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El Consejo Mundial de Iglesias (CMI) y el programa de Iniciativas Ecuménicas y Acción Mundial sobre el VIH/SIDA, en asociación con el Pole Institute, han organizado una consulta en el marco de la iniciativa religiosa de ONUSIDA y el PEPFAR (Plan de Emergencia del Presidente de los Estados Unidos de América para Luchar contra el SIDA) en torno a los riesgos del VIH y las vulnerabilidades entre los migrantes, las personas desplazadas y los refugiados en Goma (República Democrática del Congo).

The World Council of churches (WCC) Ecumenical HIV and AIDS Initiatives and Advocacy program, in partnership with Pole Institute, hosted a UNAIDS-PEPFAR Faith Initiative consultation on HIV risks and vulnerabilities among migrants, displaced people and refugees in Goma, Democratic Republic of Congo.

The World Council of Churches (WCC) Ecumenical HIV and AIDS Initiatives and Advocacy programme, in partnership with the Christian Council of Nigeria (CCN), hosted a PEPFAR-UNAIDS consultation on HIV treatment adherence in Lagos, Nigeria, in April.

The World Council of Churches (WCC) Ecumenical HIV and AIDS Initiatives and Advocacy programme will hold workshops in April 2021 on HIV treatment adherence in Ivory Coast and Nigeria.

A three-day workshop facilitated in Jos, Nigeria by the World Council of Churches (WCC) in partnership with the Christian Council of Nigeria trained religious leaders, humanitarian workers and government officials on how to provide support for migrants who are vulnerable to HIV.

El Consejo Mundial de Iglesias (CMI) coorganizará un seminario titulado “Abordar los riesgos y la vulnerabilidad al VIH en migrantes, refugiados y desplazados internos”, del 1 al 5 de marzo en Jos (Nigeria).

The World Council of Churches (WCC) will co-host a workshop on “Addressing Risks and Vulnerability to HIV for Migrants, Refugees and Internally Displaced People” from 1-5 March in Jos, Nigeria.

The World Council of Churches (WCC) is mourning the passing away of Hendrew Lusey-Gekawaku on 13 October 2020. He was a registered nurse, public health practitioner and ecumenist who contributed enormously to ecumenical and interfaith HIV and AIDS responses.

Church and related organizations’ response to food crises globally may need to be strengthened following the findings of a new report which projects millions of people will be without food due climate change, conflict and insecurity.

The WCC-EHAIA programme organized a workshop on 27-29 November during which young people in Nigeria could highlight positive masculinity and femininity.

Dr Cecile De Sweemer, who served as staff of the Christian Medical Commission of the World Council of Churches (WCC) from 1982 to 1986, died on the 27 November in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). De Sweemer, a Belgian medical doctor with a doctorate in International Health from Johns Hopkins University, with extensive experience in Asia and Africa, was a dedicated and compassionate physician.

As Ebola breaks out in northern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), church and church agencies are moving to help counter the virus, which has left at least 25 people dead and more than 50 infected.

Interfaith consultation on positive masculinities and femininities with adolescents and young people in Abuja, Nigeria brought together more than fifty religious leaders, theologians, people living with HIV, adolescents and young people, teachers, health professionals, media persons and government officials for frank conversation.

Fifty adolescents, young people, teachers, theologians, health professionals, people living with HIV and religious leaders met in Abuja from 22-26 May to discuss positive masculinities and femininities in faith communities.

The WCC, World Evangelical Alliance and All Africa Conference of Churches, along with church-related humanitarian organizations and a coalition of church-related networks and organizations and partners, are planning 10 June 2018 as a second Global Day of Prayer to End Famine to be observed in faith congregations worldwide.

El Consejo Mundial de Iglesias, la Alianza Evangélica Mundial y la Conferencia de Iglesias de Toda el África, junto con organizaciones humanitarias vinculadas a la iglesia y una coalición de redes, organizaciones y asociados eclesiales, están planeando celebrar el 10 de junio de 2018 el segundo Día Internacional de Oración para Acabar con el Hambre, que será celebrado por congregaciones religiosas de todo el mundo.

Rev. Ikechukwu Anaga remembers when people didn’t know about “Thursdays in Black,” the global movement resisting attitudes and practices that permit rape and violence. But his community of Aba, in Abia State, Nigeria, was seeing firsthand an increase in gender-based violence and rape. When Anaga helped others in his community make a firm decision to do something about it, the zeal and passion for Thursdays in Black rose.

El Rev. Ikechukwu Anaga recuerda los tiempos en los que la gente no conocía la campaña "Jueves de negro", el movimiento mundial que lucha contra las actitudes y las prácticas que permiten la violación y la violencia, a pesar de que su comunidad de Aba, en el Estado de Abia, en Nigeria, estaba experimentando de primera mano un aumento de la violencia de género y las violaciones. Cuando el Rev. Anaga ayudó a otras personas de su comunidad a tomar la decisión clara de pasar a la acción, aumentaron el entusiasmo y el fervor por la campaña "Jueves de Negro".