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An international online seminar, “Brazilian Tragedy: A Risk to Our Common Home?” brought religious, social and human rights leaders together with prominent experts on 4-6 May to discuss how the process of deconstructing democracy in Brazil in recent years has led the country to multiple crises.

The World Council of Churches (WCC) shared a congratulatory message with the Global Christian Forum on the forum’s upcoming third anniversary of its global gathering in Bogota, and the publication of the record of that event.

As human rights violations worsen in the Philippines, religious leaders there are urging global solidarity for their increasingly urgent quest for justice.

Le film «Silence radio», de Juliana Fanjul, a reçu le prix des Droits de l’Homme 2020, décerné par l’Association mondiale pour la communication chrétienne (WACC) et l’Association catholique mondiale pour la communication (SIGNIS).

Le long métrage documentaire dresse le portrait de Carmen Arestigui, journaliste et animatrice radio critique envers le gouvernement.  

El documental “Silencio radio”, dirigido por Juliana Fanjul, ha recibido el Premio de Derechos Humanos 2020 concedido por la Asociación Mundial para la Comunicación Cristiana (WACC) y SIGNIS, la Asociación Mundial Católica para la Comunicación.

El largometraje documental retrata la vida de la periodista y locutora de radio Carmen Aristegui, una voz crítica con el Gobierno mexicano. 

Der Film „Radio Silence“ (bedeutet „Funkstille“) von Juliana Fanjul wurde von der Weltvereinigung für Christliche Kommunikation und der katholischen Weltvereinigung für Kommunikation SIGNIS mit dem Menschenrechtspreis 2020 ausgezeichnet. 

Der lange Dokumentarfilm porträtiert die regierungskritische Journalistin und Radiomoderatorin Carmen Arestigui. 

The film “Radio Silence,” by Juliana Fanjul, has received the Human Rights Award 2020 from the World Association for Christian Communication and SIGNIS, the World Catholic Association for Communication.

The feature-length documentary portrays government-critical journalist and radio host Carmen Arestigui. 

 

As a report on human rights abuses in the Philippines was delivered to the UN by the global group Investigate PH, churches and human rights groups reiterated their concerns over propagation of a culture that allows the abuse to happen.

The new surge in COVID-19 related hospitalizations and deaths has drastically increased the need for pastoral care almost everywhere. Brazil and Great Britain are two hard-hit countries, where the pandemic has brought existential questions on the table.  

Damaris, a Nigerian woman, described her experience of 2020: “We’ve gone through hell.”

Damaris and her sisters were kidnapped in March 2020 and threatened with death as their kidnappers demanded money. Her father had to sell everything and beg on the streets to meet their demands. “We are just a common people in Nigeria,” she said. “We don’t know what we did.”

A morte brutal de João Alberto Silveira Freitas, negro , de 40 anos de idade, pela ação de dois agentes de segurança brancos do lado de fora de um supermercado em Porto Alegre, Brasil, no dia 19 de novembro, véspera do Dia da Consciência Negra, despertou revolta em todo país. As igrejas membros do Conselho Mundial de Igrejas condenaram a morte de João Alberto e expressaram profunda preocupação com a insjutiça racial sistêmica no Brasil.