Justice, diakonia and responsibility for creation

Justice, Diakonia and Responsibility for Creation

: Child holds mine-awareness poster, Angola 2002
ACT photo/Paul Jeffrey

The ecumenical commitment to justice and enabling people to transform their own lives involves meeting immediate human need, enabling churches to work together to address the structural roots of injustice, and also helping them to identify and combat threats to creation itself.

This programme will attempt to hold these different forms of ecumenical engagement with justice, diakonia and responsibility for creation together in new ways.

Projects

Ecumenical solidarity and regional relations: This project supports practical actions of solidarity in response to emerging priorities and expressed needs, with a particular focus on work for justice and diakonia. It particularly nurtures and strengthens relations with the WCC constituency in the respective regions.
Migration and social justice: This project supports churches' networking and advocacy with uprooted people, and their efforts to explore the links between migration, racism and interfaith relations.
Faith, science and technology: This project provides space for reflection and advocacy on the use/misuse of science and new technologies, including bio-, information, energy and surveillance technologies.
Climate change and water: This project encourages work on the ecological and social effects of climate change in relation to "natural" disasters, development, water and the right to water, energy suply, security concerns, nuclear testing, rising sea levels, local engagement and national and international advocacy.
Health and healing: This project supports the churches’ work in the field of health and healing with particular emphasis on HIV/AIDS, mental health, and the promotion of reconciliation and the "healing of memories".
HIV/AIDS Initiative in Africa (EHAIA): This project reinforces the capacity of African churches to prevent the spread of HIV and AIDS, provide care and counselling, eliminate stigma and discrimination.