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Dieciocho teólogas africanas y asiáticas emprendieron un viaje de reflexión y acción en torno al tema de “La orientación de las mujeres en el liderazgo ecuménico”, en una consulta que tuvo lugar del 20 al 22 de abril en Bangkok (Tailandia). La reunión fue organizada por el departamento de Educación Teológica Ecuménica del Consejo Mundial de Iglesias (CMI) y contó con el apoyo de la Fundación para la Educación Teológica de Asia Sudoriental.

Athena Peralta is dedicated to observing and encouraging people who are defending their livelihood and defending creation across the world. “There is so much injustice in this world that it is really something beautiful to learn about and be able to accompany, even in tiny ways, struggles of communities and churches,” she said.

On 17-23 November, the Executive Committee of the WCC met for the first time ever in China. The visit was hosted by the China Christian Council and the Three-Self Patriotic Movement. The Three-Self Patriotic Movement is a Protestant church in the People's Republic of China, as well as one of the largest Protestant bodies in the world.

Del 17 al 23 de noviembre, el Comité Ejecutivo del CMI se reunió por primera vez en China. La visita fue organizada por el Consejo Cristiano de China y el Movimiento Patriótico de las Tres Autonomías. El Movimiento Patriótico de las Tres Autonomías es una iglesia protestante de la República Popular China, además de uno de los organismos protestantes más grandes del mundo.

Roman Catholics and Lutherans, in committing to forging ahead as pilgrims together, are significantly contributing to the wider ecumenical movement, acknowledged the WCC executive committee last week at its meeting in China.

Al comprometerse a seguir avanzando juntos como peregrinos, los católicos romanos y los luteranos realizan una importante contribución al movimiento ecuménico más amplio, según reconoció el Comité Ejecutivo del CMI la semana pasada en su reunión en China.

The WCC Executive Committee met with the China Christian Council and the Three-Self Patriotic Movement from 17-23 November in Shanghai and Nanjing. The Three-Self Patriotic Movement is a Protestant church in the People's Republic of China, as well as one of the largest Protestant bodies in the world.

El Comité Ejecutivo del Consejo Mundial de Iglesias (CMI) se reunió con el Consejo Cristiano de China y el Movimiento Patriótico de las Tres Autonomías del 17 al 23 de noviembre en Shanghái y Nankín. El Movimiento Patriótico de las Tres Autonomías es una iglesia protestante de la República Popular China y una de las mayores organizaciones protestantes del mundo.

While meeting in Nanjing and Shanghai, China, from 17-23 November, the WCC Executive Committee issued a statement on climate justice that reiterates the urgent concerns of churches in relation to climate change, and calls on all states to fulfill the commitments of the Paris Agreement.

Mientras estaba reunido en Nankín y Shanghái (China) del 17 al 23 de noviembre, el Comité Ejecutivo del Consejo Mundial de Iglesias emitió una Declaración sobre la justicia climática que reitera las urgentes preocupaciones de las iglesias en relación con el cambio climático, e insta a todos los Estados a que cumplan los compromisos del Acuerdo de París.

Four short videos sharing challenges and examples of how churches and church leaders can make a profound difference in global efforts to end AIDS as a public health threat are now available for individual inspiration and group discussion.

“As a professor of economics and economic ethics with a theological background, and as dean of the GEM school, I can say that pluralistic economics – getting new prominence as an international student initiative – is an attempt to challenge neo-liberal monolithic economics. It is time for new thinking about economics”, stated Prof. Martin Büscher, first chair for economics and business ethics at the Institute for Diakonia and Management at the Protestant University of Wuppertal/Bethel, Germany, at the conclusion of the Governance, Economics and Management School held in Hong Kong on 22 August-2 September.

“Como profesor de Economía y Ética Económica con formación teológica, y como decano de la Escuela Ecuménica de Gobernanza, Economía y Gestión, puedo decir que las economías pluralistas –que están ganando protagonismo como iniciativa estudiantil internacional– son un intento de cuestionar las economías monolíticas neoliberales. Es hora de que haya una nueva forma de entender la economía”, declaró el Prof. Martin Büscher, primer titular de la cátedra de Economía y Ética Empresarial del Instituto de Diaconía y Gestión de la Universidad Protestante de Wuppertal/Bethel (Alemania), al concluir la Escuela Ecuménica de Gobernanza, Economía y Gestión que se celebró en Hong Kong del 22 de agosto al 2 de septiembre.

The globalization of the world economy has not been an even process, and in many ways governance for the protection of capital has overtaken governance for the protection of human well-being. A recent Ecumenical School on Governance, Economics and Management for an Economy of Life addressed this very asymmetry.

An economic system based on over-consumption and greed has become firmly rooted in today’s world and it is high time to change this paradigm by working for a new financial and economic architecture. The WCC together with the WCRC now convenes a first ever Ecumenical School on Governance, Economics and Management for an Economy of Life, in Hong Kong SAR.

El sistema económico basado en el consumismo y la avaricia se ha asentado firmemente en el mundo actual, por lo que ha llegado el momento de cambiar este paradigma trabajando por una nueva estructura financiera y económica. El CMI y la CMIR organizan estos días la primera Escuela Ecuménica de Gobernanza, Economía y Gestión para una economía de vida en Hong Kong (Región Administrativa Especial de China).

Thirty-five years into the response to HIV and AIDS, it remains a disease that not only thrives on, but exploits the lines of exclusion and inequality in society. In the Philippines, where there has been an alarming increase in people testing positive for HIV, the country’s National Council of Churches recognized that more than words were needed. While dialogue and debate were important, they needed to translate into action, given the ever-widening gap between the rich and the poor in Filipino society, and a faith-based and societal milieu still dominated by a sex-negative theology.

Kerlan Fanagel’s submission to the Human Rights Council (HRC), delivered on the council’s 10th anniversary, highlighted the plight of the Lumad in Mindanao, a group of people who have been displaced from their traditional lands in the southern Philippines.

Churches are engaged at the grassroots level throughout the world in the response to HIV and AIDS, but the struggle against the disease and those stigmatized for being HIV positive needs to continue, say church leaders.

The Central Committee of the World Council of Churches (WCC), at its meeting in Trondheim, Norway, 27 June 2016, has elected a new executive committee with 11 new members.