Pope Francis has made "a heartfelt appeal" to "stop every action that could stoke the spiral of violence and risk dragging the Middle East into a much bigger war conflict" on the morning after Iran's attack on Israel.
World Council of Churches general secretary Rev. Jerry Pillay says the WCC cannot reconcile the Decree of the XXV World Russian People's Council, whose head is the Orthodox Patriarch, and which described the conflict in Ukraine as a "Holy War."
Peace in Colombia has been a long time coming, Juan Carlos Cuéllar, representative of the Ejército de Liberación Nacional (ELN), said at a World Council of Churches panel discussion titled "The things that make for peace in Colombia" on April 9.
Leaders of the Jewish, Christian, Muslim, and Druze faiths in Haifa, recently called for coexistence in the northern Israeli city amid the tensions sparked by the war in Gaza.
World Council of Churches general secretary Rev. Jerry Pillay has condemned the killing of aid workers in Gaza, and extended condolences to the families and friends of those who died in an Israeli airstrike.
A group of 13 young women from the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America have participated in advocacy for rights and beliefs at the United Nations in New York in conjunction with the Commission on the Status of Women.
The enduring conflict between Myanmar's military junta and opposing forces has heavily impacted Christians and their places of worship in Chin state, the country's only Christian-majority state, a report by the UK-based Centre for Information Resilience shows.
Eighty percent of U.S. adults say religion's role in American life is shrinking, but many people are not happy about that finding in the data, a new Pew Research Center survey has found.
On March 17, there are celebrations around the world for Saint Patrick's Day to celebrate the patron saint of Ireland, adopted by many, notably in the United States and other countries settled by Irish people. Like many holy feasts, St. Patrick's Day has morphed from a holy feast day to a secular festival, but his role for migrants is seen as special.
