WCRC Welcomes the Call from Arusha
For many years the World Communion of Reformed Churches (WCRC) has been inviting Christians and the ecumenical community into a creative and constructive resistance to a market system that has denied and continues to deny life to people and the planet. The Call from Arusha, the message from the recently concluded Conference on World Mission […]
New executive staff named
The World Communion of Reformed Churches (WCRC) will welcome a pair of new executive secretaries to its staff in January 2018. Philip Peacock joins as the executive secretary for justice and witness while Hanns Lessing comes on as the executive secretary for theology and communion. Peacock, an ordained presbyter in the Church of North India, […]
WCRC condemns white supremacism in USA
The “largest hate-rally of its kind in decades in the United States” was countered by a determined group of clergy and thousands of other activists over the weekend in Charlottesville, Virginia, USA. One counter-demonstrator was killed and more than a dozen injured after the demonstration was cancelled by government authorities. An interfaith service, held on […]
A red thread links Council participants and artists on Leipzig’s Nikolaikirchhof
By Amy Eckert. Photos by Anna Siggelkow. Hundreds of General Council delegates joined in a silent walk from Leipzig’s Willy-Brandt Platz to the St. Nicholas Church on Saturday, July 1. In their hands they carried a portion of red thread knitted by women from a local senior center over the course of two weeks. In […]
WCRC members create justice-themed theatrical performance
By Amy Eckert, photo by Fritz Baarlink They arrived from five continents and 11 nations: Brazil and South Africa, Pakistan and Argentina, Canada and Ghana. Fifteen Reformed church members, none of them professional actors and all of them strangers to one another, arrived in Berlin in advance of the 2017 General Council of the World […]
Global gathering challenged to overcome church entanglement with injustice
by Stephen Brown In a world marked by injustice and discrimination, churches need to recognize how they are intertwined with structures of power if they are to promote justice and solidarity, a global gathering of Reformed Christians has heard. “The world is calling upon the faith leaders to use their power for justice for the […]
Welcome into your home
We join with our member churches to oppose the recent Executive Order issued by President Trump and call for members of the Communion to join in prayer and action.
Greek evangelicals welcome refugees
It began with simple acts of hospitality and has since become a life-changing mission. The arrival of thousands upon thousands of Middle Eastern refugees more than a year ago shocked members of the Greek Evangelical Church (GEC) into action. Already assisting fellow Greeks who were struggling through tough economic times, the GEC members couldn’t ignore […]
WCRC Europe task force addresses migration issues
The unprecedented flood of refugees into Europe prompted the Council of the World Communion of Reformed Churches in Europe (WCRC Europe) to create a “Task Force on Migration and Refugee” to explore appropriate responses to the crisis. These responses include deepening theological reflections on migration, engaging in a dialogue about Christian-Muslim relations, partnering with Middle […]
North Americans welcome refugees, immigrants
The flow of refugees to Europe may have been curtailed in the past month, but it never even started to North America. This has frustrated many in the United States and Canada who have witnessed the crisis from a distance. At the same time, immigration, especially to the United States, has become a contentious political […]