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At the World Social Forum 2024, taking place 15-19 February in Nepal, the World Council of Churches (WCC) will have an active role in this platform for the convergence of a diverse range of participants, including social movements, laborers, farmers, civil society groups, marginalized communities, and those affected by the impacts of neoliberal capitalism and privatization. 

The World Council of Churches (WCC) joined Caritas Internationalis, ACT Alliance, World Evangelical Alliance, and Lutheran World Federation in signing a joint letter to USAID administrator Samantha Power expressing concern over the suspension of food aid in Ethiopia.

African Church leaders are highlighting the need to tame the continent’s persistent post-harvest losses, as organizations point at rising food insecurity due to the coronavirus pandemic.

South Sudan church leaders are among African clerics who are highlighting a painful “hunger pandemic” in their countries, as experts warn of aggravated food insecurity in regions due to coronavirus.

Fr James Oyet Latansio, general secretary of the South Sudan Council of Churches, said the disease had devastated families, creating a “triple pandemic” including COVID-19, gender-based violence and severe hunger.

Während die UN darauf aufmerksam macht, dass die Coronavirus-Pandemie zu einer „großflächigen Hungersnot biblischen Ausmaßes“ führen wird, durch die Millionen von Menschen vom Hungertod bedroht sind, betonte ein hochrangiges Oberhaupt der Christen in Afrika, dass es möglich sei, den Hunger, der so viele Menschen auf dem afrikanischen Kontinent unterjoche, zu besiegen.

As the UN warns that the coronavirus pandemic is pushing millions to the brink if starvation in a “widespread famine of biblical proportions,” a senior Christian leader in Africa has emphasised that it is possible to beat hunger, a yoke that enslaves many in the continent.

Al tiempo que la ONU advierte que la pandemia del coronavirus está llevando a millones de personas al borde de la inanición en una “hambruna generalizada de proporciones bíblicas”, un alto dirigente cristiano de África ha subrayado que es posible vencer el hambre, un yugo que esclaviza a muchas personas en su continente.

Alors que les Nations Unies tirent la sonnette d’alarme face aux millions de personnes poussées par la pandémie de coronavirus au bord d’une «famine généralisée aux proportions bibliques», un haut responsable chrétien en Afrique insiste sur la possibilité de vaincre la faim, sous le joug de laquelle se trouvent de nombreuses personnes sur le continent.

Recent calls for increased action against hunger by church leaders, faith-based humanitarian agencies and development leaders are finding significance as a new report warns of serious levels of under-nutrition in sub-Saharan Africa.

Victoria Falls is known locally as Mosi-oa Tunya ("The Smoke that Thunders") due to the power of the water from the Zambezi River that often flows across one of the great wonders of the world. Today it is a mere trickle.

Dr Mathews George Chunakara, general secretary of the Christian Conference of Asia, addressed young people attending an Eco-School in Chiang Mai, Thailand, noting that large numbers of people in Asia don’t have access to safe drinking water.

Twenty-seven young people from 11 countries across Asia officially began the World Council of Churches (WCC) Eco-School in Chiang Mai, Thailand. The school will run from 4-17 November, exploring water, food, and climate justice.

An unfolding drought in Africa is threatening hunger for tens of millions of people in the horn, eastern and southern parts of the continent.

World Council of Churches (WCC) general secretary Rev. Dr Olav Fykse Tveit reflected on the “10 Commandments of Food” during a Seminar on Food and Water for Life, on 4 May, in Hong Kong.