Como jefa de políticas en Christian Aid –un miembro fundamental de ACT Alianza– Alison Kelly tiene la vista puesta en el desarrollo sostenible y en lo que se considera la voz profética de la iglesia, para la que 2015 será un año de mucho trabajo.
As organizations worldwide intensify their work on issues of climate justice, and the clock is ticking for new climate commitments to take shape, members of the WCC Working Group on Climate Change have gathered for a four-day meeting to strategize for effective climate justice action and for strong participation of faith-based initiatives at COP21.
Mientras las organizaciones de todo el mundo intensifican su labor en los asuntos relacionados con la justicia climática y a medida que se acaba el tiempo para dar forma a los nuevos compromisos climáticos, los miembros del Grupo de trabajo sobre Cambio Climático del CMI se han reunido durante 4 días para concebir una estrategia de acción eficaz en pos de la justicia climática y lograr una presencia importante de las iniciativas religiosas en la Conferencia de las Naciones Unidas sobre el Cambio Climático en París (CP21).
Christians need a "spirituality of resistance" to face oppression, violence and experiences of defeat, the WCC general secretary said in an address at Germany’s biggest Protestant gathering.
Humanity cannot ignore its responsibility for creation, the WCC general secretary, the Rev. Dr Olav Fykse Tveit, has stated in Stuttgart during the German Protestant Kirchentag.
An independent commission on international tax reform initiated by a coalition of organizations including the WCC is calling for an overhaul of the global taxation system to alleviate poverty in developing nations including the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Una comisión internacional sobre la reforma tributaria internacional fundada por una coalición de organizaciones, de la que forma parte el Consejo Mundial de Iglesias (CMI), ha hecho un llamamiento para que se modifique el sistema tributario internacional para reducir la pobreza en los países en desarrollo, y especialmente en la República Democrática del Congo (RDC).
Rev. Dr Olav Fykse Tveit, general secretary of the WCC, and Dr Jim Yong Kim, president of the World Bank Group, discussed possible collaborative actions to end extreme poverty during a meeting in Washington, D.C., on 4 May.
El Rev. Dr. Olav Fykse Tveit, secretario general del CMI, y el Dr. Jim Yong Kim, residente del GBM, discutieron las posibles medidas para erradicar la pobreza extrema que podrían adoptarse de manera colaborativa en una reunión que tuvo lugar en Washington D.C. el pasado 4 de mayo.
“The increased interest of corporate organizations in the World Water Forum has a tendency to discourage civil society’s participation in addressing the water crisis,” said Dinesh Suna, coordinator of the Ecumenical Water Network of the WCC upon his return from the 7th World Water Forum, which concluded on 17 April in Daegu and Gyeongbuk, Republic of Korea.
Two new interactive websites have been launched by the WCC in order to promote strong engagement of churches with the vision of a “pilgrimage of justice and peace”.
El CMI lanza dos nuevos sitios web interactivos para promover un compromiso firme de las iglesias con el concepto de la peregrinación por la justicia y la paz.
A message of achieving human dignity, and the right to hope, in a world threatened by climate change was proclaimed on 28 April by WCC general secretary Rev. Dr Olav Fykse Tveit in a meeting convened on climate change by the Vatican.
As part of churches’ on-going struggles for climate justice, the campaign Act Now for Climate Justice was launched at the Ecumenical Centre in Geneva, Switzerland on Earth Day.
In a high level panel on Climate Change and Human Rights held at the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, the WCC general secretary Rev. Dr Olav Fykse Tveit said that despite all negative conditions “we have the right to hope” – not as a matter of passive waiting but as an active process towards justice and peace, in which human rights should play a key role.
Publications focusing on eco-theology, ethics and climate change were presented by their authors in an event hosted by Globethics.net – a Geneva-based global ethics network in collaboration with the WCC.
Dr Fulata Mbano-Moyo, the WCC programme executive for Women in Church and Society, called on the movement of Christian students to reclaim its radical transforming nature towards a “pilgrimage of gender justice”.
An ecumenical workshop held recently in Matanzas, Cuba strongly promoted life-affirming epistemologies that can help to envision and construct alternatives to inequitable and destructive socio-economic systems that prevail in today’s world.
