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WCC joins global faith efforts for women's health amid climate crisis

In a session held at COP 28's Faith Pavilion, the World Council of Churches (WCC) and the Green Hope Foundation collaborated to shed light on the urgent need for interfaith feminist actions addressing climate change's disproportionate impact on women and girls.

05 December 2023

Message

Déclaration des enfants au Sommet pour un nouveau pacte de financement mondial

Les enfants lancent un cri de ralliement au Sommet pour un nouveau pacte mondial de financement : "Remplacer le modèle économique colonial existant".

16 August 2023

Ecumenical movement

Message

Children's Declaration to the New Global Financing Pact Summit

Children deliver rallying cry to Summit for a New Global Financing Pact: “replace the existing colonial economic model”.

16 August 2023

Ecumenical movement

Lecture - Speech

Keynote of Rev. Dr Kenneth Mtata at the International Conference for Reconciliation in Colombia

Keynote address of Rev. Dr Kenneth Mtata, WCC programme director for Public Witness and Diakonia at the "International Conference for Reconciliation in Colombia", Bogota, Colombia, 9 August 2023

09 August 2023

WCC Programmes

Statement: public statement

DECLARATION SUR L’AGGRAVATION DE LA CRISE ALIMENTAIRE MONDIALE

Déclaration sur l'aggravation de la crise alimentaire mondiale par le comité exécutif du Conseil œcuménique des Églises, réuni par vidéoconférence du 22 au 26 mai 2023.

26 May 2023

Executive committee

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Overcoming obesity—more than changing one's behaviour; it is a matter of ensuring systemic justice!

We mark 4 March as World Obesity Day. Overweight and obesity are defined as abnormal or excessive fat accumulation that presents a health risk. Obesity has more than tripled since 1975, and more than 1 billion people are obese in the world today.

04 March 2023

Masimba Kuchera

Women suffering from fistula need urgent help

Rose Mantey qualified as a state registered nurse in Ghana in 1996, and completed training in midwifery in 2002. In 2005 she started working in a maternal and child health community clinic, attached to the Mercy Women’s Catholic Hospital in Mankessin, Ghana.

09 December 2022

Mwai Makoka

Voices on the ground: peace, social justice, and ethics—the way to the end of hunger

Halfway to the sustainable development goals, the latest UN indicators show a record increase in hunger. The World Food Programme and Food and Agriculture Organization report that 828 million people are hungry, an increase of 46 million from the previous year and an increase of 150 million people since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. The number of people worldwide who cannot afford a healthy diet has increased by 112 million, reaching nearly 3.1 billion by 2020, the report said. Millions of people are at risk of falling into a vicious cycle of malnutrition, ill health, and poverty, exacerbating inequalities already visible to current and future generations.

20 September 2022

Sylvain Nedelec

A global ecumenical delegation in the cradle of Christianity

From the gateway to the eastern Mediterranean and its pearl, Beirut, an ecumenical delegation came to the Middle East in order to visit spiritual leaders who historically constituted the pillars of ecumenical work.

15 July 2022

Dr Michel Abs

WCC delegation listens to concerns and hopes of Middle East churches on path to assembly

In a bridge-building visit to member churches in Lebanon, a World Council of Churches (WCC) delegation visited Beirut on 7 July, meeting with church leaders as well as the Middle East Council of Churches to hear and carry a message for the upcoming WCC 11th Assembly, to be held in Karlsruhe, Germany from 31 August-8 September.

07 July 2022

Three men with hoes digging in the field.

On World Food Safety Day, clerics and farmers relate to food toxins

On World Food Safety Day, clerics and farmers in Kenya reflected about aflatoxin—a group of poisons found in maize and peanuts—that continue to cause deaths and related diseases in the East African country.

07 June 2022

Il faut agir maintenant face à la crise alimentaire, exhorte l'envoyé spécial de l'OMS dans le cadre d’une réunion animée par le COE

Le monde est confronté à une crise alimentaire mondiale sans précédent exacerbée par la guerre en Ukraine mais l'humanité peut et doit prendre des mesures correctives en matière de justice économique et climatique, a-t-on entendu lors d'une réunion animée par le Conseil œcuménique des Églises.

31 May 2022

Act on food crisis now, urges WHO special envoy at WCC-led meeting

The world faces a global crisis on food exacerbated and brought to the fore by the war in Ukraine, but humanity can and must take remedial steps in economic and climate justice, a World Council of Churches-led meeting has heard.

27 May 2022

As Horn of Africa drought bites, church leader highlights children’s malnutrition

In drought-stricken regions in eastern Africa, churches and church congregations continue to pray for rain, as the weather conditions leave millions of people without food, water and pasture for their animals.

20 May 2022

Women carry water in the cans on their heads

Churches reach out to communities suffering drought in the horn of Africa

As the war in Ukraine triggers an unexpected rise in food and commodity prices in African markets, church leaders are reaching out to communities struggling with food insecurity and shortages.

11 May 2022

On World Health Day, Christian Conference of Asia calls for “healthy, sustainable, and equitable society”

On World Health Day, observed 7 April, the Christian Conference of Asia published a statement under the theme “Our Planet, Our Health” that calls for equating our health and wellbeing with our environment.

07 April 2022

Des représentants d’Amérique latine font part de leurs blessures et s'engagent à marcher ensemble vers la 11e Assemblée du COE

Une rencontre régionale en ligne, le 10 février, avec des représentants d'Amérique latine participant à la réunion du comité central du Conseil œcuménique des Églises (COE) a permis de partager des préoccupations communes et a mis en lumière un désir commun de marcher ensemble vers la 11e Assemblée du COE, qui aura lieu plus tard dans l’année.

24 February 2022

Lateinamerikanische Delegierte sprechen über ihre Wunden und wollen sich gemeinsam auf den Weg zur 11. ÖRK-Vollversammlung begeben

Ein regionales Online-Meeting am 10. Februar mit Vertreterinnen und Vertretern aus Lateinamerika, die an der Tagung des Zentralausschusses des Ökumenischen Rates der Kirchen (ÖRK) teilgenommen haben, bot die Gelegenheit, sich über gemeinsame Belange auszutauschen, und zeigte den gemeinsamen Wunsch, sich zusammen auf den Weg zur 11. Vollversammlung zu begeben.

24 February 2022