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World Council of Churches general secretary Rev. Prof. Dr Jerry Pillay sent a pastoral letter to Haitian brothers and sisters whose lives are lived in a land with hatred, violence, and suffering. “Although we might be physically distant, we are close to you in heart, in the spiritual sense,” wrote Pillay. “We all are children of God. We belong to one family, as Jesus Christ himself said.”

The World Council of Churches (WCC) and the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV and AIDS (UNAIDS) publication highlights the lessons learnt from the project Strategic Engagement of Civil Society Networks and Faith Actors in the HIV Response in India, Dominican Republic, Indonesia, and Jamaica.

The World Council of Churches (WCC) is beginning a project with local partners in four countries—India, Dominican Republic, Indonesia, and Jamaica—to bring back HIV and AIDS response to the national agendas, this time with a focus on sustainability.

World Council of Churches acting general secretary Rev. Prof. Dr Ioan Sauca expressed great concern in the wake of a 7.3-magnitude earthquake that struck the northern part of Luzon Island in the Philippines on 27 July.

In einem Schreiben an US-Präsident Joe Biden vom 15. Oktober haben Führungspersonen des Ökumenischen Rates der Kirchen, des ACT-Bündnisses, des Kubanischen Kirchenrats und anderer religiöser Gruppen ein Ende des seit knapp 60 Jahren bestehenden Embargos gegen das kubanische Volk gefordert, dessen humanitäre Lage katastrophal ist.

In a 15 October letter to US president Joe Biden, leaders from the World Council of Churches, ACT Alliance, Council of Churches in Cuba, and other faith-based groups urged an end to nearly 60 years of embargo against the Cuban people, who are facing an appalling humanitarian situation.

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.

Im Regenwald des Amazonas, einem heilige Ort für 34 Millionen Menschen, stöhnt Gottes Schöpfung, denn das Amazonasgebiet leidet unter wachsender Ungleichheit, zunehmender Aneignung von Land, vermehrter Okkupationswirtschaft und einer Lockerung der Umweltschutzgesetze, während seine Beschützer zunehmend kriminalisiert und ermordet und, angestiftet von der Agrarindustrie, immer mehr Brände gelegt werden - und das alles wird durch Missionierung noch verschlimmert.

God’s creation groans in the Amazon forest, a sacred space for 34 million people suffering from the growth of inequality, land invasion, extractivism, relaxation of environmental laws, criminalization and murder of its defenders, and arson orchestrated by agribusiness—all of it made worse by proselytizing.

In a letter sent to Caribbean churches, World Council of Churches (WCC) general secretary Rev. Dr Olav Fykse Tveit expressed gratitude that the disaster did not cause severe damage or fatalities.

Nachdem Bischof Theophilus Rolle, der auf den Bahamas lebt, dem Ökumenischen Rat der Kirchen (ÖRK) eine erste Einschätzung der Lage nach Hurrikan Dorian übermittelt hatte, hat der ÖRK zu Gebeten und Solidarität der weltweiten Gemeinschaft mit den Menschen aufgerufen, die von dem Sturm hart getroffen wurden.

As Bishop Theophilus Rolle, living in the Bahamas, shared initial assessments with the World Council of Churches (WCC) in the wake of Hurricane Dorian, the WCC in turn called for prayers and solidarity across the world for the people suffering greatly during the storm.

Pastorin Kelli Jolly ist es wie viele Menschen auf den Bahamas gewohnt, Jahr für Jahr mit dem Wissen zu leben, dass mehrere Wirbelstürme über sie hinwegziehen könnten. Jolly ist reisende Älteste im Kirchenkreis Nassau im Distrikt Bahamas/Turks- & Caicosinseln der Methodistischen Kirche in der Karibik und Lateinamerika.

Rev. Kelli Jolly, like many Bahamians, is used to living through the possibility of multiple hurricanes, year after year. She serves as itinerant presbyter with the Methodist Church in the Caribbean and the Americas, Bahamas/Turks and Caicos Islands District, Nassau Circuit of Churches.

Pastor Kirkland Russel, anglikanischer Priester aus Grand Bahama, sprach am 2. September mit dem Ökumenischen Rat der Kirchen (ÖRK), während der Hurrikan Dorian über der Insel praktisch stehen blieb, eine drohende Sturmflut mit sich brachte und zahlreiche Menschen in Schrecken versetzte.

Rev. Kirkland Russel, an Anglican priest from Grand Bahama, spoke with the World Council of Churches (WCC) on 2 September as slow-moving Hurricane Dorian lingered over the island, bring-ing a threatening storm surge and trauma to many people.

Indigenous peoples are not only on the frontline of climate change impacts, they are also uniquely equipped with expertise to help defend ecology. Two groups - the Ecumenical Indigenous Peoples’ Networks Reference Group and the Working Group on Climate Change of the World Council of Churches (WCC) - underscored this idea as they met to discuss the world’s climate emergency. Both are composed of theologians, indigenous persons, scientists and experts on ecology and economy, representing churches from around the world.