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The WCC has welcomed the historic announcement made by the Colombian government and the FARC revolutionary force agreeing to a framework for ending 50 years of internal conflict in the nation and addressing issues of justice and reparations to the victims.

El CMI ha acogido con satisfacción el histórico anuncio hecho por el gobierno colombiano y las FARC sobre el acuerdo marco alcanzado para poner fin a 50 años de conflicto interno en el país y abordar asuntos en materia de justicia y reparación a las víctimas.

“I have just learned with shock and sorrow about the considerable and tragic loss of life among those participating in the Hajj due to the accident that has taken place today in Mina, near Mecca,” said Rev. Dr Olav Fykse Tveit, general secretary of the WCC.

A special service organized by the WCC at the Ecumenical Centre chapel in Geneva, Switzerland, dedicated prayers to the United Nations post-2015 Sustainable Development Goals, meant to eliminate extreme poverty, fight inequality and injustice and tackle climate change and water scarcity by 2030.

Un servicio especial organizado por el Consejo Mundial de Iglesias (CMI) en la capilla del Centro Ecuménico, en Ginebra, (Suiza) dedicó oraciones a los Objetivos de Desarrollo Sostenible para después de 2015, que pretenden eliminar la pobreza extrema, combatir la desigualdad y la injusticia, y luchar contra el cambio climático y la escasez de agua para el año 2030.

Hopes and aspirations for peace were expressed on 20 September at the Peace Palace in the Netherlands, site of a “Walk of Peace” held on the second day of the International Week of Peace. The event was organized by the Council of Churches in the Netherlands and PAX, a Dutch peace organization, in cooperation with local churches in The Hague.

"Get up and go!" is the motto of an ecumenical pilgrimage for climate justice that will invite pilgrims to walk from Flensburg to Paris, where the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP 21) will start at the end of November.

In view of the current refugee crisis, European churches are being encouraged to deepen their efforts in receiving, supporting and protecting refugees who arrive in the region. This call was made in a letter issued jointly by the WCC, the Conference of European Churches and the Churches’ Commission for Migrants in Europe.

En vista de la actual crisis de los refugiados, se está alentando a las iglesias europeas a que intensifiquen sus labores de acogida, apoyo y protección de los refugiados que están llegando a la región. Ese llamamiento se hizo a través de una carta emitida conjuntamente por el CMI, la Conferencia de Iglesias Europeas y la Comisión de las Iglesias para los Migrantes en Europa.

Reduction in and prevention of statelessness, and the protection of stateless people in the Middle East provided the focus of a workshop organized by the WCC and the Middle East Council of Churches in Beirut, Lebanon.

Leaders from historically African-American Methodist churches, many of them representing member churches of the WCC, joined last week in Washington, D.C. to publicly call for the United States to confront racism and demand legal solutions to bring about racial equality.

In the wake of recent crisis with the refugees in Europe, it is “absolutely and critically necessary that all European states take their proper responsibility in terms of reception and support for people seeking refuge, safety and a better future for themselves and their families. This cannot be left only to the states where they enter first,” says the WCC general secretary.

Interview with the WCC general secretary, who is currently in Brasilia, about violence committed in the name of religion, human rights and climate justice in Brazil.

A worship service on 30 August at the Pentecostal Cathedral of Curico, Chile, featured participation from the WCC general secretary Rev. Dr Olav Fykse Tveit and the WCC president for Latin America and the Caribbean Rev. Gloria Ulloa. Christian unity and ecumenical aspirations remained in focus at the service attended by more than 1,300 people.

The vision of building a better world for children where they can be protected from violence and sexual abuse in families, schools and communities was strongly affirmed by representatives of both religious and secular organizations in a forum held in Geneva, Switzerland.

En un foro celebrado el 27 de agosto en Ginebra, Suiza, representantes de organizaciones religiosas y laicas manifestaron su firme adhesión a la visión de crear un mundo mejor para los niños, donde estén a salvo de la violencia y el abuso sexual en sus familias, escuelas y comunidades.

“The effects of climate change today and tomorrow will affect basic human rights,” said Rev. Dr Olav Fykse Tveit, general secretary of the WCC, during an audience with the Chilean President Michelle Bachelet, at the Palacio de la Moneda in Santiago on 29 August.

“Los efectos del cambio climático hoy y mañana afectarán a los derechos humanos básicos”, dijo el Secretario General del CMI durante una audiencia con la presidenta chilena.

Participants in the 2015 Agape International Political Camp have explored the concept of security and issued a call for a “pedagogy of and for peace” founded on justice.

“Join the pilgrimage of justice and peace! Stand up for the creation that is threatened, for justice and peace, so that people may gain hope so that life will flourish. The most severe threat to basic human rights here in the next decades will be the dramatic effects of climate change. This is what eco-justice means.” This was a message the WCC general secretary conveyed at a public event of the Argentina Chancellery.