June 5, 2013
A Nigerian theology student has won the top honour for the 2013 Lombard Prize with his paper on how the biblical concept of “paradise” affects contemporary attitudes towards the earth’s human and natural resources.
May 25, 2013
WCRC's Executive Committee has issued a call to its president, Jerry Pillay, to be the next general secretary. The current general secretary,Setri Nyomi,shares the news in a letter to member churches in which he asks for prayers for Pillay as he considers the call.Jerry Pillay (Photo: Peter Williams)
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May 19, 2013
WCRC can be a “worthy partner” in efforts to address poverty and interfaith relations, Ghana’s president tells WCRC delegation.
L to R: Pillay and Mahama in Accra
(Photo: Presidential photography service)
May 14, 2013
Ghana’s Presbyterian churches today are expressing their spirituality in ways that are more African in origin and expression, say Ghanaian church representatives.Photo: (L) Seth Agidi, (R)Kofi Amfo-Akonnor (WCRC/Greenaway)
May 12, 2013
The Christian Federation of Malaysia has issued a call for a day for prayer against racism on Monday 13 May, says Mok Cheh Liang of the Presbyterian Church in Malaysia. Mok is in Dodowa, Ghana for meetings of WCRC’s Executive Committee.Photo: Mok Cheh Liang (WCRC/Greenaway)
May 10, 2013
Churches around the world are asked to join in the Day of Prayer for Syria on Saturday 11 May, says WCRC Executive Committee member Najla Kassab.Najla Kassab (Photo: WCRC/Koopmans)
May 7, 2013
"Particularly, my experience in South Africa under apartheid alerted me to the necessity to be connected with other churches and faiths in addressing the evils and oppression of a political system which dehumanized the majority of black people in our country,” says Pillay.
Photo: Jerry Pillay, WCRC President (Photo: Peter Williams)
May 3, 2013
Nyomi says that as a young person he chose to study theology as he felt a strong sense of God’s calling to ordained ministry in order to be “an instrument of help to others”.Photo: Setri Nyomi (Helen Putsman-Penet)
May 2, 2013
The role of the Reformed church movement in global ecumenism is the focus of a meeting of WCRC's executive committee in Ghana, 7-15 May.Photo: Setri Nyomi (Helen Putsman-Penet)
April 26, 2013
“For many of our members, this process has opened doors to the truth of one part of our history,” says Stephen Kendall of the Presbyterian Church of Canada. “It is painful to learn that the church we know and love has caused so much pain.”
Debbie Poirier of the United Church of Canada
Photo Credit:WCRC/Greenaway