A delegation from the Geneva-based World Council of Churches (WCC) will take part in the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (UNCSD) from 20 to 22 June in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
13 June 2012
In a message to the United Nations Rio+20 Earth Summit being held in Brazil this month, His All Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew has challenged national leaders and delegates to look beyond the surface of ecological afflictions in order to probe their root causes.
08 June 2012
The Anglican Alliance for Development, Relief and Advocacy has produced a resource pack with information, Bible studies and activities for use during the Rio+20 United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development.
08 June 2012
WEEKLY REVIEW: A roundup of the week's Anglican Communion news plus opinion, reviews, photos, profiles and other things of interest from across the Anglican/Episcopal world.
08 June 2012
On the final day of the meeting Bishop Michael Doe presented a report on the future of the Anglican Communion’s representation at the United Nations in New York and Geneva.
01 June 2012
Day two began with a short presentation by the Revd Terrie Robinson the Anglican Networks Co-ordinator and Women’s Desk Officer on the efforts of the Anglican Communion against gender-based violence
31 May 2012
[Ecumenical News International, Geneva] The World Council of Churches joined the international community in condemning the massacre of at least 108 people, including 49 children, on 25 May in the villages of Taldou and Kall Laha in the El Houleh area of Syria.
31 May 2012
[Ecumenical News International] The Geneva-based World Council of Churches (WCC) said it will hold its first meeting in the People’s Republic of China, focusing on “the unique situation of Chinese churches and ecumenical relations” in the region.
31 May 2012
In his contribution to BBC Radio 2's Pause For Thought programme this morning, the Archbishop of Canterbury expresses his hope that The Queen’s Diamond Jubilee will give people the 'chance to get in touch with the background of their lives, the big context, the things that make this the sort of world it is and give us the sort of values we have'.
31 May 2012
The Standing Committee—comprising elected members of the Anglican Consultative Council, the Primates’ Standing Committee and the Archbishop of Canterbury—met for its three-day annual meeting in London
30 May 2012