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World Council of Churches (WCC) acting general secretary Rev. Prof. Dr Ioan Sauca participated in a virtual “High-Level Dialogue on Multi-religious Response to COVID-19 Vaccine” on 19 March with Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, director general of the World Health Organization (WHO), as well as leaders from other religious groups.

A panel of Jewish, Buddhist and Christian women reflected on the role of women in promoting interreligious cooperation in a webinar entitled “Women and Interfaith Engagement: sharing lessons learnt during COVID-19 and beyond.”

El Consejo Mundial de Iglesias y el Congreso Judío Mundial presentan un documento en el que invitan a los dirigentes religiosos a reflexionar e implicarse en cuestiones éticas relacionadas con la distribución mundial de la vacuna.

World Council of Churches, World Jewish Congress present paper inviting religious leaders to reflect, engage on ethical issues related to global vaccine distribution.

En el Día Mundial del SIDA, el Consejo Mundial de Iglesias (CMI) publicó un pódcast que analiza los efectos de la pandemia de COVID-19 en las personas que viven con el VIH y en los esfuerzos para prevenir nuevas infecciones.

A World Council of Churches (WCC) podcast released on World AIDS Day explores the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on people living with HIV, as well as COVID-19’s impact on efforts to prevent new HIV infections.

Among the massive social dislocations caused by the coronavirus pandemic, perhaps none is as plaintive as those to churches. Around the world, church gatherings, liturgies, fellowship, and service projects have been canceled or postponed or migrated online, precisely when Christian communities and those who rely on them need them most.

El Comité Ejecutivo del Consejo Mundial de Iglesias (CMI) se reunirá virtualmente del 1 al 3 de junio y ofrecerá solidaridad a un mundo en el que muchas personas se encuentran en situaciones críticas debido a la pandemia de la COVID-19.

As the UN secretary-general António Guterres shared a message on 12 May with religious leaders about how our shared vulnerability to the coronavirus pandemic reveals our common humanity, World Council of Churches (WCC) leaders agreed that solidarity is a foundation of a meaningful global response.

Following is the response of World Council of Churches (WCC) acting general secretary Rev. Prof. Dr Ioan Sauca to an open letter to the global ecumenical community on the Wuppertal Declaration, a conference message released in June 2019, when representatives from numerous countries and different denominational and faith traditions gathered in Wuppertal, Germany, to discuss the profound global ecological crisis.

A continuación figura la respuesta del secretario general interino del Consejo Mundial de Iglesias (CMI), Rev. Prof. Dr. Ioan Sauca, a la carta abierta a la comunidad ecuménica mundial sobre el “Llamado de Wuppertal”, que es el mensaje publicado en junio de 2019 de la conferencia en la que representantes de numerosos países y diferentes tradiciones religiosas y denominacionales se reunieron en Wuppertal (Alemania) para hablar de la profunda crisis ecológica mundial.

On Tuesday, 31 March at noon, Central European time, a panel of experienced church leaders and medical experts goes on air to address the global challenge of the COVID-19 pandemic from a medical, moral, and spiritual perspective. Moderated by outgoing World Council of Churches (WCC) general secretary, Rev. Dr Olav Fykse Tveit, the televised 60-minute session is accessible via the WCC website.

The World Association for Christian Communication (WACC) is urging us all to use and promote technologies to unite people and communities divided by adversity.

“The Pacific Conference of Churches welcomes you on board our ecumenical canoe, as we sail and voyage together beyond the fringing reefs and rocks of the many issues that affect us here in the Pacific and globally, and set sail with our eyes firmly fixed on the island of hope,” said Rev. Dr James Bhagwan, Pacific Conference of Churches general secretary as he welcomed participants of the World Council of Churches (WCC) Pilgrimage of Justice and Peace to Fiji, on 20 January.

“If we should be true to our faith, we cannot be quiet when we see what is happening,” reads the declaration of the Interfaith Liaison Committee to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change to the United Nations climate change summit COP25 taking place in Madrid, Spain, 2-13 December. “We are voices that are driven by hope and compassion. In a most urgent situation to bend the emissions down faith traditions must contribute to the urgent transformation.”

“God is never indifferent to climate change that weakens the already weakened, impoverished and scattered populations throughout our world,” said Rev. Dr Nestor Friedrich, from Brazil, as he delivered the sermon during an ecumenical prayer service held on 8 December, in the Spanish Evangelical Church, in Madrid, during the United Nations climate change summit COP25.