Ecumenical Institute brings emerging theologians together across North America–Turtle Island
The North America–Turtle Island Regional Ecumenical Theological Institute (NATI-RETI) is currently bringing together 20 emerging theologians and ecumenical leaders from Canada and the United States for two weeks of intensive learning, prayer, encounter, and community life.
GEM School to gather church leaders on debt and tax justice
What a government owes to foreign lenders, what it collects in tax, and what it receives to cope with climate change decide how much is left for public services. From 17–28 August, the World Council of Churches (WCC) will bring 22 church leaders to Panama City to study those systems and learn how to argue for changing them. It is called the GEM School, the Ecumenical School on Governance, Economics, and Management for an Economy of Life.
WCC mission returns from World Social Forum pledging faith into action
The World Social Forum – a global gathering of civil-society and social-movement groups – returned to Africa for the first time since 2015. Its 17th gathering ran in Cotonou, Benin, from 4-8 August, under the slogan "Another World is Possible." A World Council of Churches (WCC) mission of around 20 West African church leaders and partners took part.
Joint statement from the Anglican Primates of the Americas
Leaders met in São Paulo, Brazil, August 10–12.
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WCC launches webinar series on Theology of Companionship
The World Council of Churches (WCC) will host a webinar series, starting in September, exploring the Theology of Companionship: a way of walking together with mutuality, shared vulnerability, and accountable relationships—even across unequal power.
GEM School and NIFEA Events Head to Panama for a Landmark 10th Anniversary
The World Communion of Reformed Churches (WCRC), together with the World Council of Churches (WCC), Lutheran World Federation, World Methodist Council, Council for World Mission and United Society Partners in the Gospel, is preparing to welcome students for the ecumenical school on Governance, Economics, and Management for an Economy of Life (GEM School). Scheduled for […]
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Ukrainian churches appeal for Worldwide prayer as expression of solidarity
The Ukrainian Council of Churches and Religious Organizations is appealing for churches everywhere to join a Worldwide Prayer for Ukraine on 24 August, which also marks the 35th anniversary of Ukraine’s Independence.
Peace treatise: “If you want peace, go and talk to your enemy”
The editorial team of Ralf Becker, Rev. Karen Hinrichs, Prof. Dr Heinrich Schäfer, and Dr Theodor Ziegler are presenting “If you want peace, go and talk to your enemy: An Ecumenical Peace Treatise–2026.”
Rabbi Rick Jacobs' Comments on West Bank Jewish Settler Violence
URJ President Rabbi Rick Jacobs issued the following statement in response to recent Jewish settler attacks against Palestinians in the West Bank.
In Taybeh - the only remaining Christian village in the West Bank - children live in fear
Taybeh, the only remaining Christian village in the West Bank, includes Christian archaeology dating back to the Roman era and early Christianity. Located in the Ramallah area of the West Bank, the village’s population has dwindled to 1,200 people, all of them Christians. During the 1980s, the population was around 3,000 people.