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The church as the healing community

In January 2025, I spent time with churches in Bolivia making an appeal for the church to become a healing community. For countries like Bolivia, with several health problems and lack of access to basic healthcare needs, the divine calling and pastoral care mandate for health and healing is unavoidable. 

El CMI publica un manual sobre instrumentos jurídicos para promover la justicia climática

Un manual recientemente publicado, “Hope for Children Through Climate Justice: Legal Tools to Hold Financiers Accountable” (Esperanza para los niños mediante la justicia climática: instrumentos jurídicos para responsabilizar a las entidades financieras), proporciona a las iglesias y comunidades religiosas una serie de herramientas jurídicas esenciales concebidas para exigir a los actores financieros que rindan cuentas por su papel en perpetuar la crisis climática.

Las iglesias contra los prejuicios

manual ecuménico para eliminar los prejuicios (in)conscientes
Dr Elaine Brown Spencer
Dr Masiiwa Ragies Gunda

Unlearning—Undoing—Relearning— Redoing

Unconscious biases and microaggressions are being experienced by many people in society, as well as in faith communities. Faith-based and related workplaces are not immune to these attitudes and practices. While significant investment has gone into mitigating conscious biases, racism, xenophobia, casteism and discrimination, the impact of unconscious biases and microaggressions are equally destructive. This toolkit invites and challenges Christians to intentionally invest in mitigating unconscious biases and microaggressions by employing a diversity, equity and inclusion lens in policies, practices and programming. Inclusive cultures in community and workplaces are more desirable and Christ-like.

Communique of the World Council of Churches and the Dicastery for Interreligious Dialogue meeting, Rome, 17-20 February 2025

The World Council of Churches Office of Interreligious Dialogue and Cooperation, and the Dicastery for Interreligious Dialogue, during an annual meeting held in Rome from 17-20 February, reviewed the impact of past joint initiatives, took note of interreligious activities by the respective entities, explored future joint projects, and laid the groundwork for the 50th anniversary of collaboration between the two offices in 2027.

WCC Programmes

Webinar: Bekämpfung von Desinformation komplex, aber nötig

Am Webinar „Religion and Disinformation: How to be a trusted source“ (Religion und Desinformation: Wie man eine vertrauenswürdige Quelle ist), das am 3. Dezember stattfand und vom Ökumenischen Rat der Kirchen (ÖRK) und der Weltvereinigung für christliche Kommunikation (WACC) organisiert wurde, wurden Fallbeispiele aus afrikanischen Ländern zur Prävention und Bekämpfung von Desinformation vorgestellt. 

Un seminario web concluye que combatir la desinformación es complejo, pero que es algo que debe hacerse

Un seminario web celebrado el 3 de diciembre, bajo los auspicios del Consejo Mundial de Iglesias (CMI) y la Asociación Mundial para la Comunicación Cristiana (WACC, por sus siglas en inglés), con el título “Religión y desinformación: cómo ser una fuente fiable”, presentó casos de estudio de países africanos sobre cómo prevenir y combatir la desinformación. 

HIV/AIDS until when?

Many people living with HIV like me, would really like to say the HIV pandemic has finished and a cure and vaccine are available. That is aspirational; it is a dream. Currently there are 39 million people living with HIV, but only 29 million have access to treatment. 

Tomar Medidas Contra La Violencia De Género Facilitada Por La Tecnología

Manual De Recursos Para Formadores Y Activistas

Copublication of WACC and WCC.

The Toolkit equips trainers and advocates to plan and facilitate training sessions on monitoring misogyny on social media.

Taking Action Against Tech-Facilitated Gender-Based Violence outlines key concepts, with practical exercises, to raise participants’ awareness of gender cyberviolence. It presents the tools needed to conduct social media monitoring, report on the results, and plan further monitoring.

The toolkit is divided into five sections that facilitators can use to structure training sessions:

  • Today’s media landscape
  • Impact of tech-facilitated gender-based violence
  • Methodology of social media monitoring
  • Social media monitoring in practice
  • Action plan for participants

Dipanggil Untuk Transformasi: Diakonia Oikoumenis

This Indonesian translation was published under a non-exclusive license by PT BPK Gunung Mulia and not reviewed. 

A joint publication of the World Council of Churches (WCC) and ACT Alliance, this study document aims to clarify the understanding of ecumenical diakonia and to provide a common platform for acting and reflecting together for the churches and ecumenical partners worldwide. 

The major publication outlines the theological components of diakonia and offers practical content for those engaged in the service of diakonia. The study document is intended to be used for formation and training in ecumenical diakonia, to strengthen the institutional capacity of those involved in diakonia, and to foster dialogue and cooperation between churches, ecumenical partners, ACT Alliance and the WCC.