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Anglican bishops across the world have signed a petition calling for an immediate halt to oil drilling in the Kavango Basin, Namibia, by Canadian Company ReConAfrica.

The Thursdays in Black campaign for a world free from rape and violence has been intensified in Namibia, bringing awareness of the heightened risk of violence against women and children during the COVID-19 lockdown.

In 2018 we celebrate the 70th anniversary of the World Council of Churches. In order to create a lively firsthand account of the ecumenical fellowship and of our shared journey, member churches have contributed stories of people, events, achievements and even failures, all of which have deepened our collective search for Christian unity. This story was written by Olle Eriksson, a Namibian who worked for 35 years (1968 – 2003) with the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Namibia, Finnish Evangelical Lutheran Mission and Lutheran World Federation.

Las minorías blancas gobernaron tres países del sur de África durante muchos años, incluso después de que la mayoría de las antiguas colonias de África lograran la independencia. Veinte o treinta años de guerras amargas y sangrientas precedieron a la independencia de Zimbabwe (antes Rodesia) en 1980 y de Namibia (antes África Sudoccidental) en 1990, y al gobierno de la mayoría en Sudáfrica en 1994.

As the Lutheran World Federation (LWF) gathered for its 12th Assembly in Windhoek, Namibia from 10-16 May, World Council of Churches (WCC) general secretary Rev. Dr Olav Fykse Tveit presented greetings on behalf of the World Council of Churches, a worldwide fellowship of 348 member churches which represents more than half a billion Christians around the world.

Con ocasión de la 12.ª Asamblea de la Federación Luterana Mundial (FLM), que tendrá lugar en Windhoek (Namibia) del 10 al 16 de mayo, el Secretario General del Consejo Mundial de Iglesias (CMI), el Rev. Dr. Olav Fykse Tveit, ha enviado un mensaje a la Federación en nombre de la comunidad del CMI.

Almost 800 participants, including 324 delegates, are gathering in Windhoek from 10-16 May for the Twelfth Assembly of the Lutheran World Federation (LWF), the highest LWF decision-making body that meets every six years. World Council of Churches general secretary Rev. Dr Olav Fykse Tveit will address the plenary on 12 May.

“Statelessness renders people’s vulnerability to abuse and to denial of their rights invisible to national authorities. In this sense the right to a nationality is a threshold issue for access to protection of all other human rights - almost a 'right to have rights'”, said Peter Prove, director of the World Council of Churches (WCC) Commission of the Churches on International Affairs (CCIA), following a regional training workshop on birth registration and gender discriminatory nationality laws in Africa, organized by the WCC in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 11–13 May.

“La apatridia hace que la vulnerabilidad de las personas a los abusos y la denegación de sus derechos sea invisible para las autoridades nacionales. En este sentido, el derecho a una nacionalidad es primordial para el acceso a la protección de todos los otros derechos humanos, se trata casi de un ‘derecho a tener derechos’”, dijo Peter Prove, director de la Comisión de las Iglesias sobre Asuntos Internacionales del CMI, tras un taller regional de capacitación sobre el registro de nacimientos y las leyes de nacionalidad discriminatorias por motivos de género en África, organizado por el CMI en Addis Abeba (Etiopía) del 11 al 13 de mayo.

A long time academic and professor of missiology at the Ecumenical Institute of Bossey, Dr Paul J. Isaak has been appointed as director of elections by President Hifikepunye Pohamba in Namibia. Isaak commenced his new position at the Electoral Commission of Namibia in September.