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Morning Prayer for Tuesday, 17 November 2020

Creator-Redeemer-Sustainer, God of here and now: Stir within our lives...

This week in the Ecumenical Prayer Cycle, we are praying with the people and churches of East Timor (Timor Leste), Indonesia, and Philippines.

This week marks World Toilet Day (19 November) which celebrates toilets and raises awareness of the 4.2 billion people living without access to safely managed sanitation. It is about taking action to tackle the global sanitation crisis and achieve Sustainable Development Goal 6: water and sanitation for all by 2030.

This week also marks World Children’s Day on 20 November.

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Juntos por la Vida: Misión y Evangelización en Contextos Cambiantes

Desde 2006, tras la Asamblea del CMI celebrada en Porto Alegre, la Comisión de Misión Mundial y Evangelización ha estado trabajando y colaborando en la elaboración de una nueva afirmación ecuménica sobre la misión. La nueva declaración se presentará en la 10ª Asamblea del CMI que se celebrará en Busan (Corea), en 2013. Desde la integración del Consejo Misionero Internacional (CMI) y del Consejo Mundial de Iglesias (CMI) en 1961, en Nueva Delhi, el Comité Central del CMI solo ha aprobado una declaración oficial de posición sobre misión y evangelización, en 1982: “Misión y evangelización: una afirmación ecuménica”. Esta nueva afirmación sobre la misión fue aprobada por unanimidad el 5 de septiembre de 2012 por el Comité Central del CMI, que se reunió en Creta (Grecia). El objetivo de este proceso de discernimiento ecuménico es buscar perspectivas, conceptos y orientaciones en aras de la renovación del entendimiento y la práctica de la misión y la evangelización en contextos en evolución. Se pretende lograr un amplio apoyo, más allá del círculo de las iglesias miembros del CMI y las organizaciones misioneras afiliadas, a fin de que podamos comprometernos juntos en favor de la plenitud de vida para todos, bajo la orientación del Dios de Vida.

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Economy of Life, Justice, and Peace for All: A Call to Action

As a follow-up to the Alternative Globalization Addressing People and Earth (AGAPE) process, which concluded with the AGAPE Call presented at the WCC 9th Assembly in Porto Alegre in 2006, the WCC initiated a programme focused on eradicating poverty, challenging wealth accumulation and safeguarding ecological integrity based on the understanding that Poverty, Wealth and Ecology are integrally related. The AGAPE Call to Action is the result of a six-year process of consultations and regional studies.

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AGAPE Consultation: There's a new world in the making

This document arises from the North American consultation on poverty, wealth and ecology sponsored by the World Council of Churches and held in Calgary, Alberta from 6 to 11 November 2011. This consultation that included representatives from Christian confessions in Canada and the United States of America along with representatives from other ecumenical organizations and local and global ecumenical partners took place at a time of deep global financial crisis and people’s resistance around the world. It is directed to the World Council of Churches, its member churches and partner organizations and all who share in the ideals and goals of this conference.

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European Youth Hearing on Poverty, Wealth and Ecology

In response to the call to raise the voice of young people on climate justice, the young delegates of a WCC-CEC consultation on Poverty, Wealth and Ecology, representing young Christians in Europe through the Ecumenical Youth Council in Europe, World Student Christian Federation Europe Region and SYNDESMOS, the World Fellowship of Orthodox Youth, presented the following contribution to be taken into account in the process of the global ecumenical AGAPE consultation.

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