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For the first time, the leaders of the Roman Catholic Church, Eastern Orthodox Church and Anglican Communion have jointly warned of the urgency of environmental sustainability, its impact on poverty, and the importance of global cooperation.

The Climate Sunday initiative is inviting local churches across Great Britain, Ireland and across the world to hold a climate-focused service on any Sunday before the United Nations climate change conference (COP26) begins in Glasgow on 31 October-12 November.

The World Council of Churches (WCC) is making available a new toolkit to enthuse congregations and churches through concrete examples of communities in action as well as good practices on renewable energy, climate protection, and just and sustainable consumption.

A group of bikers from the Bike for Peace visited the World Council of Churches on 30 August as part of a commemoration in the Place de Nations. 

An ecumenical prayer service on 1 September will mark the launch of the 2021 edition of Season of Creation, a worldwide initiative to promote prayer and action for our common home.

Greeks have watched their country burn, knowing that the flames also consume many other parts of the world, says the Church of Greece.

As reports of casualties and loss grow in Haiti in the wake of a 7.2-magnitude earthquake on 14 August, a tropical depression was threatening the same area two days later.

As wildfires continue to rage in Greece, the USA, Albania, and Russia, the World Council of Churches (WCC) reached out in solidarity to churches and communities that continue to be evacuated as well as those who have lost everything. 

As people in many regions suffer from the effects of record-breaking heat, devastating wildfires and extreme flooding, World Council of Churches (WCC) deputy general secretary Rev. Dr Odair Pedroso Mateus lifted up those suffering in prayer while, at the same time, urgently reacting to the latest scientific evidence that the global temperature is rising.

During an ecumenical service in Aachen Cathedral, on 28 August, Protestant and Roman Catholic churches in Germany as well as the churches affiliated to the Arbeitsgemeinschaft Christlicher Kirchen (Working Group of Christian Churches) will jointly remember and honor the victims of the floods that severely hit the region.

Angesichts der weiterhin in Flammen stehenden Wälder in Griechenland, den USA, Albanien und Russland hat der Ökumenische Rat der Kirchen (ÖRK) sich solidarisch mit den Kirchen und Gemeinschaften erklärt, aus denen die Menschen weiterhin evakuiert werden, und denjenigen die  Hand gereicht, die alles verloren haben. 

Während die Menschen in zahlreichen Regionen unter den Auswirkungen der alle Rekorde brechenden Hitzewellen, verheerenden Waldbrände und extremen Überschwemmungen leiden, hat der stellvertretende Generalsekretär des Ökumenischen Rates der Kirchen, Pastor Dr. Odair Pedroso Mateus, die Leidtragenden in seine Gebete eingeschlossen und fordert angesichts der jüngsten wissenschaftlichen Beweise für den Anstieg der globalen Temperaturen dringend Gegenmaßnahmen.