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Declaration Focuses on 'Witnessing and Anticipating Gender Justice in Unity and Diversity'

Marking 30 years since the adoption of the 1995 Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action, participants from the Asia Pacific member churches and partners of the World Council of Churches (WCC), met in Jakarta, Indonesia, to reflect theologically, contextually, and practically on the commitments of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action in the current global context.

WCC Executive Committee Opens in Hangzhou, China

The World Council of Churches (WCC) opened its executive committee meeting in Hangzhou, China, on 20 November, embarking on both a business agenda and a pilgrimage encounter with the people and churches in China, exploring the theme of "Christ, culture, and context."

WCC Meets With Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi

Egyptian president Abdel Fattah El-Sisi met with the leadership of the World Council of Churches (WCC) general secretary Rev. Prof. Dr Jerry Pillay and WCC central committee moderator Bishop Prof. Dr Heinrich Bedford-Strohm; Rev. Merlyn Hyde Riley, vice-moderator of the WCC central committee; and H.E. Archbishop Dr Vicken Aykazian, vice-moderator of the WCC central committee, on 28 October.

Sixth World Conference on Faith and Order Issues 'Call to All Christians'

"Let us aspire to live the unity for which Christ prayed, that the world may believe and experience God's gifts of healing, justice and abundant life," the Sixth World Conference on Faith and Order has said in a "Call to all Christians: Message of the Sixth World Conference on Faith and Order, " agreed on the last day of the 24-28 October gathering.
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