Yasmin Church Finally Granted a Location to Worship After 15 Years
06/15/2021 Indonesia (International Christian Concern) – For fifteen years, Yasmin Church in Bogor, Indonesia has faced legal hurdles and religious intolerance as they...
Cross put back on Assyrian church in Iran, but Christians remain barred
A cross forcibly removed from the top of a 100-year-old Assyrian church in Iran was restored to its rightful place on 9 July, although...
Equal citizenship focus of panel discussion in Azerbaijan
The World Council of Churches (WCC) was represented at a panel discussion at the 5th World Forum on Intercultural Dialogue in Baku,...
Former Pennsylvania Chief Justice Backs Delay of Grand Jury Report
Harrisburg, Pa., Aug 8, 2018 / 04:30 pm (CNA).- The former chief justice of Pennsylvania’s Supreme Court has warned that the release of a...
WCC facilitates conversations on ecumenism at the Kirchentag
Conversations at the World Council of Churches (WCC) exhibition booth at the Kirchentag showed there is a growing interest in ecumenical movement...
Police in Algeria Close Down Another Church
10/21/2018 Algeria (International Christian Concern) – Algerian police shut the doors of a church on October 16. Government officials ordered the church to close in...
Prime Minister signs the decree to prepare the transfer of St. Nicholas Church to...
Today, members of the All-Ukrainian Council of Churches and Religious Organizations made a respective statement.
The decree was signed...
On International Women’s Day, WCC urges churches to join Thursdays in Black towards a...
“Gender justice must be the agenda of men as well as women,” said World Council of Churches (WCC) general secretary Rev. Dr Olav...
Festivities and dialogue launch new WCC journal
A lively interchange on the rapidly changing landscape of interreligious encounter marked the launch of a new journal at the Ecumenical Centre...
Family in India Continues to Worship Despite Warnings and Attack
03/07/2019 Washington D.C. (International Christian Concern) – “I was terrified for a moment when I saw a group of people with wooden sticks furiously making...