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The World Council of Churches (WCC) and the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV and AIDS (UNAIDS) publication highlights the lessons learnt from the project Strategic Engagement of Civil Society Networks and Faith Actors in the HIV Response in India, Dominican Republic, Indonesia, and Jamaica.

A webinar hosted by the World Council of Churches (WCC) on 26 November will explore “Conflict Zones and Covid-19: A call to compassion.” Speakers from Cameroon, Nigeria, South Sudan, Lebanon, Belarus and Colombia will offer their insights on how conflict exacerbates the conditions for contracting and treating COVID-19 among civilians caught in the crossfire, especially women.

The World Council of Churches, working with the Jamaica Council of Churches and Caribbean and North America Council for Mission, offered a training in Jamaica to help people cope with violence against children, particularly sexual violence, gang-related violence, and gun violence.

World Council of Churches (WCC) deputy general secretary Prof. Dr Isabel Apawo Phiri reflected on the recent Global Consultation on the Decade of the Churches in Solidarity, and what the insights gathered there might mean for the ecumenical movement.

Rev Prof. Dr Ofelia Ortega Suárez is a retired professor of Theology and Gender, and Christian Ethics for the Reformed-Presbyterian Church in Cuba. Ortega Suárez was born in Cuba. After her undergraduate studies in Theology and Christian Education at the Evangelical Theological Seminary in Matanzas, she completed her post-graduate studies in Ecumenical Theology at the World Council of Churches (WCC) Ecumenical Institute at Bossey. She returned to Cuba and obtained her master's degrees in Divinity and Education.

A warm welcome with cheers and high expectations awaited WCC general secretary Rev. Dr Olav Fykse Tveit when he touched down in Kingston earlier this week. The Jamaican capital was the first stop of a 10-day tour in the Caribbean.

Un accueil chaleureux, des applaudissements et de grandes attentes pour l’arrivée du secrétaire général du Conseil œcuménique des Églises (COE), le pasteur Olav Fykse Tveit, à Kingston en début de semaine. La capitale jamaïcaine est la première étape d’une tournée de 10 jours dans les Caraïbes.

During an open air common prayer event held in Nelson Mandela Park in Kingston, Jamaica on 4 October, women and men processed and sang, most of them dressed in black as they renewed and expanded their commitment to the Thursdays in Black campaign seeking a world free from rape and violence.

Linette Vassel has been associated with the struggle for women’s rights in the Caribbean since the 1970s. She was the first coordinator of the Committee of Women for Progress, an activist organisation formed in 1976 which was among the pioneering organisations for the struggle for maternity leave with pay for women.

Thirty years ago, the founders of the Ecumenical Decade of Churches in Solidarity with Women were searching for ways to not only help women across the globe seek justice but also highlight their contributions to churches and the world.

Il y a trente ans, l’équipe fondatrice de la Décennie œcuménique des Églises solidaires des femmes cherchait des moyens non seulement d’aider les femmes de toute la planète à réclamer justice, mais aussi de mettre en exergue ce qu’elles apportaient aux Églises et au monde.

What have we achieved in building a just community of women and men? What must we still do? How can we strengthen ecumenical collaboration in reading the signs of our times in order to map the future direction of our work?

Qu’avons-nous fait concrètement pour construire une communauté juste de femmes et d’hommes? Que devons-nous encore faire? Comment pouvons-nous renforcer la collaboration œcuménique en lisant les signes de notre temps pour dresser la carte de la voie à suivre dans nos travaux?

Marie Bassili Assaad, an ecumenical leader who was WCC deputy general secretary from 1980 to 1986, passed away on 30 August, at the age of 96. Her funeral took place in Egypt on 2 September.

Marie Bassili Assaad, responsable œcuménique qui fut secrétaire générale adjointe du Conseil œcuménique des Églises de 1980 à 1986, est décédée le 30 août à l’âge de 96 ans. Ses funérailles ont eu lieu en Égypte le 2 septembre.

An international consultation will commemorate the 20th anniversary of the Decade of the Churches in Solidarity with Women (1988-98), 1-6 October in Kingston, Jamaica.

Un colloque international commémorera le 20ᵉ anniversaire de la Décennie œcuménique des Églises solidaires des femmes (1988-1998) du 1ᵉʳ au 6 octobre prochain à Kingston, en Jamaïque.