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The World Council of Churches, World Evangelical Alliance and All Africa Conference of Churches, along with church-related humanitarian organizations and a coalition of church-related networks and organizations and partners, are promoting 10 June as the second annual Global Day of Prayer to End Famine to be observed in faith congregations worldwide.

Le Conseil œcuménique des Églises (COE), l'Alliance évangélique mondiale et la Conférence des Églises de toute l'Afrique, aux côtés d'organisations humanitaires confessionnelles et d'une coalition de partenaires, d'organisations et de réseaux d'Églises, assurent la promotion de la deuxième Journée mondiale de prière pour mettre fin à la famine. Tous appellent à ce que cette journée soit observée au sein des communautés de foi à travers le monde, et ce, le 10 juin prochain.

As Ebola breaks out in northern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), church and church agencies are moving to help counter the virus, which has left at least 25 people dead and more than 50 infected.

Le Conseil œcuménique des Églises (COE), l’Alliance évangélique mondiale et la Conférence des Églises de toute l’Afrique, ainsi qu’une coalition de partenaires, assurent la promotion de la deuxième Journée mondiale de prière pour mettre fin à la famine le 10 juin prochain.

The World Council of Churches (WCC), World Evangelical Alliance and All Africa Conference of Churches, along with a coalition of other partners, are promoting 10 June as the second annual Global Day of Prayer to End Famine.

The WCC-EAA is inviting a “letter writing action”, encouraging religious leaders and faith communities to speak out for action against Tuberculosis (TB).

Seventy years ago, at its founding, the World Council of Churches (WCC) had already engaged in years of diaconial work, facilitating resettlement of hundreds of thousands of refugees after World War II. Now, two generations later, the WCC and sister ecumenical organizations have joined forces to re-envision and reignite diakonia for a new and radically different context.

À sa fondation il y a 70 ans, le Conseil œcuménique des Églises (COE) s’était déjà engagé dans des activités diaconales pendant plusieurs années, facilitant la réinstallation de centaines de milliers de personnes réfugiées au lendemain de la Deuxième Guerre mondiale.

The WCC, World Evangelical Alliance and All Africa Conference of Churches, along with church-related humanitarian organizations and a coalition of church-related networks and organizations and partners, are planning 10 June 2018 as a second Global Day of Prayer to End Famine to be observed in faith congregations worldwide.

Le Conseil œcuménique des Églises, l’Alliance évangélique mondiale et la Conférence des Églises de toute l’Afrique, ainsi que des organisations humanitaires chrétiennes, des réseaux d’Églises, des organisations ecclésiales et leurs partenaires encouragent les congrégations religieuses du monde entier à célébrer, le 10 juin prochain, la deuxième «Journée mondiale de prière pour mettre fin à la famine».

Dr Ulysses Burley III is serving as a WCC delegate to the 62nd Commission on the Status of Women at the United Nations in New York City (CSW62), being held 12-23 March. Dr Burley, from Chicago, is a member of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. He currently serves on the WCC-Ecumenical Advocacy Alliance HIV Access to Treatment Working Group.

This week world leaders are gathered in Davos under the very theme of “Creating a Shared Future in a Fractured World”. They do so at a time when we see poverty amongst plenty; hunger and thirst in the midst of abundance; shocking disparities in the quality of life between neighboring communities: real problems that the world has the potential and the possibilities to resolve.

The questions are numerous and visitors diverse as the World Council of Churches (WCC) hosts a Faith Networking Zone at the 19th International Conference on AIDS and STIs (sexually transmitted infections) in Africa, ICASA 2017, on 4-8 December.

“What do we have the right to manipulate in creation?” The question is at the heart of a Canadian Quaker’s commitment to the process of encouraging member churches of the World Council of Churches (WCC) to reflect on scientific experiments in modifying life forms known as “synthetic biology”.

Promoting responsible agricultural investments was the theme of a session organised by the WCC at the Civil Society Policy Forum of the World Bank Group-International Monetary Fund Annual Meetings held in Washington DC from 9-13 October. “There is no doubt we need to invest more in agriculture – it feeds us all and remains an important source of employment, especially for the world’s poor,” said Athena Peralta, WCC programme executive for economic and ecological justice.

As the Churches’ Week of Action on Food is to commence on 15 October, the World Council of Churches Ecumenical Advocacy Alliance now makes available material for seven prayer services, each intended to bring opportunities for prayer, reflection and action on food-justice around the world.

Ecumenical diakonia means complementing each other in what we do best: serving our communities, thus bringing visible church unity to the world, agreed participants at an Ecumenical Strategic Forum on Diakonia and Sustainable Development convened by the World Council of Churches (WCC) last week.

La diaconie œcuménique signifie nous compléter dans ce que nous faisons de mieux: servir nos communautés, apportant ainsi au monde une unité visible de l'Église, ont convenu les participants au Forum stratégique œcuménique sur la diaconie et le développement durable organisé par le Conseil œcuménique des Églises (COE) la semaine dernière.

The World Council of Churches - Ecumenical Advocacy Alliance endorses a newly expanded collaboration on HIV between the Medicine Patent Pool and Gilead. On 4 October, the MPP announced a licence with Gilead Sciences for bictegravir, a new integrase inhibitor part of a once-daily, single-tablet HIV regimen currently filed for regulatory approval at the United States Food and Drug Administration and the European Union.

Observed on 15-22 October 2017, the World Council of Churches Ecumenical Advocacy Alliance invites churches around the world again to a Churches’ Week of Action on Food, an opportunity to pray, reflect and take action together, for food-justice across the globe.