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Engaging climate justice: WCC Eco-School

Students who recently completed the WCC Eco School in Crete, Greece, took time to compile their reflections on how the experience helped them hone their messages and actions related to climate justice and a transition to green energy. This is first of a series of blog entries from Eco School students.

06 December 2023

Conor Russell

WCC general secretary Rev. Prof. Dr Jerry Pilay speaks at a side event of COP28 in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.

At COP28, WCC general secretary hopes for “less talk and more walk”

Attending his first climate talks as the World Council of Churches (WCC) general secretary, Rev. Prof. Dr Jerry Pillay took time via an interview to share the key elements of the WCC’s work at COP28—and his biggest hopes.

01 December 2023

Members of the WCC delegation on the first day of COP28.

As COP28 begins, faith communities stand ready to push for climate justice

With COP28 beginning on 30 November in Dubai, faith communities are ready to press for phasing out fossil fuels, push for climate justice, and present a united front.

30 November 2023

three women, floods, humanitarian aid unload, Africa

As floods rage in eastern Africa, church acts to save the people

Amidst deaths and displacement, church leaders in eastern Africa are re-stressing a warning against floods, while appealing for support for communities displaced by the climate change disaster.

22 November 2023

In Colombia, WCC is helping people realize dreams of a future in peace with justice

In September, the World Council of Churches (WCC), with the Colombian Episcopal Conference, United Nations Mission in Colombia, and Organization of American States, was appointed as a permanent accompanier for peace talks with the Estado Mayor Central FARC-EP in Colombia.

20 October 2023

Climate crisis: have we learned lessons from the past?

"2000", "3000", "10 000,” and "we cannot provide reliable estimates regarding the number of victims”—these were heard and read in the last days ever too often about the situation in Libya. This situation highlights the pressing issues of climate change and global injustices also regarding the youth. Again and again.

03 October 2023

Pawel Pustelnik

ACT Alliance general secretary: “equity is not negotiable”

As the 78th session of the UN General Assembly and the first-ever Climate Action Summit were held in New York City in September, ACT Alliance general secretary Rudelmar Bueno de Faria reflected on the importance of the World Council of Churches (WCC) and the ecumenical movement in creating a more sustainable and equitable world.

26 September 2023

GEM School: a North Star of economic justice

On a recent morning walk right before dawn, I could still see the stars. I saw the Polaris Star, or North Star, which is the brightest star in its constellation. It reminded me of the Underground Railroad and the network of people in North America who led Black people from southern bondage to northern freedom by following the North Star.

25 September 2023

Rev. Dr Larry D. Pickens

Witnessing the mighty river flow

What an incredible time to be living in! While skepticism and eco-anxiety tend to be the results we most see nowadays as we grow aware of the dimensions of the climate crisis and the loss of biodiversity and the socio-environmental crisis, for me I can't help but feel the daring and stubborn Christian hope as I grow increasingly committed to ecumenical care for creation.

22 September 2023

Suzana Moreira

Pontifical Catholic University of Paraná (Brazil) to become Blue University

The Pontifical Catholic University of Paraná in Brazil is looking at how to transform into a “Blue University.” Brother Rogério Renato Mateucci, rector, confirmed the university’s commitment to become part of the global Blue Community network.

28 August 2023

Doing local theology for ecological justice - a short story from Maluku

We call it Marafenfen, a small village in the South Aru Island. A small village inhabited by Indigenous people in Aru. We are also a small congregation in The Protestant Church in the Moluccas (GPM). In the midst of savannah we hunted, in the vastness of our land we cultivated. We live in harmony with the nature given by God.

24 August 2023

Rev. Agnes Souisa

First-ever Regional Ecumenical Theological Institute in Cairo was “a place where we were all connecting”

The World Council of Churches (WCC), in partnership with the Association of Theological Institutes and Faculties in the Middle East (ATIME) and the Middle East Council of Churches, held the first-ever Regional Ecumenical Theological Institute in Cairo under the theme “Respect for Creation is the Glorification of the Creator.”

18 August 2023

El clamor de la infancia en la Cumbre por un nuevo pacto mundial de financiación: “sustituyan el actual modelo económico colonial”

Los niños y niñas que se reunieron antes y durante la Cumbre por el nuevo pacto mundial de financiación, celebrada los días 22 y 23 de junio en París, transmitieron un mensaje claro al presidente Macron y a los dirigentes mundiales: el actual modelo económico colonial debe ser sustituido por otro que priorice la humanidad sobre los beneficios.

27 July 2023

Kinder fordern auf dem Gipfel für einen Neuen Globalen Finanzpakt vehement: „Ersetzt das bestehende koloniale Wirtschaftsmodell“

Kinder, die sich im Vorfeld und während des Gipfeltreffens für einen Neuen Globalen Finanzpakt am 22. und 23. Juni in Paris versammelt haben, überbrachten Präsident Macron und den Staats- und Regierungschefs aus aller Welt eine eindeutige Botschaft: Das bestehende koloniale Wirtschaftsmodell muss durch ein System ersetzt werden, in dem die Menschlichkeit wichtiger ist als der Profit.

27 July 2023

Le cri de ralliement des enfants lors du Sommet pour un nouveau pacte financier mondial: «remplacez le modèle économique colonial actuel»

Les enfants qui se sont réuni-e-s avant et pendant le Sommet pour un nouveau pacte financier mondial, organisé les 22 et 23 juin à Paris, ont adressé un message clair au président Macron et aux dirigeant-e-s du monde entier: le modèle économique colonial actuel doit être remplacé par un modèle qui fait passer l’humanité avant les profits.

27 July 2023

Faith communities respond to climate crisis in Indonesia

In crowded urban neighborhoods and drought-plagued rural villages, Indonesians from all religious backgrounds are putting their faith into action.

25 July 2023

Mister, why are you wearing robes?

The stories that imprint and accompany us the most are not necessarily the ones spoken most eloquently or from an orator’s elaborate formulations, but every so often those emanating out of the mouths of babes.

20 July 2023

V. Rev. Fr Hrant Tahanian

Prof. Dr. Fabien Revol bedankt sich beim ÖRK für die Zusammenarbeit im Bereich der Ökotheologie

Prof. Dr. Fabien Revol, Vorsitzender der Ökumenischen französischsprachigen Gesellschaft für die Theologie der Ökologie und Professor für Theologie an der Katholischen Universität Lyon, äußert sich nachstehend über die Präsentation des Buchs „Penser les relations écologiques en théologie à l'ère de l'Anthropocène" („Überlegungen zu ökologischen Beziehungen in der Theologie im Zeitalter des Anthropozäns“). Dieses Werk ist das Ergebnis eines 2021 durchgeführten Seminars des ÖRK und der Ökumenischen französischsprachigen Gesellschaft für die Theologie der Ökologie.

19 July 2023