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As part of the Barbados Gospelfest, Caribbean co-coordinator of the World Council of Churches Ecumenical Disability Advocates Network Rev. Dr Gordon Cowans offered a public lecture on 22 May, exploring the theme “Touching Lives of Persons With Disability: Freed to Simply Be.”

A webinar on 25 May, “Exploring the nexus between racism, xenophobia and the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA), and African Union (AU) free movement protocol,” marked Africa Day by focusing on the potential of faith communities, especially Christians, in bridging the gaps that continue to frustrate the free movement of people and goods around the continent.

Churches in the southern hemisphere will observe the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity on 21-28 May, the week between Ascension and Pentecost. This year’s theme is “Do good; seek justice (Isaiah 1:17).”

The upcoming Barbados Gospelfest, set for 21-28 May, will express churches’ affirmation and celebration of persons with disabilities in musical and other creative ways.

Speakers and participants will explore the question: What does it mean to be the church within the contemporary context of world Christianity?

The World Council of Churches (WCC) Commission on Faith and Order is convening for the last time with its current composition before a new commission takes its place.

The World Council of Churches (WCC) Commission on Faith and Order will convene for the last time with its current composition before the new commission takes its place.

Un seminario web que tendrá lugar el 5 de mayo recordará a las víctimas del esclavismo y de la trata transatlántica de esclavos, centrándose esta vez en Europa.

Un seminario en línea analizará el 25 de abril los obstáculos, las oportunidades y las estrategias para combatir el racismo, la xenofobia y la discriminación racial en la iglesia y en el mundo.

Al intervenir con ocasión del lanzamiento del documento “The Future of Mission Cooperation” (“El futuro de la cooperación para la misión”), el último volumen de una trilogía del Consejo Mundial de Iglesias (CMI) que reflexiona sobre el centenario del Consejo Misionero Internacional, el secretario general del CMI, Rev. Prof. Dr. Jerry Pillay, lo describió como “el resultado de un largo y fructífero proceso”.

A webinar on 25 April will explore obstacles, opportunities, and strategies to combat racism, xenophobia and racial discrimination in the church and in the world.

A 5 May webinar will remember the victims of slavery and the transatlantic slave trade, this time with a focus on Europe.

Opening the launch of the text “Future of Mission Cooperation”—the last in a World Council of Churches (WCC) trilogy reflecting on the centenary of the International Missionary Council—WCC general secretary Rev. Prof. Dr Jerry Pillay described the volume as “the outcome of a rich and long process.”

During an Africa-Europe Ecumenical Forum on Migration, held 15-19 March In Hamburg, Germany, nearly 60 people gathered to discuss, among many other issues, the negative effects of “irregular” migration, caused in part by the growth of inequality within and between countries.