The World Council of Churches and Implenia, working with The Almighty Tree, joined a conservation initiative that planted hundreds of trees in Kenya and Switzerland.
As climate change induced floods terrorize communities in East Africa, clerics and officials here fear that nature was hitting back.
Floods have struck Kenya and Tanzania, leaving behind a trail of death, destruction, and displacement. Floods are most intense in some of the same areas previously struck by a lengthy drought described by the UN as the worst in four decades.
At the Orthodox Patriarchal Cathedral of St Anargyroi Church in Nairobi, Christians joined for ecumenical services to mark the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity, the annual event celebrated from 18-25 January.
World Council of Churches (WCC) general secretary Rev. Prof. Dr Jerry Pillay delivered a public lecture, “A Christian Voice in a World of Conflict,” at the University of South Africa on 27 November.
After fighting battles against severe droughts, Kenyan churches are preparing their communities for extreme rainfall, as weather experts warn of a possible El-Nino phenomenon from October-December.
The World Council of Churches (WCC) sent a message with prayers and hope to the General Synod of the Dutch Reformed Church in South Africa. “As you know the WCC is a fellowship of churches that seeks the unity of Christians in the world,” wrote WCC general secretary Rev. Prof. Dr Jerry Pillay.
El secretario general del Consejo Mundial de Iglesias (CMI), Rev. Prof. Dr. Jerry Pillay, se reunió con el presidente de Sudáfrica, Cyril Ramaphosa, para hablar de las iniciativas de paz en todo el mundo y del papel del CMI y los dirigentes sudafricanos.
Der Generalsekretär des Ökumenischen Rates der Kirchen (ÖRK), Pastor Prof. Dr. Jerry Pillay, hat sich mit dem südafrikanischen Präsidenten Cyril Ramaphosa getroffen, um mit ihm über Friedensinitiativen weltweit und über die Rolle des ÖRK und südafrikanischer Führungskräfte zu sprechen.
Le secrétaire général du Conseil œcuménique des Églises (COE), le pasteur Jerry Pillay, a rencontré le président sud-africain Cyril Ramaphosa pour évoquer les initiatives de paix dans le monde et le rôle du COE et des dirigeant-e-s sud-africain-e-s.
World Council of Churches (WCC) general secretary Rev. Prof. Dr Jerry Pillay met with South African president Cyril Ramaphosa, discussing peace initiatives across the globe—and the role of the WCC and South African leaders.
Die Kanonikerin Dr. Agnes Regina Murei Abuom wurde unter weltweiten Ehr- und Beileidsbekundungen in einem Gedenkgottesdienst als mutige Christin, Friedensstifterin und resolute Ökumenikerin gefeiert.
Une vague mondiale d'hommages et de condoléances déferle lors d'un service commémoratif afin de célébrer la chanoine Agnes Regina Murei Abuom comme une chrétienne audacieuse, une pèlerine de la paix et une meneuse œcuménique.
En medio de una avalancha mundial de homenajes y condolencias, se celebraron la vida de la canóniga Dra. Agnes Regina Murei Abuom, su valiente testimonio cristiano y su labor como pacificadora y firme ecumenista.
Amidst a global outpouring, tributes and condolences at a memorial service, Canon Dr Agnes Regina Murei Abuom was celebrated as bold Christian, peacemaker, and resolute ecumenist.
After a years-long battle against proposed water-related legislation in Nigeria that had high potential for privatizing water, the World Council of Churches (WCC) Ecumenical Water Network in Nigeria celebrated the defeat of the proposed law, and pledged to continue to protect water as a human right.
At an Anglican Church in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi, rhymes, children’s songs, and noises in a school are constant reminder of Dr Agnes Regina Murei Abuom, the global ecumenist and peacemaker who died on 31 May at age 73.
Agnes Abuom, querida dirigente ecuménica e infatigable pacificadora, ha fallecido a los setenta y tres años, en su Kenia natal, tras una breve enfermedad.
Die geliebte ökumenische Leiterin und unermüdliche Friedensstifterin Dr. Agnes Abuom ist im Alter von 73 Jahren in ihrem Heimatland Kenia nach kurzer Krankheit gestorben.
Agnes Abuom, meneuse œcuménique très appréciée et inlassable défenseuse de la paix, est décédée à l’âge de 73 ans au Kenya des suites d’une courte maladie.