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woman wearing face mask and gloves offers a portion of food

Let the food systems nourish people and the planet rather than feed the profits of the privileged

The food system is a complex web of activities involving production, processing, transport, and consumption. Key issues concerning the food system include how food production affects the natural environment, the impact of food on individual and population health, the governance and economics of food production, its sustainability, and the degree to which we waste food.

22 September 2021
Interview
Pastor Godson Lawson Kpavuvu, president of the Methodist Church of Togo, Photo: Methodist Church of Togo

Pastor Godson Lawson Kpavuvu: “God heals, but people must also be treated”

Pastor Godson Lawson Kpavuvu, president of the Methodist Church of Togo, is also chair of the International Reference Group of the World Council of Churches Ecumenical HIV and AIDS Initiatives and Advocacy programme (WCC-EHAIA). Involved with WCC-EHAIA from the beginning, he reflects below on what it’s like to be, as he describes, “one of the veterans of the struggle.”

02 September 2021
Publication
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Walk the Talk

A Toolkit to Accompany the "Roadmap for Congregations, Communities and Churches for an Economy of Life and Ecological Justice"

“Walk the Talk” builds on “Roadmap for Congregations, Communities and Churches for an Economy of Life and Ecological Justice,” a 5-step programme to change the way we deal with the economy and our ecological surroundings.

This toolkit aims to enthuse congregations and churches through concrete examples of communities in action as well as offer good practices and practical materials to “walk the talk” on economic and ecological justice, in each of the areas:

  • Living in Accordance with the Covenant with God and Creation
  • Renewable Energy and Climate Protection
  • Just and Sustainable Consumption
  • Economies of Life
31 August 2021
Interview
Humberto Shikiya

En Argentina, “Al servicio de un mundo herido” constituye un llamado esperanzador a colaborar

El Prof. Dr. h.c. Humberto Martín Shikiya, vicepresidente del Centro Regional Ecuménico de Asesoría y Servicio (CREAS) en Argentina, reflexiona sobre cómo el documento “Al servicio de un mundo herido en solidaridad interreligiosa: Un llamado cristiano a la reflexión y a la acción durante la COVID-19 y más allá” está siendo recibido como un llamado esperanzador a promover la colaboración ecuménica e interreligiosa. El Consejo Mundial de Iglesias (CMI) y el Pontificio Consejo para el Diálogo Interreligioso han publicado “Al servicio de un mundo herido” para alentar a las iglesias y las organizaciones cristianas a reflexionar sobre la importancia de la solidaridad interreligiosa en un mundo golpeado por la pandemia de COVID-19.

03 August 2021
Interview
Humberto Shikiya

In Argentina, “Serving a Wounded World” is a hopeful call to collaborate

Prof. Dr h.c. Humberto Martin Shikiya, vice president of the Regional Ecumenical Advisory and Service Center (CREAS) In Argentina, reflects on how “Serving a Wounded World in Interreligious Solidarity: A Christian Call to Reflection and Action During COVID-19 and Beyond” is being received as a hopeful call to collaborate ecumenically and interreligiously. The World Council of Churches (WCC) and the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue jointly published “Serving a Wounded World” to encourage churches and Christian organizations to reflect on the importance of interreligious solidarity in a world wounded by the COVID-19 pandemic.

02 August 2021
Document
Letter
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WCC/WCRC/CWM/LWF/WMC letter to G20 finance ministers (July 2021)

More than a year since the World Health Organisation declared it a pandemic, COVID-19 is still raging, particularly in the developing world where hundreds of thousands of lives have been lost and tens of millions more forced into destitution. The current situation continues to require strong social protection measures in all countries to ensure that the poor and vulnerable are able to weather the crisis’ unprecedented health and economic consequences.

05 July 2021
General Secretary
Publication
Health-Promoting Churches book cover

Iglesias Promotoras de la Salud

Reflexiones sobre salud y sanación para las iglesias en conmemoración de los días mundiales de la salud
Mwai Makoka

This booklet includes 15 reflections on international commemorative health days from Dr Mwai Makoka WCC Programme Executive for Health and Healing, who emphasises that he is not a theologian, but “ a lay Christian who is a medical professional and keen to promote health and healing from a Christian perspective.

30 June 2021