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The World Council of Churches (WCC) is a worldwide Christian inter-church organization founded in 1948 to work for the cause of ecumenism.
O Conselho Mundial de Igrejas (CMI; em inglês, World Council of Churches, WCC) é a principal organização ecumênica em nível internacional, fundada em 1948, em Amsterdam, Neerlândia. Com sede em Genebra, Suíça. O CMI congrega mais de 340 igrejas e denominações cristãs.
Learn how the WCC was founded in 1937-38 and evolved over the decades to include more than 345 churches from different regions and traditions. Explore the historical roots, achievements, challenges and vision of the ecumenical movement.
25 June 2023, Geneva, Switzerland: Birthday cake pictured as the World Council of Churches central committee – gathered in Geneva on 21-27 June 2023 for its first full meeting following the WCC 11th Assembly in Karlsruhe in 2022 – celebrates 75 years since the founding of the Council in 1948.
The WCC is the broadest and most inclusive expression of the ecumenical movement, bringing together over 580 million Christians from 352 churches in more than 120 countries. It seeks to advance towards visible unity in one faith and one eucharistic fellowship, and to promote common witness, service and renewal.
World Council of Churches, ecumenical organization founded in 1948 in Amsterdam as ‘a fellowship of Churches which accept Jesus Christ our Lord as God and Saviour.’. The WCC is not a church, nor does it issue orders or directions to the churches. It works for the unity and renewal of Christian denominations.
Baptism, Eucharist and Ministry (BEM), also known as the Lima Document, is a Christian ecumenical document adopted by members of the World Council of Churches in Lima in January 1982. The document attempted to express the convergences that had been found over the years.
