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In a session on 4 July in Geneva, Switzerland, the WCC Central Committee focused on one of the world’s most threatening challenges – climate change.

Le Comité central du COE a consacré l’une de ses séances du 4 juillet à l’un des enjeux mondiaux les plus menaçants: les changements climatiques.

“The Palestinian people thirst for water justice.” So claims a recently issued statement by a fact-finding group that this month visited Jerusalem, the West Bank, and Gaza to better understand the critical issues of water and sanitation in Palestine.

Starting on Monday, 3 March, the “Seven Weeks for Water” campaign invites churches, faith-based organizations and individuals around the world to join a “pilgrimage towards water justice”.

À partir du lundi 3 mars, la campagne des «Sept semaines pour l'eau» invite les Églises, les organisations d'inspiration religieuse et les particuliers dans le monde entier à participer à un «pèlerinage vers la justice de l'eau». Ce thème est traité au travers d'une série de réflexions publiées chaque semaine pendant le carême, dans le but de sensibiliser les gens à la problématique de l'accès universel à l'eau et à l'assainissement.

A symbolic act of pouring water into one common vessel, carried out by religious leaders representing Christian, Muslim, Hindu, Jewish and Buddhist faiths, marked the significance of water in various religious traditions. This action took place at the WCC 10th Assembly, currently underway in Busan, Republic of Korea.

Celebrating water as God’s creation and reflecting on challenges faced by people having inadequate access to this life-giving resource, members of churches in Onex, Switzerland, gathered together in Geneva. Their meeting was held beside a pond called Étang des Mouilles on the rainy Sunday morning of 15 September.

Des fidèles des églises d'Onex, en Suisse, se sont rassemblés près de Genève pour célébrer l'eau, création de Dieu, et réfléchir aux difficultés auxquelles sont confrontés les gens qui n'ont pas un accès adéquat à cette ressource pourvoyeuse de vie. Leur réunion s'est tenue une matinée pluvieuse au bord de l'étang des Mouilles le dimanche 15 septembre.

A statement issued at the WCC consultation calls on churches, governments and the United Nations to ensure universal access to water, sanitation and hygiene, while placing access to water prominently on their post-2015 agendas.

Une déclaration publiée lors d'un colloque du COE appelle les Églises, les pouvoirs publics et les Nations Unies à garantir l'accès universel à l'eau, à l'assainissement et à l'hygiène, ainsi qu'à faire de l'accès à l'eau une priorité pour l'après-2015.

In a talk during the German Protestant Kirchentag in Hamburg, the WCC general secretary stressed the leading role of churches worldwide in the process of establishing justice and an ecologically-friendly way of life.

At the recent World Social Forum, ecumenical voices warned about the grave consequences of extraction of natural resources and mining, which they say generate a tremendous amount of social and ecological debt.

Church representatives at a recent Oikotree Global Forum in Johannesburg, South Africa stressed the need to support peoples'€™ movements promoting justice in the economy and ecology, a concern, they say, that lies at the heart of the faith.

Climate change is causing massive violations of human rights. This point was made at a side event on “human rights and climate change” during the 22nd session of the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva, Switzerland.

In La Paz, an ecumenical delegation delivered to Bolivian government officials a statement on ethical principles for a new global economic system. The statement was received by Bolivian minister of the presidency Juan Ramon Quintana at the government palace on 9 January.

The German Protestant aid agency Brot für die Welt has handed a steering wheel, symbol of its water campaign, over to the WCC, thus symbolically handing responsibility for this concern and a newly formed Ecumenical Water Network.