News about the WCC US office

The December 2007 young adult ecumenical leaders gathering looked to bring together 15 young adult leaders from at least a dozen U.S. Conference member churches, representing several young adult ecumenical initiatives. It was the hope of the that these concerns would be addressed through: building stronger relationships amongst those represented, creating a greater awareness of young adult ecumenical initiatives throughout the U.S. and beyond,...

Staff at the US Conference for the WCC recently received a visit from Rev. Doris Go-Baluyos who, in 1988, arrived in the United States from the Phillipines as a World Council of Churches scholar. This was her first return visit to the United States since completing her scholarship studies.

Churches and society at large need to offer reparation to descendants of those enslaved, tortured and murdered by the transatlantic slave trade, says an international conference sponsored by three major ecumenical organizations.

The Ecumenical Accompaniment Program in Palestine and Israel, an initiative of the World Council of Churches, has launched a new Website for its US program.

Can churches be peacemakers in a world racked by violence? This is the question to be addressed by World Council of Churches (WCC) general secretary Rev. Dr Samuel Kobia at the Washington National Cathedral, Washington DC, on Sunday, 16 December 2007.

The Living Letters team visit to the US, as part of the Decade to  Overcome Violence and its journey leading up to the International  Ecumenical Peace Convocation (IEPC), found peace and non-violence the main foci of the visit. While the opportunities for learning were many fold, exciting and challenging, the hosts of the visit were thrilled to have guests from all over the world - guests interested in what is happening on the ground in regard...

The legacies of the slave trade, and how churches can respond to past and present forms of slavery, are going to be discussed at an ecumenical conference to be held 10-14 December in Runaway Bay, Jamaica. About sixty theologians, church leaders, social scientists and activists, mainly from Africa, the Americas and the Caribbean will gather in the country where nearly one million Africans and later indentured servants from Asia were exploited as...

Rev. Canon Dr John Saint Helier Gibaut, from the Anglican Church of Canada, will head the World Council of Churches (WCC) Commission on Faith and Order as of January 2008.

Two outstanding personalities, known to the ecumenical family for their achievements in faith-based advocacy and interfaith dialogue, have been engaged by the Geneva-based World Council of Churches (WCC) to complete its leadership team. The newly appointed staff members will head the programme on Public witness and the programme on Inter-religious dialogue and cooperation. The appointments complete a reconfiguration of the WCC staff leadership...

Members of an international ecumenical team representing the World Council of Churches (WCC) left the United States enriched and encouraged by the signs of hope and community commitment they witnessed at a nine-day solidarity visit during which they met US Christians struggling with issues of gun control, war and a culture of violence.