WCC NEWS: WCC webpage available on ‘Coping with the Coronavirus’

The World Council of Churches (WCC), via a specific landing page on its website, is reaching out to the worldwide fellowship with a sense of pastoral care amid the coronavirus pandemic.

The page is available at www.oikoumene.org/corona

In view of the rapid spread of the virus in countries across the world, the page brings together the most essential information on where to find reliable updates on the situation, as well as how the WCC is responding.

“The WCC has dual roles at this time, both being an employer of staff in Switzerland  and in several other countries and a worldwide fellowship of churches. This web page is to make sure the most important information is readily available, so that we can help member churches to stay informed, but also so that we as a fellowship can help bring hope and light to how churches are, and can be, contributing to constructive responses to the coronavirus and its consequences for people’s lives, physically as well as spiritually,” says WCC director of communication Marianne Ejdersten.

On 17 March, the WCC published the first in a series of feature articles about the response of the WCC member churches and all people of goodwill to COVID-19. The purpose of the stories will be to share hopes, concerns and best practices among our one human family.

“In times like these, it is more important than ever to have clear information available. The content on the  page may seem simple, but that is also part of the strategy at this stage,” reflects Ejdersten.

WCC landing page: Coping with the Coronavirus

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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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