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Not nearly enough is being done to save the lives of the 20 million people who face famine in Yemen, Somalia, South Sudan and Nigeria. Among them are 1.4 million children, who are at imminent risk of death unless aid reaches them immediately.

Estamos muy lejos de hacer lo suficiente para salvar las vidas de los 20 millones de personas que padecen hambruna en Yemen, Somalia, Sudán del Sur y Nigeria. Entre ellos están 1,4 millones de niños, que están expuestos al riesgo inminente de muerte a menos que reciban ayuda inmediatamente.

As David Beasley assumed his new role of executive director of the World Food Programme, the WCC offered its congratulations via a letter from general secretary Rev. Dr Olav Fykse Tveit.

Worsening global inequality is borne out as more people face famine now than any other time in modern history. Fr Nithiya Sagayam, national coordinator of the Association of Franciscan Families of India, is gravely concerned that the global response to extreme poverty is too low in almost every country while, he says, “corporations continue to grow richer and richer.”

The first ever WCC Eco-School on Water, Food and Climate Justice will be held 24 July to 3 August, hosted by the Church of Central Africa Presbyterian Blantyre Synod. Applications are now open with a deadline of 11 June (deadline extended).

As more people face famine today than any time in modern history, the WCC together with the All Africa Conference of Churches and a range of faith-based partners and networks invite a Global Day of Prayer to End Famine on 21 May 2017, in response to the hunger crisis.

As more people face famine today than any time in modern history, the WCC together with the All Africa Conference of Churches and a range of faith-based partners and networks invite a Global Day of Prayer to End Famine on 21 May 2017, in response to the hunger crisis.

En este momento en el que más personas hacen frente a la hambruna que en cualquier otro momento de la historia moderna, el CMI, junto con la Conferencia de Iglesias de Toda el África y una amplia gama de asociados y redes religiosas, convoca un Día internacional de oración para acabar con el hambre el 21 de mayo de 2017, en respuesta a la crisis del hambre.

“She is HIV positive too. No need to inherit her late husband’s title deed. She will die soon and leave it anyway.”

These man’s thoughts during his brother’s funeral were used by Jane Ng’ang’a, national coordinator, International Network of Religious Leaders Living with or Personally Affected by HIV (INERELA+) Kenya Chapter, to push the debate on property and inheritance rights linked to HIV. The discussion was held during the 61st Session of the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women (CSW), on 16 March, at the headquarters of UNAIDS, in New York.

Andrea Müller-Frank works as the Right to Food officer at the Policy Department of the German Bread for the World. Since December 2016 she has been co-chair of the World Council of Churches (WCC) Ecumenical Water Network (EWN), which fights for water justice worldwide.

Andrea Müller-Frank trabaja como responsable del programa de Derecho a la alimentación del departamento de políticas de Pan Para el Mundo, servicio protestante para el desarrollo (Alemania). Desde diciembre de 2016, es vicepresidenta de la Red Ecuménica del Agua (REDA) del Consejo Mundial de Iglesias, que lucha por la justicia del agua en todo el mundo.

“How can we work together, to share what it is in our hands, share the work that is before us? How can we empower one another, capacity-build our religious leaders and mobilize our congregations, to be more proactive in health-promoting issues?”

After learning about the link between HIV and sexual and gender-based violence, the Rev. Neila Ingram said what was on the minds of many women religious leaders: “So now I have work to go and do in my community and church.”

More than 120 religious and spiritual leaders, health workers and young people met on 7-8 February to focus on strengthening the fight against stigma in the HIV response in Kenya. They were joined by representatives from the Kenyan government, civil society organizations, networks of people living with HIV, and development partners for an event in Nairobi. The meeting, “Faith on the Fast Track: Eliminating Stigma and Discrimination Through Love and Dialogue” aimed to assess the impact of the Framework for Dialogue methodology which has been implemented in several countries since 2013.

Más de 120 líderes religiosos y espirituales, trabajadores sanitarios y jóvenes se reunieron los días 7 y 8 de febrero para centrarse en intensificar la lucha contra la estigmatización en el marco de la respuesta al VIH en Kenya. A ellos se unieron, en un evento que tuvo lugar en Nairobi, representantes del gobierno de Kenya, organizaciones de la sociedad civil, redes de personas que viven con el VIH, y asociados para el desarrollo. La reunión, “La fe en la vía rápida: eliminar el estigma y la discriminación a través del amor y el diálogo”, tenía por objeto evaluar el impacto de la metodología del Marco para el Diálogo, la cual se ha aplicado en varios países desde 2013. El evento fue organizado por la Red Internacional de Líderes Religiosos con VIH y Sida o personalmente afectados (INERELA+ Kenya) y el Consejo Mundial de Iglesias-Alianza Ecuménica de Acción Mundial (CMI-AEAM), con el apoyo del Programa de las Naciones Unidas sobre el VIH/SIDA (ONUSIDA), entre otros.

The World Council of Churches - Ecumenical Advocacy Alliance applauds the first licensing agreement related to tuberculosis, announced on 25 January by the Medicines Patent Pool and Johns Hopkins University. The agreement will facilitate the clinical development of sutezolid, a tuberculosis drug candidate. The antibiotic sutezolid, in combination with other drugs, could be used to more effectively treat drug-sensitive and drug-resistant tuberculosis.

El Consejo Mundial de Iglesias - Alianza Ecuménica de Acción Mundial celebra el primer acuerdo de concesión de licencia relacionado con la tuberculosis, anunciado el 25 de enero por el Banco de Patentes de Medicamentos y la Universidad Johns Hopkins. El acuerdo facilitará el desarrollo clínico de sutezolid, un candidato a fármaco para tratar la tuberculosis. El antibiótico sutezolid, en combinación con otros fármacos, podría ser utilizado para tratar más eficazmente la tuberculosis sensible a fármacos y la tuberculosis resistente a fármacos.

If the worsening global inequality highlighted recently is to be tackled, world leadership must act “now”, in tangible ways, says World Council of Churches (WCC) general secretary, Rev. Dr Olav Fykse Tveit, participating in the 2017 World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, Switzerland this week.

Si se pretende hacer frente a la creciente desigualdad mundial que se ha puesto de relieve recientemente, los líderes mundiales deben tomar medidas 'tangibles' inmediatas, dice el Secretario General del Consejo Mundial de Iglesias (CMI), el Rev. Dr. Olav Fykse Tveit. El líder del CMI participa esta semana en el Foro Económico Mundial de 2017, en Davo (Suiza), que tiene como tema: “Liderazgo responsable y receptivo”.

“I have been tested for HIV,” said Rev. Dr Olav Fykse Tveit, general secretary of the WCC, who received his test while traveling in Oslo, Norway, as a demonstration of his support for the WCC campaign “Leading by Example: Religious Leaders and HIV Testing,” launched at events observing World AIDS Day - 1 December - at the Ecumenical Centre in Geneva, Switzerland.