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Almost forty years after the advent of HIV and AIDS, people around the world living with HIV still endure assaults on their dignity and basic human rights—from stigma and discrimination to denial of legal protection and even medical care.

Participants in a recent conference on the refugee crisis in Europe, hosted by the WCC, said they felt energized by the reports from a multitude of activities undertaken by churches from Lebanon to Finland through Serbia, Greece and Germany.

Les participants à la récente Conférence sur la crise des réfugiés en Europe, accueillie par le COE, se sont déclarés encouragés après avoir pris connaissance de la multitude d’activités mises en place par les Églises, du Liban à la Finlande, en passant par la Serbie, la Grèce et l’Allemagne.

Two major crises have marked the months since the WCC called Katalina Tahaafe-Williams to work in Geneva on its migration, indigenous, and multicultural ministry programmes. When she took up the job in October, the European refugee crisis was in full flow. Then in November, terrorists attacked Paris.

“We are not speaking of people leaving one less-than-affluent suburb to go to a more affluent one because they seek a better quality of life; these are people leaving war-torn, poverty-stricken and conflict-filled near-anarchic states to find protection and safety for themselves and for their families.”

L’évêque orthodoxe copte Angaelos peut se prévaloir d’une certaine autorité quand il évoque les réfugiés et les chrétiens du Moyen-Orient.

The Churches’ Commission for Migrants in Europe and the WCC have published a revised and updated edition of their joint study, Mapping Migration: Mapping Churches’ Responses in Europe. The 2016 text explores challenges and changes in the European church landscape in light of international migration.

Primates from across the Anglican Communion are meeting 11-16 January in Canterbury at the invitation of Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby. The leaders of the 38 provinces are gathering for the first time since their meeting in Dublin in 2011. Within the Anglican Communion, the primates’ meeting is understood as one of the four “instruments of communion”.

Azad is a refugee from the north of Aleppo, Syria and is currently in The Jungle camp in Calais, France. “It’s hard here” says Azad, and then falls quiet. “People are hungry, cold, afraid and we can’t do anything”. He’s sitting cross-legged on the floor of a small shelter.

Azad* est un réfugié originaire d’Alep en Syrie. Il se trouve actuellement dans le camp de réfugiés qu’on appelle la «jungle» de Calais, dans le nord de la France. «C’est dur ici», confie Azad, avant de retomber dans le silence. «Les gens ont faim, froid et peur et on ne peut rien faire». Il est assis en tailleur sur le sol d’un petit abri.

“Children should be at the front of the church, not the back.” That was the refrain when the World Council of Churches and the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), in a new official partnership, met recently.

Capitalizing on momentum from the recent COP21 accord in Paris was the focus of a meeting of the WCC general secretary and the Archbishop of Canterbury at Lambeth Palace on 16 December.

Bible Societies are working in more than 200 countries and territories around the world to make known the Word of God. At the heart of the work – from the translation of Holy Scripture to publishing, distribution and advocacy, and engagement activities – is the principle of collaborating with and serving the churches.

At “World Cafés”, compelling examples of concrete work to create a better world for children were presented at the WCC-UNICEF seminar on Children's Rights held 19 November.

A WCC delegation visited Ireland from 28 November to 1 December to explore how the international ecumenical community may best support churches in the global fellowship and work together on the Pilgrimage of Justice and Peace.

Du 28 novembre au 1er décembre, une délégation du COE a visité l’Irlande afin d’explorer des façons pour la communauté œcuménique internationale de mieux soutenir la communauté fraternelle d’Églises et de travailler avec elle dans le cadre du pèlerinage de justice et de paix.

A delegation from the WCC went to the Inter Faith Centre at the Dublin City University in the Republic of Ireland as part of the four-day member church visit to Ireland from 28 November to 1 December.

Une délégation du COE a visité le Centre interreligieux de l’Université Dublin City en République d’Irlande, du 28 novembre au 1er décembre, dans le cadre d’une visite de quatre jours aux Églises membres d’Irlande.

Mere days after terror attacks in Beirut and Paris, the theme of an interfaith meeting of Christians and Muslims at the Ecumenical Centre in Geneva on “Religion, Peace and Violence” was entirely appropriate, said participants.

World leaders will meet at the crucial United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP 21) in Paris from 30 November to 11 December. Faith groups around the world are building awareness of the importance of reaching a binding and ambitious agreement at the talks. In October, WCC members have taken part in climate activities in Germany.