The Central Committee of the WCC recognizes the need for a drastic transformation at all levels in life and society in order to end the ecological indebtedness and restoring right relationships between peoples and between people and the earth.
A lecture in honour of the late Rev. Joseph Wing given during the 33rd Assembly of The United Congregational Church of Southern Africa - UCCSA-24th August,2009, Molepolole, Botswana
In Lateinamerika und der Karibik lasse sich ein "allmählicher Rückzug des Neoliberalismus" beobachten, erklärten die Teilnehmenden an einer regionalen ökumenischen Konsultation, die sich mit der Frage der Beziehungen zwischen Armut, Reichtum und Umwelt beschäftigte.
There is a "gradual retreat of neoliberalism" in the region, according to participants in a Latin America and Caribbean ecumenical consultation to examine the links between poverty, wealth and ecology.
Sina-Marei Degenhard took part in the WCC internship programme 2007. During their stay in Geneva each intern is expected to plan an ecumenical project to implement in his or her home context upon return. The report Sina-Marei Degenhard wrote about the project she implemented in Germany is published as an example.
A statement from the delegates of the ecumenical conference "Abolished, but Not Destroyed: Remembering the Slave Trade in the 21st Century" in Runaway Bay, Jamaica; December 2007
An "den Reichtum, der aus dem fortgesetzten Raubbau an den afrikanischen Ressourcen und aus der Ausbeutung der Menschen in Afrika geschöpft und zementiert worden ist," erinnerten die Teilnehmenden an einer afrikanischen ökumenischen Konsultation zum Thema "Die Wechselbeziehung von Armut, Reichtum und Umwelt" letzte Woche die Christen und Christinnen auf der nördlichen Halbkugel.
A severe reminder "of the wealth that was built and sustained on the continued extraction and plunder of Africa's resources as well as on the exploitation of Africa's people" was addressed to Christians in the global North by the participants in the African ecumenical consultation "Linking poverty, wealth and ecology" last week.
Statement by the Alternative Globalisation Addressing People and Earth (AGAPE) Consultation on Linking Poverty, Wealth and Ecology: Africa Ecumenical Perspectives
07-09 November 2007, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
Report by Marcelo Schneider from the AGAPE (Alternative Globalization Addressing People and Earth) consultation held in Dar Es Salaam, 5-9 November 2007.
