☦ Today Thursday, October 22 / October 9 (old style) 🍽 Fast-free day Gregorian calendar ⇄

St Abercius, Equal-to-the-Apostles · Venerable Lot of Egypt (5th c.)

← News feed Pan-Orthodox

From Status Confessionis to Global Communion: Belhar’s Unfinished Call to the Whole Oikoumene

October 22, 2026 · 1 min read

From Status Confessionis to Global Communion: Belhar’s Unfinished Call to the Whole Oikoumene

msc

Thu, 10/22/2026 - 13:20

World Council of Churches (WCC) general secretary Rev. Prof. Dr Jerry Pillay offered a keynote address during a World Communion of Reformed Churches (WCRC) conference on “ Standing Where God Stands: 40th Anniversary of the Belhar Confession,” underway from 19–23 October, in Pretoria, South Africa.

General Secretary

File 2026-10-20 J. Pillay_Belhar_WCC_Integrated_Ecumenical_Reception_Paper (428.33 KB)

Source: World Council of Churches · Read the full story →

⚑ Report

💬 Comments

Sign in to join the conversation →

More stories

Serbian Patriarch Porfirios and Geron Ephraim on Pemptousia TV on Friday, October 23

Church of Greece · October 22, 2026

The Minister of Culture from Cyprus participated in a cultural event organized by the Romanian Embassy

Romanian Orthodox Church · October 22, 2026

Visit of Metropolitan Thessaliotidos to Mouzaki and Proastio High Schools

Church of Greece · October 22, 2026

Patriarch of Romania to Bartholomew: We express our appreciation for your pastoral and missionary work

Pan-Orthodox · October 22, 2026