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Latest issue of International Review of Mission addresses health as well as wider issues

The new issue of International Review of Mission includes a variety of articles, ranging from post-colonialism to public theology, and from mission models to Pope Francis’s apostolic exhortation. Two of the articles are specifically concerned with healing, which is a pertinent theme at this current period of the coronavirus. These two articles clearly indicate that the biblical concept of health consists as it does of the welfare, health, and prosperity of the individual person as well as of communities as a whole. Individuals are always part of the communities they belong to.

Dr. Stephen Brown: ¿Cómo podemos aferrarnos al espíritu de la verdad en medio del remolino de información digital?

El Dr. Stephen Brown es el editor de The Ecumenical Review. El número más reciente de esta publicación, “El espíritu de la verdad en la era digital”, reflexiona sobre cómo nuestras percepciones de la realidad se están volviendo dependientes de la forma en que se organizan y regulan los ecosistemas de comunicación e información a medida que se desarrolla la tecnología.

Dr Beate Jakob: "We are one body."

The World Council of Churches (WCC) has newly released an online publication, "Health and Hope: The Church in Mission and Unity," a collection of previously published articles that resonate with the worldwide struggle amid the COVID-19 pandemic. In conjunction with this resource, WCC communication is sharing personal perspectives from faith-based health experts across the world. Dr Beate Jakob is a consultant for health and healing with the German Institute for Medical Mission.

“Somos un solo cuerpo”, dice la Dra. Beate Jakob

El Consejo Mundial de Iglesias (CMI) ha publicado recientemente en línea “Health and Hope: The Church in Mission and Unity” (Salud y esperanza: La iglesia en la misión y la unidad), una colección de artículos previamente publicados que tienen resonancia en la lucha mundial contra la pandemia de COVID-19. Junto con este recurso, el Departamento de Comunicación del CMI comparte las perspectivas personales de expertos en salud del ámbito religioso del mundo entero. La Dra. Beate Jakob es consultora del Instituto Alemán para la Misión Médica en materia de salud y sanación.

Ecumenical Review focuses on “Global Manifestations of Racism Today”

The latest issue of The Ecumenical Review, the quarterly journal of the World Council of Churches (WCC), focuses on “Global Manifestations of Racism Today,” with a set of articles that originated at a theological symposium organized in Japan in 2019 as part of the WCC’s Pilgrimage of Justice and Peace.

WCC condemns attack at Hanukkah celebration in New York City

The World Council of Churches (WCC) condemned an attack on a Hanukkah celebration at a rabbi´s home north of New York City, on 28 December, stabbing and wounding five people. Several state and local officials have described the location of stabbing as a synagogue.

Latest Issue of International Review of Mission focuses on “Emerging Missional Movements”

The latest issue of the World Council of Churches’ journal International Review of Mission deals with the relationship between church and mission by focusing on the missional movements that have emerged in many places during the past two decades, and that have been described by terms such as “fresh expressions of church,” “emerging churches,” or, in short, “Fresh X.”

Ecumenical Review focuses on Pan-African Women of Faith and Inclusive Global Theological Education

The latest issue of The Ecumenical Review, the quarterly journal of the World Council of Churches (WCC), focuses on the Pan-African Women’s Ecumenical Empowerment Network (PAWEEN), a project of the WCC’s programme on Ecumenical Theological Education (ETE).

Formally established as a network in 2015, PAWEEN aims to celebrate, commemorate, and build upon the legacy of Pan‐African women in the ecumenical movement.

Mission and people with disabilities

How much is the mission of the church related to people with disabilities? These days we talk a lot about inclusive societies and churches. But, have we arrived there? Are our societies and churches taking seriously the problems and challenges that people with disabilities face on a daily basis? People with disabilities find themselves quite often at the margins of the societies and even of the churches.