NEWS
News from our member churches and the wider ecumenical movement, with our monthly roundup and a library of stories from ecumenical bodies around the world.
Churches and mental health
On World Mental Health Day, the Christian Conference of Asia encouraged churches to challenge the stigma around mental illness and to offer pastoral care in which people can talk about their struggles without shame.
WCC commissions meet in Chiang Mai
The World Council of Churches’ commissions and reference groups on life, justice and peace opened their joint biennial meeting in Chiang Mai, Thailand, on 5 October.
The Christian Conference of Asia greets Asia’s Catholic bishops
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A new general secretary for the Christian Conference of Asia
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Asian church leaders call for a renewed ecumenical vision
More than 70 church and ecumenical leaders met in Chiang Mai from 31 May to 3 June for a Christian Conference of Asia consultation on ecumenism in Asia, and were joined by representatives of the Federation of Asian Bishops’ Conferences and the Asia Evangelical Alliance.
Asia Sunday 2026
Member churches and councils of the Christian Conference of Asia kept Asia Sunday on 17 May, with the theme “Hope for Redemption of Groaning Creation Amidst Bondage to Decay”.