Council for World Mission celebrates the news of the election of its Moderator, Rev Lydia Neshangwe as the Moderator-elect of the Uniting Presbyterian Church in Southern Africa (UPCSA) 2023 – 2025. The General Assembly, at [...]
At its Annual Members’ Meeting, held electronically on 15-17 June 2021, Council for World Mission (CWM) reflected on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on peoples and countries around the world, with particular attention given [...]
We salute you on this International Women’s Day (IWD), which is celebrated each year on March 8 since the early 1900s, to shine the spotlight on women and their rights. The theme of 2021 is [...]
The Amis tribe is the largest of 16 official tribes in Taiwan, and the Western Amis Presbytery of The Presbyterian Church in Taiwan (PCT), where Rev John McCall from PC (U.S.A) serves, includes most of [...]
The COVID-19 pandemic continues to cast a dark cloud over several countries battling the second wave of COVID-19 infections – a threat lurking around the corner for others. Compounding this problem are issues of inequality [...]
Congregational Federation (CF) and United Reformed Church (URC) are members of Churches Together in England (CTE), whose presidents have issued a statement exhorting churches to embark on the journey of racial justice, with self-reflection and [...]
United Nations Human Rights Council debate on “current racially inspired human rights violations, systematic racism, police brutality against people of African descent and violence against peaceful protests.” As people of faith, we welcome the debate [...]
PCT elected its first female Moderator, Rev Abus Takisvilainan, during its 65th General Assembly on 17 June. This was a nod to gender justice, and affirmation and advocacy of the gifts, humanity and right of [...]
‘I can’t breathe!’ These were the terrified and terrifying words of George Floyd, as he was pinned to the ground by a white policeman in an illegal act of police violence and extra-judicial murder in [...]
Religious leaders have staged a silent protest against brutality by law enforcement officers at St Alban's Anglican Cathedral, Pretoria on 7 June, following the absolving of Defence Force members involved in the death of Collins [...]
The current Covid-19 pandemic has disrupted every aspect of our lives in a world already plagued with immense human suffering. In response, four organisations – the World Council of Churches (WCC), the World Communion of [...]
A series of two e-conferences held on 17 and 24 April, brought together some 25 participants to reflect on the socio-economic-ecological impacts of the COVID-19 crisis and how it offers the world an opportunity to [...]
Council for World Mission (CWM) pauses to express solidarity and to offer the assurance of our prayers on behalf of all those who have been infected with the deadly coronavirus (COVID-19) and with the families [...]
A new year breaks with fresh opportunities and possibilities for those who are prepared to imagine a future, transformed by the grace of God, which compels us to acknowledge and repent of our wrong and [...]
During Advent, we await God’s incarnation where God was made flesh and dwelt among us (John 1:14). These four Sundays before Christmas, we prepare to welcome the coming of Jesus into Mary’s arms, into our [...]
On INSiGHT’s first birthday this October, we rejoice and celebrate the generosity of our writers and readers across the world who have made this publication possible with their contributions. As with every issue of INSiGHT, [...]
https://youtu.be/zoWtxcNLEPE Recognizing the lacuna of young women within our ecclesial structures, the Young Women Enabling Transformation (YWET) Programme is a Council for World Mission (CWM) initiative specifically directed towards the building of a collective of [...]
Friday, 15 March 2019 Council for World Mission (CWM) shares the pain and grief of the people of New Zealand in this time of unprecedented tragedy in that country. There can be no way to [...]
In 2016 Council for World Mission (CWM) chose as its Assembly theme, “Healing: Hope in Action”. Over the years since then, we have been focusing on different aspects and expressions of that theme, believing that [...]
New York, NY, April 22 - The 3rd meeting of the Ecumenical Panel on a New International Financial and Economic Architecture (NIFEA) took place on April 21 and 22, 2018 in New York to coincide [...]
Twenty persons drawn from member churches and ecumenical movements in the Caribbean region of Council for World Mission met for a Regional Assembly themed “Healing the Broken Body – Exploring Human Sexuality” in Kingston, Jamaica [...]
As a way to further explore Mission in the context of Empire, CWM Mission Development has produced a series of reflections on ‘stations of the resurrection’ as we explore what the appearances of the risen [...]
To mark Holy Week, CWM’s Mission Development Team has produced some reflections which use the pattern of the stations of the cross to reflect on the legacies of slavery. The traditional 14 stations have been [...]
Our History PCS was set up by missionaries sent by the London Missionary Society to Singapore some time in the 18th century to spread the Gospel to immigrants from China. In 1966, the Synod joined [...]
By Research and Capacity Development Team “We need young people who will not compromise their faith for comfort; we need young people who will not destroy their soul for bread; and who will not collude [...]
CÂR DI The General Secretaries and staff missionary secretaries of CWM met in Cardiff, the capital of Wales in September 2017. As part of their introduction to Wales, they were taken to Maesyronnen, dating to [...]
The new CWM Moderator and Moderator of the Presbyterian Church in India (PCI) Rev DC Haia launched CWM’s new Disability Action Project and Grant Programme at the Head Office of CWM in Singapore. The Moderator [...]
On behalf of Council for World Mission I greet you and wish you a holy and peace-filled Easter. As the Christian community around the world celebrate this Easter season, we cannot help but observe the [...]
The message and the miracle of Christmas is that God’s love greeted a perishing world wrapped in the simplicity of a child, born of ordinary parents in a lowly stable. Some two thousand years ago [...]
Council for World Mission wishes to express its commitment to solidarity with the people in the Middle East in their struggles. This Christmas our thoughts and prayers are with the people in Palestine. Our Christmas [...]
“What separates us is not the theology of our faith but its politics” said Rev. Dr. Collin Cowan while delivering his key note address at the Interfaith Consultation held in Kolkata that was inaugurated on [...]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qfWAqdv_g2M At the invitation of the Council for World Mission, a global community of churches together in mission, we gathered on 28–31 October 2015 in Bethlehem – in occupied Palestine to consider “Mission in the [...]
23 - 28th July, Apia, Samoa On the 24th July 2015, the Pacific Region met in Apia, Samoa for their Regional Round Table. As part of our immersion experience in the context of Samoa we [...]
Understanding mission in theological education in the changing landscape of the 21st century
