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When does the pursuit of economical wellbeing turn into greed? This is one of the questions to be discussed at a 5-9 November ecumenical consultation in Dar es Salaam. Joint church strategies and actions for addressing the interlinked problems of poverty, excessive wealth, and ecological degradation in Africa are intended results.

¿Cuándo la carrera hacia el bienestar económico se convierte en codicia? Es ésta una de las cuestiones que se examinarán en una consulta ecuménica que se celebrará en Dar es Salaam del 5 al 9 de noviembre. Su intención es conseguir como resultado unas estrategias y acciones conjuntas de las iglesias para afrontar los problemas relacionados entre sí de la pobreza, la riqueza excesiva y la degradación ecológica en África.

A second round of dialogue between World Council of Churches (WCC) members and Pentecostals was inaugurated last week in Baar, Switzerland. A group of seventeen Protestant, Orthodox and Pentecostal Christians met to re-launch the work begun by the first Joint Consultative Group between the WCC and Pentecostals from 2000 to 2005.

Una segunda ronda de diálogo entre representantes de iglesias miembros del Consejo Mundial de Iglesias (CMI) y pentecostales fue inaugurada la pasada semana en Baar, Suiza. Un grupo de diecisiete cristianos protestantes, ortodoxos y pentecostales se reunieron para reactivar la labor iniciada por el primer Grupo Consultivo Mixto CMI-Pentecostales de 2000 a 2005.

"This letter is most welcome," said World Council of Churches (WCC) general secretary Rev. Dr Samuel Kobia, especially at a time when "all of humanity is looking to religious leaders for guidance as to how to respond to the situation of violence in the world". Kobia was commenting on the letter "A Common Word between Us and You," saying that it "gives a lot of hope".

Exigiendo alternativas al libre comercio impuesto, las iglesias y organizaciones relacionadas con las iglesias de todo el mundo, junto con otros grupos religiosos e interlocutores comunitarios, organizan la Semana de Acción sobre el Comercio del 14 al 21 de octubre.

Students of theology and young theologians are being invited by the World Council of Churches (WCC) to bring new perspectives and contributions to the debate about the future of the ecumenical movement by participating in an essay competition to mark the Council's 60th anniversary.

Calling for alternatives to enforced free trade, churches and church-related organizations world-wide, along with other religious groups and community partners, are gearing up for the Trade Week of Action, 14-21 October.

Por Jerry Hames (*)

El Consejo Mundial de Iglesias (CMI) invita a estudiantes de teología y jóvenes teólogos a aportar perspectivas y contribuciones nuevas al debate sobre el futuro del movimiento ecuménico participando en un concurso de ensayos con motivo del 60º aniversario del Consejo.

By Jerry Hames (*)

On the occasion of Dr Joseph Mar Irenaeus' enthronement as Malankara Mar Thoma Metropolitan on 2 October 2007, WCC general secretary Rev. Dr Samuel Kobia extended the Council's "hearty congratulations, prayers and best wishes".

Con ocasión de la consagración del Dr. Joseph Mar Irenaeus como Metropolita de la Iglesia Siria Mar Thoma de Malabar, India, el 2 de octubre de 2008, el secretario general del Consejo Mundial de Iglesias, pastor Dr. Samuel Kobia, le transmitió "la cordial felicitación, las oraciones y los mejores deseos del Consejo".

The Kyoto Protocol is "an important step forward towards a just and sustainable global climate policy regime" and as such needs to be fully implemented, however "much more radical reductions [of greenhouse gas emissions] are urgently needed," the World Council of Churches (WCC) executive committee stated at its 25-28 September meeting in Etchmiadzin, Armenia.

There is an "international responsibility to protect people at risk in the Darfur region of Sudan and in neighbouring Chad," affirmed the World Council of Churches (WCC) executive committee, calling upon the Council's member churches to bring that responsibility "to the attention of their governments".

The members of the World Council of Churches (WCC) have been asked to engage "their own governments over the need to break the international silence on the humanitarian crisis in Iraq and provide greater assistance to displaced and refugee Iraqis".

The US and its allies must "settle the dispute over Iran's nuclear programme through negotiations and not through the use of military force," stated the World Council of Churches (WCC) executive committee at its 25-28 September meeting in Etchmiadzin, Armenia.

Se ha pedido a los miembros del Consejo Mundial de Iglesias (CMI) que "comprometan a sus propios gobiernos en relación con la necesidad de romper el silencio internacional sobre la crisis humanitaria en Irak y de proveer mayor asistencia a los iraquíes desplazados y refugiados".

Measures implemented by the Philippine government in regard to extrajudicial killings in the country will not prevent these, affirmed the World Council of Churches (WCC) at the UN Human Rights Council's 6th session held in Geneva from 10-28 September 2007.

In an effort to promote dialogue as an alternative to a possible military confrontation between Iran and the United States, the World Council of Churches (WCC) co-sponsored a discussion between Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and nearly 140 people of faith from across the United States.