Global Initiatives for Peace and Reconciliation: Colombia

Global Initiatives for Peace and Reconciliation: Colombia Many of the WCRC’s members and partners promote peace and reconciliation efforts in their contexts. The global office supports this work through a variety of means, including direct funding, accompaniment programs and visitations. In Colombia, the project for the accompaniment and verification of the peace agreement and implementation […]

International church-based organizations urge Colombian president to stop spiral of violence

The ACT Alliance, World Council of Churches, Lutheran World Federation, World Communion of Reformed Churches, Anglican Communion, World Methodist Council, Latin American Episcopal Council and World Association for Christian Communication, in a letter sent 18 May, urged Colombian president Iván Duque Marquéz to stop the spiral of violence that is doing terrible harm to the […]

WCRC calls for solidarity and protection of Colombian peacemakers

On Saturday, July 14, 2018, an illegal armed group, “Águilas Negras”, issued death threats towards a group of social leaders, human rights defenders, organizations and journalists. Among those named was JUSTAPAZ, a Christian Mennonite association that partners with the Presbyterian Church of Colombia through the platform DiPAZ (Interchurch Dialogue for Peace in Colombia) and has a long history […]

Colombia: Peace with social justice

Please join our sisters and brothers working for a lasting and just peace in Colombia: “Peace with social justice”—this is the premise on which the Colombian government and the insurgency of the FARC-EP embarked on their negotiations over the past years. And this is also the basis of the bilateral ceasefire agreement, signed a little […]

WCRC calls for renewed peace efforts in Colombia

The World Communion of Reformed Churches (WCRC) joins with our sisters and brothers in DiPaz Colombia (Diálogo Intereclesial por la Paz (Ecumenical Dialogue for Peace)) in calling for a renewed commitment to the peace process in Colombia, along with international prayer and support. In 2016, the Colombian government and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia […]

Statement on murder of Hernán Bedoya

The wicked watch for the righteous, and seek to kill them. The Lord will not abandon them to their power, or let them be condemned when they are brought to trial. Wait for the Lord, and keep to his way, and he will exalt you to inherit the land; you will look on the destruction […]

Peace process in Colombia is in danger, warns Council

by Stephen Brown Warning of dangers to a peace process in Colombia between the government and rebel movements, the World Communion of Reformed Churches has called on the Colombian government to ensure a negotiated end to the conflict is achieved. The “hoped-for peace is endangered because a sector of Colombian society that has maintained its […]

Historic peace agreement in Colombia hailed

The World Communion of Reformed Churches (WCRC) and its member churches pledge to continue their work with the Colombian people to secure a just peace. Chris Ferguson, WCRC general secretary, has hailed the Colombia peace agreement as “a significant step for both peace and justice in not only Colombia and Latin America but also for […]

Frieden in Kolumbien braucht Gebete und Unterstützung

Anfang des Monats haben leitende Persönlichkeiten der Presbyterianischen Kirche in Kolumbien, einer Mitgliedskirche der WGRK, ebenso wie andere Kirchenführer des Landes öffentliche Morddrohungen erhalten. Ein Bündnis von kolumbianischen Kirchen und Friedensorganisationen haben mit einem pastoralen Brief reagiert, in dem es heißt: Wir betrachten die Drohung, die gegen die Kirchen in Barranquila und gegen fünf ihrer […]

Prayers and support needed for peace in Colombia

Earlier this month leaders of the Presbyterian Church of Colombia, a member of the WCRC, as well as leaders in other churches, received very public death threats. A coalition of churches and peacemaking organisations in Colombia responded in a pastoral letter which states, in part: We also consider that the threat to churches in Barranquilla, […]