After its recent biannual meeting in Colombia, the World Council of Churches (WCC) executive committee announced one of its 2025 governance meetings to be held in China.
According to the official article titled “WCC Executive Committee Brought Historic Steps on Pilgrimage in Colombia,” the WCC executive committee plans to meet in China on November 19–25, 2025. This is under the invitation of the China Christian Council, which became a WCC member church in 1991.
On November 17–23, 2016, WCC, the global fellowship representing 600 million Christians, held its executive committee meeting in Shanghai and Nanjing. More than twenty members of the committee attended it.
The 25-person executive committee, the WCC governing body, meets twice a year to “monitor ongoing work, supervise the budget, and deal with policy matters referred to it by the Central Committee.”
The 70th meeting of the central committee will take place in Johannesburg, South Africa, on June 18–24, 2025.
The year 2025 will be “an ecumenical year on the pilgrimage of justice, reconciliation, and unity.” The WCC will celebrate the 1700th anniversary of the First Ecumenical Council at Nicaea in 325 and the 100th anniversary of the Universal Christian Conference on Life and Work in Stockholm in 1925.
The recently concluded meeting in Bogota was said by WCC general secretary Rev. Prof. Dr. Jerry Pillay to be “a marvelous immersion experience in the Colombian context.” WCC moderator Bishop Dr. Heinrich Bedford-Strohm introduced that “public statements on very controversial issues, like the Gaza war, were in the end adopted in consensus.”
