About Church of Blue Cross and Blue Crescent (ChBC)

The Church of Blue Cross and Blue Crescent (ChBC), is a non-governmental humanitarian agency that is part of the Blue Cross and Blue Crescent movement and is established as a treaty organization of the Conference of the Blue Cross and Blue Crescent Movement (CBCM).

As determined in the Charter of the Church, and as mandated by the Movement, the mission of the Church is to create a new era of interreligious denominational interaction, dialogue, unity and mutual support and respect for the different Christian denominations and foster a deeper spirit of togetherness in celebrations, prayers and services of thanks. Together, we implement the spiritual and religious programs providing spiritual guidance, counselling, and prayer in disaster effected regions, and provide spiritual awareness, education, and hope to disaster vulnerable communities.
The Church is a non-denominational Christian institution, not formally aligned with an established religious denomination, being an ecumenical interdenominational or interreligious confederation that unites a number of affiliating churches, clergy, lay ministers and members that are interested in positive, cooperative and constructive interaction between different Christian communities of different religious traditions to increase understanding and acceptance of each other.

The Church (ChBC) consider that each affiliating church community or congregation is independent and is better off being autonomous without any external directional influence intended on theological doctrine, policy and worship. The ChBC comprises of affiliated church communities of clergy and its lay members, and establishes affiliations with all Christian non-denominational congregations and denominational congregations.

The Church, knows only to well that its efforts for peace between nations is only achievable when there is peace between the different faiths, however we cannot expect peace between the different faiths until there is peace between the different Christian denominations, whilst the objectives of the Church is to bring about interreligious denominational interaction and dialogue, the objectives of its parent body of the Communion is to bring about interfaith interaction and dialogue.