World Council of Churches

WCC general secretary Rev. Prof. Dr Jerry Pillay was featured in a interview with Christian Peschken, Geneva correspondent for EWTN Germany since 2014. The interview will appear on EWTN and CNA Deutsch. 

Five young researchers joined the World Council of Churches (WCC) in 2026: four through the Climate Curve Constellations Fellowship, a programme placing early-career researchers with organizations working on climate change, and one returning for a second internship in the WCC’s work on children’s rights. They came from Nigeria, Uganda, Sierra Leone, and the United States. Ask any of them why climate justice, and the answer starts somewhere specific. A farm, a marsh, an audit desk.

On 5 June, churches and faith-based organizations from Colombia, the United Kingdom, and Ireland, together with investment and ecumenical partners, submitted a complaint under the OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises on Responsible Business Conduct concerning HSBC Holdings plc and its financial relationship with Glencore, the company operating the Cerrejón coal mine in La Guajira, Colombia. This is the second of a three-part feature story that illustrates the grave health effects—particularly on children—of the Cerrejón mining operation. 

Erin Tsutsui is a 16-year-old rising junior at Henry M. Gunn High School in California. She visited the World Council of Churches on 5 August with a group from the League of Creative Minds. She shared her grandfather’s story of surviving the nuclear bomb in Hiroshima on 6 August 1945.

Rev. Nicole Ashwood, WCC programme executive for a Just Community of Women and Men, served as a guest lecturer at Universitas Kristen Indonesia Maluku on 20 July. Her lecture, entitled “Is Decolonial Ecumenism JUST Talk?” challenged the students to move from words to action.

The Ecumenical Institute at Bossey is celebrating its 80th anniversary - and the World Council of Churches (WCC) invites everyone to join in commemorating a vibrant institution that has transformed thousands of lives.

Twenty-three young ecumenists were called to embody hope and unity during the month-long Asian Ecumenical Institute 2026 in Chiang Mai, an annual ecumenical formation programme organised by the Christian Conference of Asia. 

On 2-3 July, the Second International Conference of the Observatory of Religious Fundamentalism was held at the Orthodox Academy of Crete on the topic “Fundamentalism and the Protection of Religious Monuments and Sites.”

Meelis Süld - pastor, journalist and general secretary of the Council of Lutheran Churches in Great Britain - reflects on why church unity is important, and what are the ecumenical resources that help the most.

Rev. Prof. Dr Kuzipa Nalwamba, World Council of Churches (WCC) programme director for Unity, Mission, and Ecumenical Formation, visited Australia during late July and early August, offering a guest lecture at the United Theological College, preaching at local churches, and sharing an update on the WCC with local religious leaders. 

Rev. Prof. Dr Kuzipa Nalwamba, World Council of Churches (WCC) programme director for Unity, Mission, and Ecumenical Formation, offered the May McLeod lecture at the United Theological College in Australia on 30 July. 

In an address on 26 June, His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew warned that a third world war—this one against nature—is being waged.

As part of the commemoration of the 80th anniversary of the World Council of Churches (WCC) Ecumenical Institute at Bossey, two webinars will be held exploring the institute’s enduring contribution to ecumenical formation and its future role in advancing Christian unity, reconciliation, common witness, and diakonia.

World Council of Churches (WCC) General Secretary Rev. Prof. Dr Jerry Pillay and the Presidium of the South African Council of Churches (SACC) met with H.E. Cyril Ramaphosa, the President of the Republic of South Africa on 30 July 2026. 

The World Council of Churches (WCC) World Week for Peace in Palestine and Israel will focus on protecting children. 

Faith Sebwa is a teenage Kenyan climate campaigner. Her poem, “The Path of Justice,” has been set to music and the song video has just launched, supporting the Hope for Children Through Climate Justice initiative.

The World Council of Churches invites all member churches and people of good will to join in a Prayer for the Peaceful Reunification of the Korean Peninsula.

From 1 September to 4 October, churches worldwide will mark the Season of Creation. It runs five weeks, and is given to prayer and action for the care of creation. The theme this year is Living Water, drawn from Ezekiel 47. Ahead of it, the Green Anglicans Movement, Africa, will hold a webinar on 4 August to introduce the season, where it came from, and the new Feast of Creation now kept at its start.

World Council of Churches (WCC) programme executive for Spiritual Life Rev. Dr Mikie Roberts attended the Provincial Synod of the Moravian Church of Great Britain and Ireland, held from 9-13 July at the Hayes Conference Centre, Swanwick, Derbyshire.

The Multi-Religious Council of Leaders, brought together by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and Religions for Peace, strengthens collective efforts across regions and faiths to address root causes by supporting global advocacy, conflict prevention, reconciliation, peacebuilding, and social cohesion initiatives. Bishop Prof. Dr Heinrich Bedford-Strohm, World Council of Churches (WCC) central committee moderator, who recently attended his first meeting with the council, reflects on its important role and how churches can contribute.