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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.

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.

The World Council of Churches (WCC), a non-state actor with the World Health Organization (WHO), participated in the 71st session of the World Health Assembly (WHA). This year marks the 40th anniversary of the Alma-Ata Declaration on Primary Health Care (PHC), of which WCC was one of the creators.

El Consejo Mundial de Iglesias (CMI), un agente no estatal de la Organización Mundial de la Salud (OMS), participó en la 71ª sesión de la Asamblea Mundial de la Salud. Este año se celebra el 40º aniversario de la Declaración de Alma-Ata sobre atención primaria de salud de la que el CMI fue uno de sus creadores.

The WCC-EAA is inviting a “letter writing action”, encouraging religious leaders and faith communities to speak out for action against Tuberculosis (TB).

At the Conference on World Mission and Evangelism, held in Tanzania in March, WCC communications interviewed Rene van Dongen, United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) Deputy Representative. Van Dongen spoke about Churches’ Commitments to Children, which is now supported by more than 200 churches and partners worldwide. The initiative was created when the WCC and UNICEF facilitated a broad consultative process around the question ‘How can churches use their influence to improve children’s lives?’

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.

Dr Ulysses Burley III is serving as a WCC delegate to the 62nd Commission on the Status of Women at the United Nations in New York City (CSW62), being held 12-23 March. Dr Burley, from Chicago, is a member of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. He currently serves on the WCC-Ecumenical Advocacy Alliance HIV Access to Treatment Working Group.

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.

The questions are numerous and visitors diverse as the World Council of Churches (WCC) hosts a Faith Networking Zone at the 19th International Conference on AIDS and STIs (sexually transmitted infections) in Africa, ICASA 2017, on 4-8 December.

On World AIDS Day 2017, the WCC-EAA brought together representatives of faith-based organizations as well as public sector and inter-governmental organizations at the Ecumenical Centre in Geneva on 1 December.

Para conmemorar el Día Mundial de la Lucha contra el Sida 2017, la Alianza Ecuménica de Acción Mundial del Consejo Mundial de Iglesias (CMI-AEAM) reunió a representantes de organizaciones religiosas, así como del sector público y de organizaciones intergubernamentales, en el Centro Ecuménico, en Ginebra, el pasado 1 de diciembre.

On 17 November, leaders from national and international organizations met in Vatican City to address key concerns in securing early testing and treatment for children and adolescents living with HIV.

“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”.

Rev. Rahab Wanjiru Kariuki, an Anglican priest living with HIV in Kenya, strongly believes there’s a reason for an uptick in HIV infections among young people: “It is because we have kept silent.” Kariuki refuses to be silent and refuses to remain passive. These are mantras not only for the way she lives but for the ways in which she ministers and cares for others.

A lay Anglican woman in Uganda is helping to build an HIV competent community and church, in a country where the epidemic is still a big challenge. Josephine Kasaato is president of the Mothers’ Union in the Namirembe Diocese in the capital of Uganda, Kampala. She is using her position to create awareness and educate the community about HIV and AIDS.