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Global religious leaders shared greetings during the celebration of the 80th anniversary of the Ecumenical Institute at Bossey on 7 October. 

The Ecumenical Institute at Bossey will celebrate its 80th anniversary on 7 October, bringing together students, alumni, faculty, staff and partners from across the global ecumenical movement. The full-day programme will also be available to watch online via Zoom, allowing the wider Bossey community to join the celebration from around the world.

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During the 63rd Session of the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva, presidential envoy for nuclear justice and human rights Senator David Anitok met with World Council of Churches (WCC) general secretary Rev. Prof. Dr Jerry Pillay.

As the official 80th anniversary celebration for the World Council of Churches (WCC) Ecumenical Institute at Bossey began on 7 October with an opening prayer, Rev. Prof. Dr Odair Pedroso Mateus, former deputy general secretary of WCC, offered a sermon from the perspective of one who served Bossey for 16 years, particularly in the chair of ecumenical theology.

In response to New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s statement marking the anniversary of the October 7 Hamas attacks on Israel, Rabbi Rick Jacobs issued the following statement.

From disaster zones to mission fields around the world, United Methodist Volunteers in Mission marks a half-century of making a difference.

Chicago Theological Seminary (CTS) and Yale Divinity School (YDS) have announced a proposed affiliation agreement, which they say is “grounded in shared commitments to theological education, public leadership, and communities dedicated to justice. If approved by both institution’s boards and…

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A small, 140-year-old African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church in Yankton, South Dakota, was open to the public as a museum of the city’s African American history for the first time this summer. The simple brick Yankton AME Church has been…

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These days, it seems the lines are drawn in the sand with rigidity when it comes to political alliances and religious categories like progressive, liberal, moderate, evangelical and conservative. These words are bandied about in discussions about people and who…

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