مجلس الكنائس العالمي

شعار مجلس الكنائس العالمي

مجلس الكنائس العالمي (بالإنجليزية: World Council of Churches) هومجلس كنائس فهمي تأسس في سنة 1948، ويتضمن معظم الكنائس البروتستانتية والأرثوذكسية شرقية، لكنها لا تتضمن الكنيسة الرومانية الكاثوليكية وهي موجودة فيها بصفة مراقب. وقد أنشأت هذا المجلس مع بدأ فترة المسكونية حيث بدأت الكنائس تدعوللوحدة.

جميع الكنائس الموجودة في هذا المجلس تؤمن حتى يسوع المسيح هوالمخلص طبقاً لنصوص الإنجيل وتؤمن بالثالوث، يقع مقر مجلس الكنائس في المجلس المسكوني في جنيف في سويسرا. ويضم هذا المجلس عدد كبير من الطوائف وألتي يتبعها أكثر من 590 مليون نسمة في العالم في 150 دولة. وتتضمن 520 ألف أبرشية يخدمها 493 ألف كاهن ومفهمين ولاهوتيين.

الأحداث والرؤساء

الاجتماعات

The World Council of Churches heldعشرة Assemblies to date, starting with the founding assembly in 1948:

Amsterdam, Netherlands, 22 August – أربعة September 1948
Evanston, Illinois, الولايات المتحدة, 15–31 August 1954
New Delhi, India, 19 November –خمسة December 1961
Uppsala, Sweden, 4–20 July 1968
Nairobi, Kenya, 23 November –عشرة December 1975
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada 24 July –عشرة August 1983
Canberra, ACT, Australia, 7–21 February 1991
Harare, Zimbabwe, 3–14 December 1998
Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, 14–23 February 2006
Busan, South Korea, 30 October -ثمانية November 2013

الرؤساء

The Presidents of the World Council of Churches are:

Africa: The Rev. Dr. Mary-Anne Plaatjies van Huffel (Uniting Reformed Church in Southern Africa)
Asia: The Rev. Dr. Chang Sang (Presbyterian Church in the Republic of Korea)
Europe: Archbishop Anders Wejryd (Church of Sweden)
Latin America and Caribbean: The Rev. Gloria Nohemy Ulloa Alvarado (Presbyterian Church in Colombia)
North America: The Most Rev. Mark L. MacDonald (Anglican Church of Canada)
Pacific: The Rev. Dr. Mele'ana Puloka (Free Wesleyan Church of Tonga)
Eastern Orthodox: John X of Antioch (Patriarch of the Greek Orthodox Church of Antioch)
Oriental Orthodox: Karekin II (Catholicos of the Armenian Apostolic Church)

A former president of the WCC was Rev. Martin Niemöller, the famous Protestant anti-Nazi theologian.

الأمناء العامون

Since the World Council of Churches was officially founded in 1948, the following men have served as general secretary:

الأعوام	الاسم	الكنائس	الجنسية
1948–1966	W. A. Visser 't Hooft	Reformed Churches in the Netherlands/Federation of Swiss Protestant Churches, Geneva	Netherlands
1966–1972	Eugene Carson Blake	United Presbyterian Church (USA)	الولايات المتحدة
1972–1984	Philip A. Potter	Methodist Church	Dominica
1985–1992	Emilio Castro	Evangelical Methodist Church of Uruguay	Uruguay
1993–2003	Konrad Raiser	Evangelical Church in Germany (EKD)	Germany
2004–2009	Samuel Kobia	Methodist Church in Kenya	كنيا
2010–الحاضر	Olav Fykse Tveit	كنيسة النرويج	النرويج

انتقادات

تغلغل ونفوذ الكي جي بي

الموقف تجاه إسرائيل

The World Council of Churches has been described as taking an adversarial position toward the state of Israel. It has also been claimed the council has focused particularly on activities and publications criticizing Israel in comparison with other human rights issues. It is similarly claimed that it downplayed appeals from Egyptian Copts about human rights abuses under Sadat and Mubarak, in order to focus on its neighbour. In 2009, the Council called for an international boycott on goods produced in Israeli settlements, which it described as 'illegal, unjust' and 'incompatible with peace'. In 2013, the General Secretary was reported to claim in Cairo, "We support the Palestinians. The WCC supports the Palestinians, because they are in the right." The WCC's Ecumenical Accompaniment Programme in Palestine and Israel (EAPPI) has been criticised by the Board of Deputies for promoting "an inflammatory and partisan programme at the expense of its interfaith relations". The WCC secretariat was involved in preparing and helped disseminate the Kairos Palestine Document, which declares “the Israeli occupation of Palestinian land is a sin against God and humanity because it deprives the Palestinians of their basic human rights”, and in the view of one critic, its "authors want to see a single state ".

معارضة الصهيونية المسيحية

Christian Zionists, who have long represented a substantial proportion of historic and contemporary Protestants, are characterised as those "distort the interpretation of the Word of God" and "damage intra-Christian relations".

A professor emeritus of political science outlined the WCC's focus as having "shifted the discussion of the disturbing problems of the Middle East from the acute ones in Syria, Lebanon, Iraq, Egypt, and Iran, to the alleged deficiencies of Israel."

In this context, what is a source of concern is that Islamic fundamentalisms are giving rise to a counter reaction of other religious fundamentalisms, the most dangerous of which is Jewish fundamentalism which exploits the Islamic fundamentalist phenomenon to justify before western societies the distasteful aberrations of Zionism in Palestine.

انظر أيضاً

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John Romanides
Joseph Oldham
Nathan Soderblom
Charles Henry Brent
Christian ecumenism
Conference of Secretaries of World Christian Communions
World Summit of Religious Leaders
برنامج لمكافحة العنصرية
Authorship of the Bible

الهامش

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