Dear students, movements, faith-based communities, and friends of the World Student Christian Federation,

Christmas returns each year, but it never finds the world unchanged.

We celebrate it while wars continue, while entire peoples live under occupation, and while life becomes increasingly fragile for millions. Each of our more than ninety member movements receives this season from different places, shaped by distinct memories, wounds, and hopes.

And yet, at Christmas, we choose to remember together.

Dear Senior Friends,

As this Christmas season arrives, I find myself thinking about everything we have lived together these past years—our challenges, our commitments, the quiet strength of this community—and about how deeply your presence has meant to the Federation.

The world our students inhabit is marked by conflict, democratic fragility, ecological disruption, and rising fundamentalisms. Yet across every region, young people continue to choose what is profoundly countercultural:

Faith as liberation.
Solidarity as resistance.
Ecumenism as a path toward peace with justice.

And it is your support—your trust, your encouragement, your generosity—that allows this witness to continue, even in the most difficult places. As we prepare to enter 2026, this shared vocation feels more urgent than ever. To begin the year with the strength and clarity our movements need, we depend on a final gesture of support before 31 December 2025.

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Christmas Global Prayer for Peace + Global Peace Campaign Launch “Reclaiming Otherness- Youth Building Peace with Justice”

Friday, 19 December — 12:00 GMT

This campaign was shaped by the experiences, wounds, and courage of students living through exclusion, violence, and social fragmentation. It is also nourished by spiritual and ethical traditions that have shaped WSCF across generations. It carries a simple conviction: Peace requires recognizing the Other again—seeing the face, the dignity, the story that conflict tries to erase.

Launching it at Christmas reminds us that God enters history through the vulnerable and unseen, calling us to rediscover encounter as a transformative act.

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We look forward to your presence!

Dr. Geevarghese Mor CoorilosAnnouncement

Dear Student Christian Movements,

Grace and peace to you.

We wish to share an important update regarding the leadership of our global Officers. As many of you are aware, the term of Dr. Geevarghese Mor Coorilos, our Chairperson, came to its conclusion in May 2025. In addition, one of our Co–Vice Chairpersons Ramy Hanna tendered their resignation in 2024. These changes were formally received and affirmed by the Executive Committee, which has authorized a participatory search process to ensure continuity in the governance of the Federation.

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WSCF The RedBook 2023.pdf

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PRESS RELEASE
WSCF Prepares for International Peacebuilding Training in Alexandria, Egypt

The World Student Christian Federation (WSCF) is moving forward with preparations for the in-person phase of its International Project: Peace, Dialogue and Cooperation in the Middle East, to be held in Alexandria, Egypt, from October 10 to 13, 2025.

This project, launched earlier this year, aims to equip ecumenical students and youth from the Middle East with practical tools for interfaith dialogue, reconciliation, and grassroots peacebuilding. The initiative brings together +25 selected participants from the region (Lebanon, Egypt, Syria, Palestine, Jordan, and Iraq) and builds on the Federation’s global commitment to justice, peace, ecumenism, and youth leadership.

The full text in Spanish may be read here:
FUMEC-ALC Política de Justicia de Géneros e Inclusión para el Buen Vivir
FUMEC-ALC PJGI - Glosario de Términos

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In the second half of 2023, WSCF-LAC embarked on a project to develop a gender policy to create safe spaces for the protection and well-being of its staff and members across the region. The policy aims to help WSCF become a federation that affirms diversity and rights for all people.

Scheduled for implementation in 2024, WSCF-LAC's Policy on Gender Justice and Inclusion for Buen Vivir (PGJI) reflects the region's identity and values its intercultural context and the challenges it presents. Building on the progress and work done by the Federation in the area of gender justice, the Gender Policy was developed with a commitment to intersectionality, utilising processes based on the concept and methodology of popular education.

The Universal Day of Prayer for Students (UDPS) is one of the longest established ecumenical events. The WSCF publishes ecumenical services of worship on a theme that relates to the Federation's theme of study for the year or responds to current events and issues of concern to the world's students.

UDPS 2025