Refugee and Immigrant Priorities for the 120th Congress
For 80 years, Church World Service has worked toward a world in which all people have food, voice and a safe place to call home. As a faith-based, humanitarian organization, CWS represents approximately 17 million people of faith across 16 Covenant Members and denominations. CWS’ mission to welcome newcomers, alongside our legal and policy expertise and extensive programmatic services, informs ...
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After the arrest and arraignment: A Vermont pastor’s conviction that civil disobedience is a sacred call
Sitting on the Rev. Jessica Derise’s bookshelf is a copy of Henry David Thoreau’s “Civil Disobedience.” In the 1849 essay, published in part to protest the Mexican-American war, Thoreau calls for readers to “let your life be a counter friction…
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WCC youth commission elects new vice moderator
The World Council of Churches' Commission on Young People in the Ecumenical Movement, during its meeting in Ghana, elected a new vice moderator, Mawuli Assimadi, from the Evangelical Presbyterian Church of Togo.
Missouri UCC Church Honors Civil War Veterans in Special Dedication Ceremony
St. John United Church of Christ in Manchester, Missouri dedicated three new headstones honoring early church members who were also Civil War veterans on October 4 this year. Judy Lindquist, church historian on the cemetery board, said that 12 Civil…
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Pastors from the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Württemberg visit WCC
A group of pastors from the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Württemberg, Germany visited the World Council of Churches (WCC) and Ecumenical Institute at Bossey.
Churches bring knowledge of resilience to COP31, says Takeshi Komino
The World Council of Churches (WCC) is taking part in COP31, the 31st UN climate conference, in Antalya, Türkiye. It works there alongside the ACT Alliance, a global coalition of churches and agencies engaged in development, humanitarian assistance, and advocacy. Takeshi Komino of Church World Service, a member of the ACT Alliance delegation, says that churches bring to the negotiations knowledge of how to turn climate money into climate resilience in communities. The WCC spoke with him about disasters, the work of churches, and why local voices belong in international climate talks.
Conference of European Churches appoints new programme officer for peace
Natallia Vasilevich has joined the Conference of European Churches (CEC) as programme officer for research on peace politics and ethics in Europe. She will serve for one year from November 2026, strengthening CEC’s work for a just peace in Ukraine. She is a member of the World Council of Churches' Commission on Ecumenical Education and Formation.
COP31: church leader’s prayer opens Pacific’s Moana Pavilion
For Pacific peoples, the ocean does not separate the islands. It joins them. With this image of the Moana, Rev. Faaimata (Mata) Havea Hiliau of the Uniting Church in Australia opened the Moana Blue Pacific Pavilion on 9 November.
WCC shares insights at conference “Our Finances at the Service of Climate Justice,” led by the Protestant Federation of France
The World Council of Churches (WCC) shared insights at a conference, “Taking Action Through Money: Our Finances at the Service of Climate Justice,” hosted in Paris by the Protestant Federation of France on 7 November.
African and African Diaspora Conference a “walk of faith” that will keep going
The Africa and African Diaspora Conference, held in Johannesburg, South Africa from 26-30 October was in many ways “a walk of faith,” said Rev. Dr Angelique Walker-Smith, World Council of Churches (WCC) president from North America-Turtle Island.