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.
Na Laca, a new newsletter from Pasifika Communities University
Pasifika Communities University launched Na Laca (“The Sails”), its new newsletter, in September.
Weaving an Indigenous thread into the World Methodist Council
About 180 people from the worldwide Methodist family met in San Salvador from 13 to 17 August for the World Methodist Council meeting, on the theme “The Kingdom of God is justice and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit”, and visited places connected with Archbishop Óscar Romero.
Fiji’s Parliament passes the Pasifika Communities University Bill
Fiji’s Parliament passed the Pasifika Communities University Bill at its third reading on 25 August, with support from all sides of the House, giving a legal footing to the regional university that has grown out of the Pacific Theological College.
A WCC lecture in Sydney on memory and healing
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Pentecostals and Anglicans work together on holiness
The International Pentecostal-Anglican Commission held the final annual meeting of its first mandate at Journey Church in Calgary, Canada, from 6 to 12 June, hosted by the Pentecostal World Fellowship.
Essays on Nicaea at 1700
The WCC has published Towards Nicaea 2025: Exploring the Council’s Ecumenical Significance Today, a collection of essays marking 1700 years since the first ecumenical council and the Nicene Creed.
A New Zealand response to Pope Leo’s letter on artificial intelligence
Bishop Richard Laurenson of Hamilton welcomed Magnifica Humanitas, Pope Leo XIV’s first encyclical, which was published on 25 May and is about protecting the human person in an age of artificial intelligence.
Remembering Jione Havea
The World Council of Churches paid tribute to Rev.
Remembering Jürgen Moltmann at 100
A symposium at the Evangelical Academy in Bad Boll, Germany, from 10 to 12 April marked what would have been the 100th birthday of the theologian Jürgen Moltmann, under the theme “Hope in God: The Future of the World”.
An Easter message from Pasifika Communities University
In his Easter message, “The Intensity of Grace Amid a Wounded World”, Rev.