Planning for 2025 General Council accelerates

Plans and preparations for the 2025 General Council took significant strides with a joint meeting in Chiang Mai, Thailand, between the General Council Planning Committee and General Council Worship Committee. The Church of Christ in Thailand (CCT) will… Read More

Advocacy campaigns take shape in Africa

The WCRC’s GRAPE project took another significant step forward during the first face-to-face meeting of advocacy teams in Windhoek, Namibia, in March. GRAPE—the Global Reformed Advocacy Platforms for Engagement—is a project that seeks to address the enormity and… Read More

Consultation on food crisis unfolds deep theological meanings

The World Council of Churches (WCC) cohosted an online consultation on 12 April to address the pressing issue of the converging food and debt crises. The event invited churches, ecumenical partners including the World Communion of Reformed Churches… Read More

Christians pray for peace in a broken world

During a Global Peace Prayer on 22 March, Christians across the world drew together to pray for peace in a broken world, and to listen to voices from people suffering in Ukraine and other conflict-ridden areas. Hans Lessing,… Read More

All invited to join global peace prayer

And they shall beat their swords into ploughshares, and their spears into pruning-hooks; nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more. —Isaiah 2:4 (NRSV) Christians are called into prayer and advocacy… Read More

Communion mourns passing of Omega Bula

The World Communion of Reformed Churches (WCRC) joins its ecumenical siblings around the world in mourning the passing of Omega Chilufya Bula, who passed away on 31 January from heart complications after a long battle with cancer. “Omega… Read More

Applications invited for Rome liaison

The World Communion of Reformed Churches (WCRC), along with the Church of Scotland, and in partnership with the Tavola Valdese, are seeking a person to serve in Rome, Italy, as both the minister of St. Andrew’s Church and… Read More

Internship applications for 2023 invited

The World Communion of Reformed Churches (WCRC) is accepting applications for its internship programme. The programme gives highly qualified young people an opportunity to gain valuable experience working with an international ecumenical organization. The internship will be for… Read More

Applications invited for GEM School 2023

Applications are open for the Ecumenical School on Governance, Economics and Management (GEM School) for an Economy of Life, which will be held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia from 21 August through 1 September 2023. In order to strengthen… Read More

Commendations sent on appointment of women to negotiate Colombian peace agreement

In a letter to Colombian president Gustavo Petro Urrego, and to the high commissioner for peace Danilo Rueda Rodriguéz, the World Council of Churches, World Communion of Reformed Churches, and ACT Alliance congratulated the government of Colombia for… Read More