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Los extraordinarios esfuerzos para desarrollar vacunas contra la COVID-19 y desplegar programas de vacunación masiva ofrecen esperanza a millones de personas en todo el mundo. Durante la pandemia, las organizaciones de salud pública han colaborado estrechamente con las organizaciones no gubernamentales y religiosas. Eso ha marcado la diferencia, tanto al hacer llegar al público información objetiva sobre las vacunas como al alentar a las personas a que actúen de forma solidaria vacunándose.

Extraordinary efforts to develop vaccines against COVID-19 and roll out mass vaccination programmes provide hope to millions of people around the globe. Throughout the pandemic, public health organizations have collaborated closely with non-government- and faith-based organizations. That has made a difference, both in getting factual information about vaccines across to the public, and in encouraging people to act in solidarity by getting vaccinated.    

 

تمنح الجهود الاستثنائية المبذولة لوضع اللقاحات ضد كوفيد-17 وتنفيذ برامج تلقيح مهولة الأمل للملايين من الناس في جميع ربوع العالم. وتعاونت منظمات الصحة العمومية بشكل مكثف مع المنظمات غير الحكومية والدينية. وهذا أحدث فرقاً في توصيل المعلومات الوقائعية عن اللقاحات إلى الجمهور وتشجيع الناس على التضامن من خلال تلقي اللقاح.

After releasing in 2020 the research paper Cooler Earth - Higher Benefits: Actions by those who care about children, climate and finance, the World Council of Churches (WCC) is launching a tool to be used online or in print, encouraging young people to promote financial choices in response to the climate crisis.

The Inaugural Symposium on Faith and Flourishing: Strategies for Preventing and Healing Child Sexual Abuse, held 8-10 April, drew more than 1,300 people who want to work together to prevent and heal child sexual abuse.

The Inaugural Symposium on Faith and Flourishing: Strategies for Preventing and Healing Child Sexual Abuse is taking place from 8-10 April, and features  73 speakers from 23 countries around the world.

The World Council of Churches (WCC) will host a webinar on 15 March that looks candidly at “signs of the times” after one whole year has passed since the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a pandemic.

Co-organised by World Council of Churches (WCC), UNICEF’s Europe and Central Asia Regional Office, the Joint Learning Initiative on Faith & Local Communities, and the European Council of Religious Leaders-Religions for Peace, the regional interreligious conference on 10-11 December explored ways to accompany children affected by migration.

The World Council of Churches (WCC), in an online discussion on 10 December entitled “Children front and centre of climate action,” engaged with experts and young people to find  ways to boost children’s participation in climate change solutions.

The fruits of an intergenerational, international dialogue have been published as a "Statement on Faith in Action for Children: Taking Action Together for Children in Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic and Beyond.”

During an intergenerational, international dialogue on 19 November, World Council of Churches deputy general secretary Prof. Dr Isabel Apawo Phiri spoke on poverty in the context of COVID-19, and how it relates to sustainability, climate change and the use of natural resources.

In a lively video exchange, Elizabeth Wathuti, founder of Green Generation Initiative and head of campaigns at Wangari Maathai Foundation in Kenya, asks World Council of Churches interim general secretary Rev. Prof Dr Ioan Sauca a key question: “What is your message to children and young people?”

Celebrating International Children's Day, the World Council of Churches (WCC) has released a research paper "Cooler Earth - Higher Benefits: Actions by those who care about children, climate and finance.” The publication gives suggestions of how churches and other organizations around the world can respond to the climate emergency through investment decisions which are crucial to protect children from global warming.