2024 WPCU Highlights

What a joy it has been to celebrate the 2024 Week of Prayer for Christian Unity with you! Thank you for your careful organization and dedicated prayer.

As we continue to pray for Christian unity, here are some highlights from WPCU celebrations from communities across the country (click on a photo below to see the full photo gallery with captions). Thank you to all who have sent photos and stories to us!

Want to share your photos and stories? Email Marina Fanous at wpcu-spuc@councilofchurches.ca and we'll get in touch with you.

(Coquitlam, BC) Participants gather for a fellowship lunch after the prayer service at All Saints Roman Catholic Parish.

(Pembroke, ON) Comedian Byron Trimble poses for a photo with the audience at Festival Hall in the Christian Unity extravaganza organized by Funny in a Good Way.

(Pierrefonds, QC) Church leaders, representatives and guests gather at St. George and St. Joseph Coptic Orthodox Church for the WPCU ecumenical celebration organized by the Canadian Centre for Ecumenism.

(Edmonton, AB) Fr Philippe Insoni, Pastor of St. Joachim Catholic Church, welcomes guests with a calabash of water.

(Edmonton, AB) Faith leaders and representatives are joined by a family from Burkina Faso, where the 2024 resources were prepared, at St. Joachim’s Catholic Church.

(Hamilton, ON) Church leaders and representatives participate in an ecumenical worship celebration at the Westdale Theatre.

(Vancouver, BC) Church leaders and guests participate in an ecumenical prayer service at John Paul II Pastoral Centre.

(Vancouver, BC) Community participants take part in an ecumenical prayer service at St Mary’s Parish.

(Vancouver, BC) Participants take part in an ecumenical prayer service at St Mark’s Parish at the University of British Columbia.

(Abbotsford, BC) Participants share a fellowship lunch after the ecumenical worship service at St. Ann’s Roman Catholic Church.

(Richmond, BC) Church leaders and representatives share in an ecumenical prayer service at South Arm United Church.

(Winnipeg, MB) Church leaders and representatives share in a city-wide ecumenical worship service at the Lutheran Church of the Cross.

(Winnipeg, MB) Church leaders share in a drink from the calabash at the Lutheran Church of the Cross.

(Gloucester, ON) Church leaders and representatives participate in an ecumenical worship service at St. George and St. Anthony Coptic Orthodox Church.

(Burlington, ON) Church leaders, representatives, and members of Christians on a Journey participate in an ecumenical prayer service at Archangel Raphael and St. Marina Coptic Orthodox Church.

(Markham, ON) Church leaders, representatives and guests gather at St. Mark Coptic Orthodox Cathedral for an afternoon of worship.

(Halifax, NS) Anglican, Baptist, Coptic Orthodox, Lutheran, Presbyterian, Roman Catholic clergy took part in the service held in Saint Mary’s Cathedral Basilica on Sunday afternoon.

(Saskatoon, SK) A calabash bowl, the central symbol for the 2024 WPCU, is set up and prepared to be used in the ecumenical service at the First Mennonite Church in Saskatoon.

(Saskatoon, SK) Participants share in an ecumenical worship service at Queen’s House Retreat and Renewal Centre in Saskatoon.

(Saskatoon, SK) For the first time since the pandemic, the United, Anglican, Evangelical Orthodox and Presbyterian churches participate in their WPCU tradition of morning prayer services and breakfast.

(Saskatoon, SK) For the first time since the pandemic, the United, Anglican, Evangelical Orthodox and Presbyterian churches participate in their WPCU tradition of morning prayer services and breakfast.