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Au Rwanda, les responsables d’Église pleurent la disparition de 130 personnes après les inondations massives qui ont frappé plusieurs districts de ce minuscule pays d’Afrique de l’Est.

Church leaders in Rwanda are mourning the death of 130 people after massive floods struck several districts in the tiny East African country.

The World Council of Churches, in a public statement, is urging the government of the United Kingdom to reconsider the UK-Rwanda Migration and Economic Development Partnership.

Lors d’une cérémonie, le Conseil d’Églises de Sierra Leone a lancé une nouvelle publication, The Church in Post COVID-19 Sierra Leone (L’Église en Sierra Leone au sortir de la crise de COVID-19), sous la direction d’ACee Temple-Anono, nom de plume de l’évêque Arnold C. Temple.

In a ceremony, the Council of Churches in Sierra Leone released the new publication “The Church in Post COVID-19 Sierra Leone,” edited by Rt. Rev. Arnold C. Temple, under his pen name ACee Temple-Anono.

Rev. Fr Dr Lawrence Iwuamadi is dean of the Ecumenical Institute, the graduate school which opened its academic year this week. Below, Iwuamadi reflects on the arrival of new students at the Ecumenical Institute during this remarkable time.

Bishop John K. Yambasu, resident bishop of the United Methodist Church in Sierra Leone and president of the Council of Churches in Sierra Leone, died suddenly in a road accident on 16 August.

In a message about the current security situation in Sierra Leone, representatives of the Christian community urged the political chaos be addressed immediately, even as the nation tries to stop the spread of COVID-19.

Young African clergy, theologians and laypersons are eager to engage with the challenging issues facing their continent and the world. This became clear in a recent essay competition for authors below 35 years by the World Council of Churches (WCC) in partnership with the All Africa Conference of Churches (AACC).

Les jeunes membres du clergé, théologiens et laïcs africains sont impatients de s’attaquer aux problèmes complexes qui touchent leur continent et le monde entier. C’est ce qui est apparu clairement lors d’un concours d’écriture destiné aux auteurs de moins de 35 ans et organisé par le Conseil œcuménique des Églises (COE), en partenariat avec la Conférence des Églises de toute l’Afrique (CETA).

A workshop co-facilitated by the World Council of Churches (WCC) and the South Sudan Council of Churches in South Sudan on 1-3 May drew 18 people to explore resources churches use to aid in trauma healing. Participants also discussed potential common approaches that could unite churches in their response to people faced with trauma.

The life of Rev. Dr Rena Joyce Weller Karefa-Smart is being remembered and commended this week by the WCC fellowship after her passing last week. Karefa-Smart was the first Pan African woman to graduate in 1945 from Yale Divinity School. She was a champion for global ecumenism over the course of a long and distinguished career. An attendee of the first WCC Assembly, she was also a procession leader and author of the liturgies at the second WCC Assembly in Evanston, Illinois (USA).

The WCC is absorbing valuable input from communities in Rwanda that will help hone training aimed at changing attitudes toward antiretroviral medication for people living with HIV.

Three weeks have now passed since this year’s edition of the World Water Week in Stockholm, Sweden was wrapped up and delegates from all over the world headed home, inspired to “float” the issues, as the WCC Ecumenical Water Network chairperson, Bishop Arnold Temple from Sierra Leone, put it.

Last week, the chairperson of the WCC Ecumenical Water Network, bishop Arnold Temple from The Methodist Church Sierra Leone, came to Stockholm to participate in the World Water Week, which is the world’s leading annual water event where experts and decision-makers from all over the world gather to strengthen the systems and processes that govern access to – and protection of – fresh water.

In a plenary presentation given at the 11th All Africa Conference of Churches (AACC) Assembly in Kigali, Rwanda, on 5 July, World Council of Churches (WCC) deputy general secretary Isabel Apawo Phiri offered “An Overview on the Imperative of Diakonia for the Church.”

Dans une présentation plénière donnée lors de la 11e Assemblée de la Conférence des Églises de toute l’Afrique (CETA) à Kigali, au Rwanda, le 5 juillet dernier, la secrétaire générale adjointe du Conseil œcuménique des Églises (COE), Isabel Apawo Phiri, a donné «Une vue d’ensemble de l’impératif de la diaconie pour l’Église».

World Council of Churches (WCC) general secretary Rev. Dr Olav Fykse Tveit spoke on “The Oneness of the Ecumenical Movement” at the All Africa Conference of Churches (AACC) 11th General Assembly, being held in Kigali, Rwanda from 1-7 July.

À l'occasion de la 11e Assemblée générale de la Conférence des Églises de toute l'Afrique (CETA), qui se tient du 1er au 7 juillet à Kigali (Rwanda), le pasteur Olav Fykse Tveit, secrétaire général du Conseil œcuménique des Églises (COE), s'est exprimé sur «L'unité du mouvement œcuménique».