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As a result of a consultation on 9-10 November in Washington, D.C., Pan African Women of Faith have released a Call to Action toward a vision of sustainable communities and an end to hunger and poverty.

As churches worldwide focus on the “Action Week for Food” in October, increasing numbers of people going hungry due to violent conflicts, failed harvests and rising food costs are compelling faith-based organizations to offer urgent intervention.

A publication entitled “When Food Becomes Immaterial: Confronting the Digital Age” is now available to help people explore the impact of technologies on what and how we eat, as well as on how food is produced.

The World Council of Churches invites a Churches’ Week of Action on Food, from 15-22 October 2018. An annual week-long global campaign initiated by the WCC-EAA, the Churches’ Week of Action on Food invites the global ecumenical movement and organisations, community-based organisations and faith-based organisations to act collectively for food-justice.

El CMI invita a participar en la Semana de Acción de las Iglesias por los Alimentos, del 15 al 22 de octubre de 2018.

The Global Day of Prayer to End Famine has found relevance in Africa, where communities bear the brunt of severe food shortages associated with the challenge. On 10 June, the WCC, All Africa Conference of Churches and World Evangelical Alliance called on churches to pray for millions of people at risk and those who face severe hunger.

The World Council of Churches, 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 promoting 10 June as the second annual Global Day of Prayer to End Famine to be observed in faith congregations worldwide.

El Consejo Mundial de Iglesias (CMI), la Alianza Evangélica Mundial y la Conferencia de Iglesias de Toda el África, junto con otras organizaciones humanitarias religiosas relacionadas y una coalición de redes y organizaciones relacionadas con las iglesias, están promoviendo el 10 de junio como segundo Día internacional de oración para acabar con el hambre, observado una vez al año por las congregaciones de todo el mundo.

El Consejo Mundial de Iglesias (CMI), la Alianza Evangélica Mundial y la Conferencia de Iglesias de Toda África, junto a una coalición de otros asociados, promueven que el 10 de junio se celebre por segunda vez el anual Día Mundial de Oración para Acabar con la Hambruna.

The World Council of Churches (WCC), World Evangelical Alliance and All Africa Conference of Churches, along with a coalition of other partners, are promoting 10 June as the second annual Global Day of Prayer to End Famine.

Seventy years ago, at its founding, the World Council of Churches (WCC) had already engaged in years of diaconial work, facilitating resettlement of hundreds of thousands of refugees after World War II. Now, two generations later, the WCC and sister ecumenical organizations have joined forces to re-envision and reignite diakonia for a new and radically different context.

Hace setenta años, en el momento de su fundación, el Consejo Mundial de Iglesias (CMI) ya había dedicado años al trabajo diaconal, facilitando el reasentamiento de cientos de miles de refugiados después de la Segunda Guerra Mundial. Ahora, dos generaciones después, el CMI y otras organizaciones ecuménicas hermanas se han reunido para volver a imaginar y reavivar la diaconía para un contexto nuevo y radicalmente diferente.

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.

This week world leaders are gathered in Davos under the very theme of “Creating a Shared Future in a Fractured World”. They do so at a time when we see poverty amongst plenty; hunger and thirst in the midst of abundance; shocking disparities in the quality of life between neighboring communities: real problems that the world has the potential and the possibilities to resolve.

“What do we have the right to manipulate in creation?” The question is at the heart of a Canadian Quaker’s commitment to the process of encouraging member churches of the World Council of Churches (WCC) to reflect on scientific experiments in modifying life forms known as “synthetic biology”.

Promoting responsible agricultural investments was the theme of a session organised by the WCC at the Civil Society Policy Forum of the World Bank Group-International Monetary Fund Annual Meetings held in Washington DC from 9-13 October. “There is no doubt we need to invest more in agriculture – it feeds us all and remains an important source of employment, especially for the world’s poor,” said Athena Peralta, WCC programme executive for economic and ecological justice.

As the Churches’ Week of Action on Food is to commence on 15 October, the World Council of Churches Ecumenical Advocacy Alliance now makes available material for seven prayer services, each intended to bring opportunities for prayer, reflection and action on food-justice around the world.

Ecumenical diakonia means complementing each other in what we do best: serving our communities, thus bringing visible church unity to the world, agreed participants at an Ecumenical Strategic Forum on Diakonia and Sustainable Development convened by the World Council of Churches (WCC) last week.

Diaconía ecuménica significa complementarnos unos a otros en lo que sabemos hacer mejor: servir a nuestras comunidades, haciendo de esta manera que la unidad de la iglesia sea visible para el mundo, convinieron los participantes en el Foro Estratégico Ecuménico sobre Diaconía y Desarrollo Sostenible convocado por el Consejo Mundial de Iglesias (CMI) la semana pasada.