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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).

The All Africa Conference of Churches (AACC) and the World Council of Churches (WCC) are calling for justice for Memory Machaya, a 14-year-old who died while giving birth at the shrine of the Johanne Marange Apostolic Church. 

Church leaders in South Africa and Zimbabwe are participating in online workshops on “Churches and Child Safeguarding” on 3 and 5 August. Part of the World Council of Churches (WCC) partnership program with UNICEF, “Churches’ Commitments to Children,” the workshops are designed to nurture churches where children feel welcome and safe.

Two workshops in Nigeria and Tanzania organized by local church councils in collaboration with the World Council of Churches (WCC), All Africa Conference of Churches, and UNICEF consolidated the partnership on ending sexual violence against children.

Les deux ateliers organisés au Nigéria et en Tanzanie par les Conseils locaux des Églises, en collaboration avec le Conseil œcuménique des Églises (COE), la Conférence des Églises de toute l’Afrique et l’UNICEF, ont consolidé le partenariat pour mettre fin aux violences sexuelles contre des enfants.

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.

A wave of change is blowing at the All Africa Conference of Churches, as the African ecumenical body implements a new five-year strategic plan. In an ambitious six pillar road map, the grouping of Protestant, Anglican, Orthodox, and indigenous churches has unveiled completely new areas of work, as it moves to inject new energy into older programmes. At the core of the strategy is effectiveness, efficiency and reliability for the ecumenical body, which is keen to deliver on its prophetic mission.

Un vent de changement souffle sur la Conférence des Églises de toute l’Afrique (CETA) avec la mise en œuvre d’un nouveau plan stratégique quinquennal.
Dans une ambitieuse feuille de route en six points, ce regroupement d’Églises protestantes, anglicanes, orthodoxes et autochtones a dévoilé des axes de travail totalement nouveaux en vue d’insuffler une énergie nouvelle aux programmes existants. Au cœur de la stratégie: l’efficacité, l’efficience et la fiabilité de l’instance œcuménique, soucieuse de s’acquitter de sa mission prophétique.

The South Sudan Council of Churches, United Nations World Food Programme, and UNICEF have signed an agreement to work in partnership towards peace building to realize food security.

The latest issue of the International Review of Mission, the biannual journal of the WCC contains a selection of articles which were on the one hand given as key lectures at the Conference on World Mission and Evangelism in Arusha from 8-13 March 2018 and on the other hand articles from Missiologists from all over the world, including Catholic, Pentecostal, Protestant and Orthodox voices, asking about “Mission quo vadis after Arusha?”.

The voices of young people will ring through the Ecumenical Centre in Geneva on 21 November as part of global celebrations for World Children’s Day linked to other events involving the World Council of Churches (WCC) in different places.

Les voix des plus jeunes raisonneront dans les murs du Centre œcuménique le 21 novembre à Genève dans le cadre des célébrations pour la Journée mondiale de l’enfance, en lien avec d’autres événements impliquant le Conseil œcuménique des Églises (COE) à divers endroits.