Feature stories 
14. Июня 07
Villagers in eastern Uganda tackle water scarcity through Anglican partnerships
Khadija Kagoya, a widow and a mother of six, hails from Busowobi, a village in Uganda's Busoga region about 120 kilometres east of Kampala, whose inhabitants grow maize, cassava and bananas for a livelihood. Busowobi used to suffer from a lack of sufficient and safe water, and from water-borne diseases. But that was before community members, including Kagoya, got involved in a campaign against water scarcity initiated by the Busoga Trust, an...
7. Июня 07
Darfur crisis sparked off over water; smaller water conflicts also lethal says water conference
From Darfur in western Sudan to Mt Elgon in Kenya, the absence of water for rural communities is emerging as a major cause of conflict on the African continent. In Darfur, the story is one of pain and desperation for the nearly two million displaced persons. And the organizations that work in the area are convinced that it is battles for water and pasture that sparked it off.
24. Мая 07
Melting ice caps on Mt Kenya and Kilimanjaro need action now
"In my childhood, the water was so clear that you could see the hard rock at the bottom. Fishing for trout was so easy. We enjoyed it. When we used our fishing rods, we could see ourselves catching the fish," says Professor Jesse Mugambi, a member of the World Council of Churches (WCC) working group on Climate Change. "But then we started to grow coffee and tea. First the rivers were polluted because of erosion, and then there was...
17. Мая 07
World Mission and Evangelism Conference recommended for 2011
A global conference on Christian mission has been proposed for late 2011 by the Commission on World Mission and Evangelism of the World Council of Churches (WCC). The commission, newly elected and reconstituted following the WCC's February 2006 assembly in Porto Alegre, Brazil, includes delegates from member churches of the Council as well as from the Roman Catholic Church and several other Christian bodies not in full membership of the WCC. The...
28. Февраля 07
For Kobia, India visit a "memorable experience" of churches' "vibrant life"
Just before his departure for Geneva, Switzerland, World Council of Churches (WCC) general secretary Rev. Dr Samuel Kobia summed up his impressions of his recently concluded visit to southern India by saying that it had been an unparalleled opportunity to experience the "vibrant life" of the churches and their local traditions.
26. Января 07
A story in a glass of muddy water
A glass of water could tell a whole story. Like the glass Dunstan Ddamulira was offered recently in the Ugandan countryside. "In my country [Uganda]," Ddamulira says, "you can't be refused water to drink. So I stopped by at this house and asked for a glass of water. A girl gave it to me. It was 50 percent mud." And to prove what he says, he shows a picture he took with his cell phone. It is 50 percent mud.
24. Января 07
Seeds of life - looking for alternatives to the dominant agrobusiness model
Why have an alarming number of Indian farmers taken their lives over the last years? Why are people in the rural Jang Seong county near Kwangju, South Korea, getting involved in organic farming? Why are church-sponsored organizations in Brazil working to recover native seeds? The answer to these questions has a lot to do with the impact of economic globalization on agriculture, where two models are currently locked in a life-and-death contest.
28. Ноября 06
An "all-year-round and all-day-long church": The Tek-Tung congregation
Founded in 1932 as a traditional rural church, the Tek-Tung congregation of the Presbyterian Church of Taiwan is anything but traditional today.
19. Октября 06
Still young at sixty: the Bossey Ecumenical Institute
Amidst the quiet vineyards overlooking Lake Geneva is a place that can seem an unlikely setting for the preparation of future church leaders. And yet the WCC's Ecumenical Institute at Bossey has been a unique international centre for Christian dialogue and learning for six decades, since its creation in 1946.
13. Июля 06
"We need to overcome both fear and despair": A seminar on justice and overcoming violence
The churches' understanding of, and response to, two critical contemporary issues - justice and violence, and to the complex relationship between them - is often limited. Justice can be narrowly understood in legal or traditional retributive terms; whereas violence can merely be seen as the outcome of personal sin. But as churches increasingly see their role as peacemakers in a conflict-torn world, where religion itself is misused and abused to...
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