As of 4 May 2020, the World Council of Churches (WCC) Annual Review 2019 is available for download online. The annual review records many of the WCC’s activities undertaken in 2019 and continuing into 2020.“As we look back on 2019, we mark together many milestones on our Pilgrimage of Justice and Peace, which since 2013 has been our way of describing the ecumenical movement,” writes former WCC general secretary Rev. Dr Olav Fykse Tveit in the foreword. "Through this approach, we have walked together as pilgrims, in our minds and in our moves.”
Tveit writes that we are motivated by our faith in the triune God and guided by the moral imperative of love.
“We have prayed — and we continue to pray — to the God of life, God of grace, God of love, for signs of justice and peace, true signs of the presence of God’s reign among us,” Tveit writes. “As we have moved into 2020, we have faced a new challenge as one humanity: a pandemic. We see how the fellowship of churches can serve all human beings in their pastoral, practical and prophetic role by caring for all humanity, sharing the truth in solidarity and love with one another, and particularly the most vulnerable.”
Download the WCC’s Annual Review 2019 (soon to be available also in French, German, and Spanish.)
The World Council of Churches promotes Christian unity in faith, witness and service for a just and peaceful world. An ecumenical fellowship of churches founded in 1948, today the WCC brings together 350 Protestant, Orthodox, Anglican and other churches representing more than 550 million Christians in over 120 countries, and works cooperatively with the Roman Catholic Church. The WCC general secretary is the Rev. Dr Olav Fykse Tveit, from the [Lutheran] Church of Norway.
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