World Council of Churches general secretary Rev. Prof. Dr Jerry Pillay, in a letter to the United Nations General Assembly, voiced support for a resolution condemning the ongoing blockade imposed on the Republic of Cuba.
As many communities worldwide battle to get food to the table, a World Council of Churches (WCC) webinar titled ‘Racism, Land and Food' highlighted the intersections of food, land, and racial injustices on food sovereignty over generations of dispossessed groups.
A group of intern ministers from the Presbyterian Church of Trinidad and Tobago (PCTT)—including Cynara Dube-Sookoo, Bjorn Warde, and Robert Dinnoo—worked with PCTT synod moderator Rt. Rev. Joy E. Abdul-Mohan to produce a video about how young people and churches can lead the way toward climate justice.
God’s creation groans in the Amazon forest, a sacred space for 34 million people suffering from the growth of inequality, land invasion, extractivism, relaxation of environmental laws, criminalization and murder of its defenders, and arson orchestrated by agribusiness—all of it made worse by proselytizing.
La création de Dieu gémit dans la forêt amazonienne, un espace sacré pour 34 millions de personnes souffrant de la croissance des inégalités, de l’invasion des terres, de l’extractivisme, de l’assouplissement des lois environnementales, de la criminalisation et du meurtre de ses défenseurs, et des incendies volontaires orchestrés par l’agribusiness – le tout aggravé par le prosélytisme.
Turtles, both in the Caribbean and elsewhere, are becoming increasingly confused. Their main prey of jelly fish doesn’t taste the same nowadays and is much more difficult to digest. Often, turtles die after having ingested plastic bags they thought were jelly fish.
Les tortues, des Caraïbes ou d’ailleurs, perdent de plus en plus le Nord. Leur principale proie, la méduse, n’a plus le même goût ces derniers temps, il est aussi plus difficile de la digérer. Bien souvent, les tortues meurent après avoir ingéré des sacs en plastique qu’elles avaient pris pour des méduses.
Students of communication and theology will address questions of media and globalization and then explore how these relate to the theme of religion in mass media, as part of a global summer school held from 23 to 31 July in Jamaica.
Des étudiants en communication et en théologie vont aborder des questions concernant les médias et la mondialisation, puis ils examineront le lien entre ces questions et le sujet de la religion dans les médias. Tel sera le thème d’une université d’été internationale qui se déroule du 23 au 31 juillet à la Jamaïque.
Vibrant opening worship held at Luyanó Presbyterian Reformed Church in Havana, Cuba marked the beginning of the executive committee meeting of the World Communion of Reformed Churches in Havana, Cuba from 7-13 May. The meeting was hosted by the Presbyterian Reformed Church in Cuba, a member church of the WCC.
