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“It is imperative for churches to invest in the youth of Africa so they can take leadership in addressing these issues in the timeframe of the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals”, said Prof. Dr Isabel Phiri, World Council of Churches (WCC) deputy general secretary for Diakonia and Public Witness as she spoke to young people attending the first-ever WCC Eco-School in Blantyre, Malawi.

The International Reference Group (IRG) of the Ecumenical Water Network (EWN), the water justice initiative of the World Council of Churches (WCC) held its annual meeting in Malawi as the UN revealed that 2.1 billion people lack access to safe drinking water.

“Bridging Science and Policy” is the theme of the XVI World Water Congress this week in Cancun, Mexico, and water experts are bringing that to bear in their decisions regarding the field of water. The World Council of Churches is represented at the event through its Ecumenical Water Network.

The first ever WCC Eco-School on Water, Food and Climate Justice will be held 24 July to 3 August, hosted by the Church of Central Africa Presbyterian Blantyre Synod. Applications are now open with a deadline of 11 June (deadline extended).

The World Council of Churches Ecumenical Water Network (WCC-EWN) hosted the Brazilian Semiarid Articulation (ASA) on 25 April for a dialogue on human rights and water justice in Brazil. Representatives of the EWN and the ASA discussed human rights within the framework of the right to water, and they also focused on alternatives for sustainable living offered by ASA.

Do you have a photo that tells a story about water? As part of the Lenten campaign “Seven Weeks for Water”, the World Council of Churches (WCC) Ecumenical Water Network (EWN) is promoting its second annual photo contest on Instagram encouraging people to share images of water in their daily lives.

Wie viele Menschen in den ländlichen Gebieten Kenias musste auch Catherine Mwangi früher weite Strecken zurücklegen, um Wasser für den Haushalt aus einem Fluss zu holen. Sie sagt, sie sei in „bescheidenen Verhältnissen“ aufgewachsen.

Like many people brought up in rural Kenya, Catherine Mwangi had a long walk to fetch water for home use from a nearby river in what she calls her “humble upbringing”. For the past seven years, Mwangi has been the executive director ADSMKE (the Anglican Development Services of Mount Kenya East) and water access is an important issue in her work.

As World Water Day is observed across the world on 22 March, Prof. Jesse N.K. Mugambi reflects: “The great challenge is how to reduce the cost of treating wastewater, especially in the equatorial and tropical zones.”

Andrea Müller-Frank arbeitet als Referentin für das Recht auf Nahrung in der Abteilung Politik von Brot für die Welt. Seit Dezember 2016 ist sie Co-Vorsitzende des Ökumenischen Wassernetzwerks (ÖWN) des Ökumenischen Rates der Kirchen (ÖRK), das sich weltweit für Wassergerechtigkeit einsetzt.

Andrea Müller-Frank works as the Right to Food officer at the Policy Department of the German Bread for the World. Since December 2016 she has been co-chair of the World Council of Churches (WCC) Ecumenical Water Network (EWN), which fights for water justice worldwide.

Einige der Dürrestaaten Afrikas schauen vielleicht mit Neid auf Sierra Leone und auf seine Regenzeit, die jedes Jahr sechs Monate dauert und dem Land teilweise sintflutartige Niederschläge bringt.

Some of Africa’s dry nations might at first glance with envy at Sierra Leone which has a rainy season lasting six months every year in which many of the downpours are torrential. Rev. Arnold Temple, a Sierra Leonean Methodist minister and co-chair of the WCC Ecumenical Water Network, describes challenges relating to water in the region.

With a prayer service on Ash Wednesday in Sealite Mihret Orthodox cathedral in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, the WCC's Ecumenical Water Network began its annual Lenten campaign “Seven Weeks for Water”. This year during Lent it will raise awareness of water justice issues in Africa.

Der ÖRK hat für die Woche vom 20. bis 27. Februar eine Tagung der Referenzgruppe des Pilgerwegs der Gerechtigkeit und des Friedens in Nigeria einberufen. Ziel der Tagung war eine Situationsbestimmung, wie sich der Pilgerweg entwickelt, und die Sammlung von Vorschlägen für verschiedene Initiativen und Aktivitäten mit speziellem Fokus auf Afrika in diesem Jahr.

With the aim of monitoring how the Pilgrimage of Justice and Peace is unfolding and to develop suggestions for its various initiatives and activities, with a special focus on the Africa region in 2017, the World Council of Churches (WCC) convened a meeting of the reference group of the pilgrimage in Nigeria from 20-27 February.

The 54th meeting of the WCC Commission of the Churches on International Affairs (CCIA) began today in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, marking its yearly regional focus on Africa. During the meeting CCIA members are discussing the commission’s previous work and its outcomes focusing on Middle East, as well as setting strategic directions for activities until 2021.

Der ÖRK hat die Umsetzung seiner Selbstverpflichtungen zum verantwortungsvollen Umgang mit Wasser im Rahmen einer Veranstaltung im Ökumenischen Zentrum am 15. Februar gefeiert. Der ÖRK ist seit Oktober 2016 Mitglied der Blue Community. Ein Höhepunkt dieses besonderen Ereignisses war der Besuch von Dr. Maude Barlow vom kanadischen Blue Planet Project, die dem ÖRK ein „Blue Community-Zertifikat" überreichte und auf die Probleme aufmerksam machte, die durch die gedankenlose Verwendung von Einwegplastikflaschen und ihre schädlichen Auswirkungen auf das Ökosystem unseres Planeten entstehen.

The WCC celebrated implementation of its responsible water commitments in an event on 15 February in the Ecumenical Centre. The WCC became a Blue Community In October 2016. The special occasion was marked by the visit of Dr Maude Barlow from the Blue Planet Project, Canada, who awarded a “blue community certificate” to the WCC and raised awareness of the problems created by indiscriminate use of disposable plastic bottles and their negative impact on our planet’s ecosystem.

Der ÖRK organisierte gemeinsam mit dem Genfer Interreligiösen Forum zu Klimawandel, Umwelt und Menschenrechten, Franciscans International und Brahma Kumaris World Spiritual University eine öffentliche Podiumsdiskussion zum Thema Klimawandel und Menschenrechte aus der Perspektive Ethik, Spiritualität und Gerechtigkeit am 13. Februar am Sitz der Vereinten Nationen in Genf.