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Peace education to promote mutual understanding and cooperation between people involving the religious and secular sectors is needed to counter uncertainty fed by radicalization and xenophobia, says a leading human rights advocate.

The latest edition of the quarterly WCC journal features a discussion of the roots of religion and violence in the Middle East. Five presentations drawn from three WCC-sponsored conferences of recent years explore aspects of the religious concepts of “promised land,” the “theology of land” and how to go about “reading the Hebrew Bible in solidarity with the Palestinian people.”

Despite being the third largest oil producing country in sub-Saharan Africa, Equatorial Guinea reels from a poor economy, a lack of good governance and of independent and functioning state institutions.

A pesar de ser el tercer mayor productor de petróleo del África subsahariana, Guinea Ecuatorial sufre de una economía deficiente, una mala administración y una falta de instituciones estatales independientes y operativas. Sobre estas cuestiones versaron las presentaciones realizadas por defensores de los derechos humanos de Guinea Ecuatorial en un evento paralelo patrocinado por el Consejo Mundial de Iglesias en la ONU en Ginebra.