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The seventh and final reflection of the Seven Weeks for Water 2014 is by Stephen Larson, the interim pastor of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Geneva, English-speaking congregation. In this reflection, he narrates the “watery Lenten journey” of his congregation, inspired by the EWN’s Seven Weeks for Water. His congregation chose water as the theme for all the 7 weeks of Lent, including Holy Week through Easter. You can find various worship resources used by this congregation during their Lenten journey on the EWN website.

The fifth  Biblical reflection of the Seven Weeks for Water 2014 is by Fulata Mbano-Moyo, a Malawian Reformed systematic theologian and  WCC's programme executive for women in church and society.   Reflecting on the story of the Samaritan woman, she highlights that water is life: important for renewal; needed by everyone, regardless of race, sex, age, ability or any other quality; a gift of God that should not be privatized and confined to the powerful so as to deprive the less powerful; and that like the Samaritan woman, each one of us should make sure that we work towards making physical and spiritual water accessible to all.

"An urgent call to action for a just peace in Syria" - statement from the WCC Ecumenical Consultation on Syria, held 15-17 January 2014, at the Ecumenical Centre to be presented at the Geneva 2 talks on Syria.

A guide for organizations working with children, published by the International Catholic Child Bureau, BICE.

A guide designed to assist organizations to meet their responsibilities for safeguarding children, published by the registered charity Keeping Children Safe.

A Toolkit for safeguarding children and protecting them from harm.

This report brings together the findings of a literature review on birth registration in emergencies, Plan’s own experiences, and experiences from other agencies.

A statistical analysis of violence against children, published by UNICEF.

This study aims to document promising practices on child protection and peacebuilding and on how child protection programming contributes to peacebuilding and education initiatives.

Registering a child’s birth is a critical first step towards safeguarding lifelong protection. Promoting children’s right to birth registration falls clearly within UNICEF’s mandate.

This UNICEF publication presents the latest available data on the extent of unregistered children and assesses progress to date in increasing birth registration rates worldwide.

This booklet explains the contents of the international commitment of the OPSC, which explains what can be done to stop sexual violence against children and how we can help the children affected.

This UNICEF survey reveals that there has been some progress on these issues since the 2006 study, but this progress has been too slow, too uneven and too fragmented to bring violence to an end.

From Hallelujah! (AWPC © 2013 WCC)

In this publication by the SRSG you will find infromation about a set of commitments that help protect children and support them when their rights have been violated.

An EDAN conference on "violence against women and children with disabilities" was held from 27 February to 2 March 2013 in Johannesburg.

Child Friendly Churches is a strategy to empower local churches to transform their local congregations and communities in favour of children.

Aims to empower local churches to transform their local congregations and communities in favour of children.

Also published in "Hallelujah!" (AWPC © 2012 WCC)

On 7 December at the Conference of Parties of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), while no agreement has been reached, the World Council of Churches (WCC) delivered a statement to the High-Level Ministerial Segment of COP 18 in Doha, Qatar. The WCC statement delivered to the plenary stressed that “Climate change is happening! It is imperative to act now without more delays in view of the serious and potentially irreversible impacts of climate change.” The statement was read by Metropolitan Serafim of Zimbabwe, from the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Alexandria and All Africa.