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Les éducateurs chrétiens et les autres responsables d’Églises au Togo tournent avec plaisir les pages d’une nouvelle ressource destinée aux enfants, un programme d’éducation intitulé «Parce que Dieu m’aime – Affirmer ma valeur en Christ», publié par le Conseil œcuménique des Églises (COE).

Christian educators and other church leaders in Togo are eagerly turning the pages of a new resource for children, a curriculum entitled “Because God Loves Me—Affirming My Value in Christ,” published by the World Council of Churches (WCC).

Damaris, a Nigerian woman, described her experience of 2020: “We’ve gone through hell.”

Damaris and her sisters were kidnapped in March 2020 and threatened with death as their kidnappers demanded money. Her father had to sell everything and beg on the streets to meet their demands. “We are just a common people in Nigeria,” she said. “We don’t know what we did.”

The World Council of Churches (WCC) Ecumenical HIV and AIDS Initiatives and Advocacy programme sponsored an intergenerational workshop on HIV, masculinities, femininities and sexual reproductive health education for 35 adolescents, young people, theologians, and religious leaders from 28-30 October at the Village du Benin, University of Lomé, Togo.

Pastors, supervisors, teachers, counselors, chaplains and youth from primary schools, universities, theological institutions, and churches met from 23-24 May at the Theresia Residency in Togo to reflect and deepen their knowledge on masculinities, femininities and HIV.

In a highly unusual action, the leaders of Jerusalem’s churches closed the doors of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre on Sunday. The united protest was in response to moves by Jerusalem authorities to begin collecting tens of millions of dollars in taxes from churches, as well as proposed legislation to confiscate church-owned land.

Dans un acte extrêmement inhabituel, les responsables des Églises de Jérusalem ont fermé les portes de l’église du Saint-Sépulcre dimanche dernier. Cette protestation est une réaction aux nouvelles mesures prises par les autorités de Jérusalem pour collecter des dizaines de millions de dollars sous forme de taxes aux Églises, ainsi qu'à un projet de loi visant à confisquer les terres appartenant aux Églises.

Church must be a safe place where sinners are welcome to learn and change, and where the wounded can share their pains and find refuge, says Maria Dous, a medical student from Egypt. In July, she participated in a seminar organized by the Pan African Women’s Ecumenical Empowerment Network at the WCC's Ecumenical Institute Bossey.

L'Église doit être un lieu sûr où les pécheurs sont encouragés à apprendre et à changer, mais aussi où les personnes meurtries peuvent partager leurs souffrances et trouver refuge, a déclaré Maria Dous, une étudiante égyptienne en médecine. En juillet dernier, elle a participé à un séminaire organisé par le Réseau œcuménique d'autonomisation de la femme panafricaine (ROAFP).

Twenty-five people took part in a workshop in Lome, Togo on 9-11 July jointly organized by the World Council of Churches Ecumenical HIV and AIDS Initiatives and Advocacy (WCC-EHAIA) and the Church of Sweden.

In the West African countries of Togo and Benin, adolescents and young people are confronted by various obstacles in accessing sexual and reproductive health services. Organized by the World Council of Churches Ecumenical HIV and AIDS Initiatives and Advocacy West Africa regional office in Lomé, Togo, a workshop for 25 adolescents and young people from Benin and Togo helped participants make safe, responsible choices that prevent HIV infection.

Sexual and reproductive health services must be not just "youth-friendly" but also “male- and female-friendly" and "youth participatory" so that young men and women gain access to the information and services they need and want, agreed adolescents who attended a workshop in Lomé, Togo on 24-25 March.

Les services de santé sexuelle et reproductive ne doivent pas seulement être «accueillants pour les jeunes» mais aussi «accueillants pour les garçons et les filles» et «ouverts à la participation» de la jeunesse, afin que les jeunes hommes et femmes aient accès aux services et informations dont ils ont besoin et qu’ils veulent obtenir – tel est le souhait exprimé par les adolescents et adolescentes qui ont participé à un atelier à Lomé (Togo) les 24 et 25 mars.

Preventing HIV, particularly among adolescents and youth, was the focus of a two-day meeting for 25 Sunday school teachers and chaplains from the Methodist Church of Togo, Evangelical Presbyterian Church of Togo, Assemblies of God, Baptist Convention and Pentecostal Church.

When a WCC meeting on ecumenical HIV and AIDS response concluded last week in Limuru, Kenya, its message to the global HIV and AIDS community was terse: traditional ways of tackling the pandemic have failed.