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He earned the title “Green Patriarch” as a religious leader addressing alarming environmental issues over at least two decades. In 2008, Time Magazine named His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew as one of 100 Most Influential People in the World, for “defining environmentalism as spiritual responsibility”.

Se ha ganado el apodo de “El Patriarca verde” por ser un líder religioso preocupado por los alarmantes problemas medioambientales desde hace al menos dos decenios. En 2008, la revista Time incluyó a Su Toda Santidad el Patriarca Ecuménico Bartolomé entre las cien personas más influyentes del mundo, por “definir el ecologismo como una responsabilidad espiritual”.

The WCC Ecumenical Water Network is inviting member churches and supporters to reflect on water during Lent. For many in the world, water is either taken for granted or in desperately short supply.

La Red Ecuménica del Agua del CMI invita a sus iglesias miembros y a sus colaboradores a reflexionar sobre el agua durante la Cuaresma. Para muchas personas del mundo el agua es algo que se da por sentado o algo extremadamente escaso.

A WCC member church in Kenya has consecrated its second woman bishop, Rev. Alice Muthoni Mutuma, on 31 January in Meru. Rev. Pauline Wanjiru Njiru, East Africa regional coordinator for the WCC Ecumenical HIV and AIDS Initiatives and Advocacy, attended the service and brought greetings from WCC.

Hundreds of people from many nations and confessions, among them pastors, priests, laity, nuns, bishops, archbishops and cardinals, joined in a service for God’s Creation at Notre Dame cathedral in Paris during the United Nations climate conference (COP 21) being held in the city.

In the midst of a mounting climate of fear of refugees and immigrants, the WCC is calling on Christians to be true to the Biblical imperative to “welcome the stranger”.

En el clima de creciente miedo a los refugiados y los inmigrantes, el CMI insta a los cristianos a ser fieles al imperativo bíblico de “acoger al extranjero”.

A special service organized by the WCC at the Ecumenical Centre chapel in Geneva, Switzerland, dedicated prayers to the United Nations post-2015 Sustainable Development Goals, meant to eliminate extreme poverty, fight inequality and injustice and tackle climate change and water scarcity by 2030.

Un servicio especial organizado por el Consejo Mundial de Iglesias (CMI) en la capilla del Centro Ecuménico, en Ginebra, (Suiza) dedicó oraciones a los Objetivos de Desarrollo Sostenible para después de 2015, que pretenden eliminar la pobreza extrema, combatir la desigualdad y la injusticia, y luchar contra el cambio climático y la escasez de agua para el año 2030.

Joined in prayer, Christian churches around the world will again observe the ecumenical “Time for Creation” (1 September to 4 October), this year bolstered by Pope Francis’s recent proclamation of 1 September as the “World Day of Prayer for the Care of Creation.”

Del 1 de septiembre al 4 de octubre, las iglesias de todo el mundo, unidas en la oración, volverán a observar el Tiempo para la Creación, una iniciativa ecuménica que este año se ve reforzada por la reciente proclamación por parte del papa Francisco del 1 de septiembre como Jornada Mundial de Oración por el Cuidado de la Creación.

Meeting from 17 to 24 June, the newly reconstituted Commission on Faith and Order of the WCC has begun to define its principal trajectories for ecumenical study and common activity from 2015 until the next WCC Assembly in 2020.

En una reunión que tuvo lugar del 17 al 24 de junio, la recientemente reconstituida Comisión de Fe y Constitución del CMI empezó a definir sus principales trayectorias en los ámbitos del estudio ecuménico y la actividad común, desde 2015 hasta la próxima Asamblea del CMI en 2020.

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.

People have the right of access to archives of public bodies, argued Trudy Huskamp Peterson, an archivist from the United States, in her recent talk organized by the WCC Archives in Geneva, Switzerland. She said public access to information is particularly relevant for archives documenting human rights violations.

Available now in four languages, a new online publication from the WCC invites parishes and congregations to explore the themes of Christian unity, justice and peace in advance of the upcoming WCC 10th Assembly.

En una nueva publicación en línea del CMI, editada en los cuatro idiomas de trabajo, se invita a parroquias y congregaciones a explorar los temas de unidad cristiana, justicia y paz, camino a la X Asamblea del CMI.

Drawing on the Indian churches' experience, churches around the world are celebrating the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity with a particular focus on justice as integral to the unity they seek.