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.
Young theologians on the future of Christian unity
A new WCC book, GETI 2025: Voices and Visions of Transformative Unity, brings together papers by young theologians who took part in the Global Ecumenical Theological Institute held alongside last year’s Sixth World Conference on Faith and Order.
Bossey celebrates 80 years
The Ecumenical Institute at Bossey marked eighty years on 7 October with greetings from church leaders around the world.
Season of Creation closes, but the work goes on
The Season of Creation closed on 4 October, the feast of St Francis, with an online prayer service that gathered stories of care for creation from around the world and encouraged churches to keep that work going through the rest of the year.
The Faith and Order Commission meets in Lund
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The World Evangelical Alliance at 180
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Sight Loss Sunday: making church accessible
Sight Loss Sunday, run by the UK-based Torch Trust, fell on 11 October this year with the theme “Who does God call?”.
The Catholic Church and the WCC deepen their cooperation
The Joint Working Group between the World Council of Churches and the Roman Catholic Church, first set up in 1965, met at the Ecumenical Institute at Bossey from 1 to 3 September.
Season of Creation opens with “Living Water”
The 2026 Season of Creation opened on 1 September with a service on the theme “Living Water”, from Ezekiel 47.
Join the Pilgrimage of Justice, Reconciliation and Unity
The WCC has opened a webpage of resources for churches taking part in its Pilgrimage of Justice, Reconciliation and Unity, which grew out of the pilgrimage begun in 2013 and was renewed at the 2022 assembly in Karlsruhe.
A comic for Orthodox children
Eli and the Little Saints is a new monthly comic from the St Thomas Indian Orthodox Church in Germany, part of the Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church, which introduces children to Orthodox prayer and tradition through a fictional priest, Fr Eli.
A documentary about Taizé
Taizé: A Pilgrimage of Trust follows nine teenagers from a youth group in Massachusetts, some Catholic and some Protestant, as they discover the Taizé Community in France.
The WCC turns 78
Marking the WCC’s seventy-eighth anniversary, general secretary Rev.
A WCC lecture in Sydney on memory and healing
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Thursdays in Black in Fiji
House of Sarah, a faith-based organisation in Fiji, works to support women and prevent gender-based and domestic violence.
Ecumenical International Youth Day 2026
Ecumenical International Youth Day was marked online on 13 August under the theme “Creating Healing Spaces”, inviting young people and churches to restore, empower, strengthen and thrive together.
The Baptist World Alliance meets in Toronto
WCC representatives attended the Baptist World Alliance’s annual gathering in Toronto, Canada, from 6 to 10 July, on the theme “The Table of Christ: One Gospel, Many People”.
Week of Prayer 2027 resources released
The resources for the 2027 Week of Prayer for Christian Unity are now available.
Why visible unity matters now
In a lecture in Paris on crisis and renewal in the ecumenical movement, the French theologian Rev.
Young ecumenists meet online
The WCC’s network of Young People in the Ecumenical Movement held its second online Connection Gathering on 10 June, inviting young people from every region to meet in small groups and share their experience.
A Pentecost festival for Oslo’s many congregations
The Christian Council of Norway held a Pentecost festival at Grorud Church in Oslo on 25 May under the theme “Together as God’s Family”.