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After the deadliest earthquake to hit Morocco in decades took more than 1,000 lives, and the death toll continued to grow, World Council of Churches (WCC) general secretary Rev. Prof. Dr Jerry Pillay called for prayer and solidarity from the WCC global fellowship and from all people of good will across the world.

World Council of Churches acting general secretary Rev. Prof. Dr Ioan Sauca extended warmest congratulations to His Holiness Abune Kerlos I, Patriarch of Eritrea upon his election as the fifth Patriarch of the Eritrean Orthodox Tewahdo Church.

The World Council of Churches (WCC) Ecumenical Theological Education programme has, for the second time, contributed to ecumenical capacity development in Morocco. The WCC helped instruct a course on contextual theologies and African theologies at the Ecumenical Theological Institute Al Mowafaqa in Rabat.

El programa del Consejo Mundial de Iglesias (CMI) sobre Educación Teológica Ecuménica ha contribuido por segunda vez al desarrollo de capacidades ecuménicas en Marruecos. El CMI ha ayudado a impartir un curso sobre teologías contextuales y teologías africanas en el Instituto Ecuménico de Teología Al Mowafaqa, en Rabat.

The World Council of Churches (WCC) hosted a delegation from the Eritrean Orthodox Tewahdo Church on 12-13 November.

The WCC’s executive committee has welcomed recent reconciliations in Ethiopia and Eritrea. In a statement issued from its 2-8 November meeting in Uppsala, Sweden, the committee also invited further support from member churches for further efforts there.

El Comité Ejecutivo del CMI ha valorado positivamente las recientes reconciliaciones en Etiopía y Eritrea. En una declaración publicada desde su reunión del 2 al 8 de noviembre en Uppsala (Suecia), el comité invitó asimismo a las iglesias miembros a mostrar su apoyo a nuevos esfuerzos en la región.

A delegation from the WCC concluded a solidarity visit to the Eritrean Orthodox Tewahdo Church, one of Africa’s oldest Christian churches dating back to the year AD 329. It was the first such visit in more than 10 years and the WCC left with a pledge to pray and work for peace between Eritrea and its neighbor Ethiopia as they attempt to resolve a border dispute.

Una delegación del CMI concluyó una visita de solidaridad a la Iglesia Ortodoxa Tewahedo de Eritrea, una de las iglesias más antiguas de África, cuyo origen se remonta al año 329. Fue la primera vez en más de diez años que tuvo lugar una visita de esta índole y el CMI se fue del país con la promesa de orar y trabajar por la paz entre Eritrea y su vecino Etiopía en sus intentos por resolver la controversia fronteriza que los enfrenta.

Translate the hope provided by the Paris Agreement into real action to direct the world toward a more just and sustainable future, urged the World Council of Churches (WCC) on 17 November at the UN Climate Change Conference (COP22) in Marrakech, Morocco.

We have come a long way but have made little progress, stated Bartholomew I, Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, in his message to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), referring to 22 years of UN conventions as an unacceptably long period to respond to the environmental crisis.

Hemos recorrido un largo camino, pero hemos logrado pocos avances, según declaró Bartolomé I, patriarca ecuménico de Constantinopla, en su mensaje a la Convención Marco de las Naciones Unidas sobre el Cambio Climático (CMNUCC), calificando los veintidós años de convenciones de la ONU como un período inaceptablemente largo para responder a la crisis medioambiental.

A lively and youthful, but demanding, voice of the faith groups was heard clearly in the streets of Marrakech last Sunday, where a joint group from the ACT Alliance, the Lutheran World Federation and the World Council of Churches (WCC) marched among several thousand activists to demand environmental justice during the United Nations (UN) climate conference COP22.

ACT Alliance, the Lutheran World Federation and the World Council of Churches have put together a comprehensive kit to offer to the media. It highlights basic information about their some of their experts attending COP22 who are able to speak about climate change from the perspective of faith communities. We have speakers who represent a broad range of experience on climate change.

Joining efforts to explore how to move from dependency on fossil fuel to a sustainable future, faith representatives gathered at the Indonesian Pavilion at COP22 in Marrakech, Morocco on 8 November, for an event hosted by the Indonesian Ministry of Environment and Forestry.

Delegations from the ACT Alliance, Lutheran World Federation and WCC at the United Nations climate conference in Marrakech, Morocco are jointly demanding a more rapid transition to a low-carbon economy based on clean energy in order to stem rising global temperatures.

Green Cross International has launched a new edition of The Future We Want photo exhibition for 2016 at the United Nations in Geneva. It features a number of its new partner organizations from around the world, including the WCC.

The first of what will be 1,000 refugees from camps in Lebanon, Morocco and Ethiopia are arriving this month in Italy through a “Humanitarian Corridors” project organized by the Federation of Protestant Churches in Italy, the Sant’ Egidio religious community and the Italian government.