Minister of Religious Affairs appoints commissioners to investigate Khartoum church attack

The Sudanese Minister of Religious Affairs and Endowments has appointed five commissioners to investigate a series of attacks on the Sudan Church...

This Kenyan nun runs a program for girls with disabilities

At a one-room house outside Nairobi, a 23-year-old girl with disabilities claps her hands and throws herself at Sr. Rose Catherine Wakibiru,...

WCC Health and Healing builds on experience with HIV response to cope with COVID-19

The World Council of Churches (WCC) Ecumenical HIV and AIDS Initiatives and Advocacy  International Reference Group and the WCC Ecumenical Advocacy Alliance...

Culture is about ‘creating, not destroying’ says sculptor

Tired and heartbroken at seeing statues get pulled down and vandalized, Canadian sculptor Timothy Schmalz wracked his brain to come up with...

In Ghana, young entrepreneurs carve a faith-based path to “zero-waste” economy

As Jonathan Kofi Dugbartey and Janice Adukwei Allotey showed photos of clothing and accessories during a recent World Council of Churches (WCC)...

Churches targeted despite positive developments

A temporary straw church building belonging to the Sudanese Church of Christ (SCOC) in Jabarona, Ombada, Omdurman, was set on fire on...

Pope Francis laments that tons of food is thrown away as people starve

In a video message for World Food Day Friday, Pope Francis expressed concern that tons of food is being thrown away while...

Hagia Triada Church to Become Cultural Museum

11/15/2020 Turkey (International Christian Concern) –  The long neglected Greek Orthodox Church of Hagia Triada, located on Turkey’s coast with the Aegean Sea,...

ERCC Member Repeatedly Summoned by Police

12/19/2020 China (International Christian Concern) – A member from the heavily persecuted house church in Chengdu has been repeatedly summoned by the police,...

Vatican gradually to defund some mission territories

Earlier this month the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples sent a letter to the bishops of some 1,100 Catholic territories and...
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WCC executive committee statement urges “Christian witness and action for human dignity and human...

The World Council of Churches (WCC) executive committee published a statement entitled “Christian witness and action for human dignity and human rights,” in...

Four Students Injured as Myanmar Military Shells Bible School in Shan State

Four men were wounded as a Myanmar military (Tatmadaw) shell struck the premises of a Bible school in northern Shan State on November 3.

WCC acting general secretary: “We are a fellowship united by faith for action”

In his last report to the World Council of Churches (WCC) executive committee, WCC acting general secretary Rev. Prof. Dr Ioan Sauca...