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WCC publishes “Health-Promoting Churches: Reflections on Health and Healing for Churches on Commemorative World Health Days”
The World Council of Churches (WCC) has released a new publication,“Health-Promoting Churches: Reflections on Health and Healing for Churches on Commemorative World Health Days,” that is designed to accompany churches and strengthen their health-related ministries.
New biography marks 120th anniversary of birth of ecumenical pioneer Visser ’t Hooft
A new English-language biography of Willem A. Visser ’t Hooft, the first general secretary of the World Council of Churches (WCC), has been published in the year that marks the 120th anniversary of his birth.
Latest issue of International Review of Mission addresses health as well as wider issues
The new issue of International Review of Mission includes a variety of articles, ranging from post-colonialism to public theology, and from mission models to Pope Francis’s apostolic exhortation. Two of the articles are specifically concerned with healing, which is a pertinent theme at this current period of the coronavirus. These two articles clearly indicate that the biblical concept of health consists as it does of the welfare, health, and prosperity of the individual person as well as of communities as a whole. Individuals are always part of the communities they belong to.
Latest issue of Ecumenical Review explores the “spirit of truth” in a digital age
Technology is transforming the world, and the latest issue of The Ecumenical Review, the quarterly journal of the World Council of Churches (WCC), offers theological and ethical perspectives on the digital age.
Dr Stephen Brown: how do we hang onto spirit of truth amid swirl of digitally-driven information?
Dr Stephen Brown is the editor of The Ecumenical Review. The most recent edition, “The Spirit of Truth in a Digital Age,” reflects on how our perceptions of reality are becoming dependent on the way communication and information ecosystems are organized and regulated as technology has developed.
مجلس الكنائس العالمي يصدر منشوراً إلكترونياً بعنوان "الصحة والأمل" للإفادة في خضم جائحة كوفيد-19
أصدر مجلس الكنائس العالمي مؤخراً منشوراً إلكترونياً بعنوان "الصحة والأمل: رسالة الكنيسة ووحدتها"، وهو مجموعة من المقالات المنشورة سابقاً تجد صداها فيما يعيشه العالم اليوم في مكافحته لجائحة كوفيد-19.
Dr Beate Jakob: "We are one body."
The World Council of Churches (WCC) has newly released an online publication, "Health and Hope: The Church in Mission and Unity," a collection of previously published articles that resonate with the worldwide struggle amid the COVID-19 pandemic. In conjunction with this resource, WCC communication is sharing personal perspectives from faith-based health experts across the world. Dr Beate Jakob is a consultant for health and healing with the German Institute for Medical Mission.
مجلس الكنائس العالمي يصدر منشوراً إلكترونياً بعنوان "الصحة والأمل" للإفادة في خضم جائحة كوفيد-19
أصدر مجلس الكنائس العالمي مؤخراً منشوراً إلكترونياً بعنوان "الصحة والأمل: رسالة الكنيسة ووحدتها"، وهو مجموعة من المقالات المنشورة سابقاً تجد صداها فيما يعيشه العالم اليوم في مكافحته لجائحة كوفيد-19.
WCC releases “Health and Hope” online publication as a resource amid COVID-19 pandemic
The World Council of Churches (WCC) has newly released an online publication, “Health and Hope: The Church in Mission and Unity,” a collection of previously published articles that resonate with the worldwide struggle amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
Online Issue of International Review of Mission offers “Mission Perspectives after Busan”
As the World Council of Churches prepares for its 11th Assembly in 2021, a special “virtual” issue of the WCC’s journal International Review of Mission is now available online presenting a set of 12 articles published following the WCC’s previous assembly in 2013 in Busan, Republic of Korea.