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At the the 57th session of the World Council of Churches (WCC) Commission of Churches on International Affairs in Brisbane, Australia, Bishop Philip Huggins thoughtfully summed up why this year is a crucial one for the planet.

Impacts of the climate change and the lingering health and environmental effects of nuclear testing on the countries in the Pacific region are among the issues to be discussed at the meeting of the WCC’s Commission of Churches on International Affairs (CCIA), convened from 19 to 21 February in Brisbane, Australia.

Las repercusiones del cambio climático y los prolongados efectos en la salud y el medio ambiente de los ensayos nucleares en los países de la región del Pacífico figuran entre los temas principales de la reunión de la Comisión de las Iglesias para Asuntos Internacionales (CIAI), que tiene lugar en Brisbane (Australia) del 19 al 21 de febrero.

The Protestant Church of South India’s sustainable environmental education initiative has been nominated for the 2019 UNESCO-Japan Prize.

With the announcement on 6 February of a Global Prayer Campaign for peace on the Korean Peninsula, World Council of Churches (WCC) leaders and partners looked back at 30-plus years of history and forward to events planned for 2020.

Con ocasión de la presentación de la campaña mundial de oración por la paz en la península de Corea el 6 de febrero, dirigentes y asociados del Consejo Mundial de Iglesias (CMI) consideraron los más de treinta años de historia y los eventos planificados para 2020.

Erich Weingartner, who previously helped lead the World Council of Churches (WCC) Commission of the Churches on International Affairs, has also represented CanKor, a Canadian interactive resource on North Korea. From the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada, he was also founding head of the Food Aid Liaison Unit of the World Food Programme.

Erich Weingartner, quien anteriormente ha participado en la dirección de la Comisión de las Iglesias para Asuntos Internacionales del Consejo Mundial de Iglesias (CMI), también ha representado a CanKor, un recurso interactivo canadiense sobre Corea del Norte. Desde la Iglesia Evangélica Luterana en Canadá, fue asimismo fundador y director de la Dependencia de Enlace de la Ayuda Alimentaria del Programa Mundial de Alimentos.

A war erupted on the Korean Peninsula 70 years ago that divided Korea and that has yet to end. So, the world’s churches have launched a “70 Days of Prayers - Global Prayer Campaign” for peace.

Hace setenta años, en la península de Corea estalló una guerra que dividió Corea y que todavía no ha concluido. Por ello, las iglesias del mundo han puesto en marcha la campaña mundial de oración por la paz “Setenta días de oraciones”.

A global prayer campaign for peace on the Korean Peninsula will occur from 1 March – 15 August, lasting 70 days and inviting hundreds of thousands of people worldwide to say: “We Pray, Peace Now, End the War!”

On day 847 of a 1,000-day pilgrimage for peace on the Korean Peninsula, the Bargn Nuri Community stopped at the WCC for a Life and Peace Conference.

As of January 2020, the WCC has relaunched its Sarah Chakko Scholarship Fund. The fund was first established in 1998, at the end of the Ecumenical Decade of Solidarity with Women, aiming to promote the education of women for leadership competencies for the ecumenical movement.

In a pastoral letter to Australian churches, World Council of Churches general secretary Rev. Dr Olav Fykse Tveit acknowledged that the catastrophic fires in many parts of Australia have darkened the horizon in a time when much of the world is celebrating.

En una carta pastoral dirigida a las iglesias australianas, el secretario general del Consejo Mundial de Iglesias, el Rev. Dr. Olav Fykse Tveit, reconoció que los incendios catastróficos que están arrasando muchas zonas de Australia han oscurecido el horizonte en un momento en que gran parte del mundo está de celebración.

Even as international tension mounts, religious leaders from North and South Korea renewed their exchange during a December meeting that kept the push for peace alive. Members of the Steering Committee of the Ecumenical Forum for Peace, Reunification and Cooperation on the Korean Peninsula – including delegations from the Korean Christian Federation (KCF) of North Korea and of the National Council of Churches in South Korea (NCCK) – met in Shenyang, China, on 2-3 December 2019.

Churches across the Korean Peninsula will mark the year 2020 as a “jubilee year,” and, as they commemorate 70 years since the Korean War, religious leaders are pledging to redouble their ongoing efforts for stronger peace and reunification.

Las iglesias de toda la península de Corea celebrarán el año 2020 como un “año de jubileo” y, al conmemorar los setenta años desde la Guerra de Corea, los líderes religiosos se comprometen a seguir desplegando esfuerzos para alcanzar la paz y la reunificación.

On 18 November a delegation led by World Council of Churches (WCC) general secretary Rev. Dr Olav Fykse Tveit met with the prime minister of the Republic of Korea, Lee Nak-yeon.

Offering a keynote speech during the 68th General Assembly of the National Council of Churches in Korea in Seoul, World Council of Churches general secretary Rev. Dr Olav Fykse Tveit reflected on the assembly theme, “Walk the Path of the New Commandment,” based on John’s account of Jesus’ last supper with his disciples.