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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.

Commission on World Mission and Evangelism

Altmann affirms signs of hope in the ecumenical movement

"The WCC can be and still is prophetic today,"€ said the Rev. Dr Walter Altmann, moderator of the World Council of Churches (WCC) Central Committee, reflecting on highs and lows in the ecumenical movement and on the identity of the WCC.

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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WCC forum issues a call to promote “economy of life”

On 22 June, the World Council of Churches (WCC) Global Forum on Poverty, Wealth and Ecology concluded with a strong call for action to evolve “transformative congregations” with moral courage to build an “economy of life” that focuses on er adicating poverty, challenging wealth accumulation and safeguarding ecological integrity.

Participants of WCC forum in Indonesia want “Justice, not greed”

“Institutionalized greed with structural consequences demands counter measures at the structural level, if we are to overcome pressing problems of poverty, socio-economic disparities and ecological destruction,” said Rev. Dr Konrad Raiser, former general secretary of the World Council of Churches (WCC).

WCC forum focuses on poverty, wealth and ecology

More than one hundred international participants, including representatives of churches and civil society, have gathered in Bogor, Indonesia for the Global Forum on Poverty, Wealth and Ecology. On 19 June, they spoke together about poverty eradication and the concepts of economic and ecological justice lying at the heart of Christian ethics.

Working together for social justice and decent work

The dignity of work and workers is a common value among the faith traditions. It is also the focus of a policy handbook titled Convergences: Decent Work and Social Justice in Religious Traditions , for which the World Council of Churches (WCC) has collaborated with the International Labour Organization (ILO) .

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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