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The World Council of Churches (WCC) will host an online prayer service on World AIDS Day, observed this year on 1 December.

In an online ecumenical prayer service on 16 October, the World Council of Churches (WCC) observed World Food Day with the WCC global family, reflecting deeply on what it means to “Grow, Nourish, Sustain Together.”

Churches around the world will be observing Churches' Week of Action on Food from 11-17 October as hunger is a stark reality for 26.4 percent of the world’s population. The theme of the World Food Day, which falls on 16 October this year, is “Grow, Nourish, Sustain Together.”

Les Églises du monde entier observeront la Semaine d’action des Églises pour l’alimentation du 11 au 17 octobre, alors que la famine touche durement 26,4 pour cent de la population mondiale. Le thème de la Journée mondiale de l’alimentation, célébrée cette année le 16 octobre, est: «Cultiver, nourrir et préserver. Ensemble».

For World AIDS Day 2019, the World Council of Churches (WCC) embraces the theme "Communities make the difference." World AIDS Day is being commemorated in the context of 16 Days Against Gender-based Violence, an annual international campaign that began on 25 November and ends on 10 December, Human Rights Day. The WCC also helps bring about grassroots awareness and change through the Thursdays in Black campaign for a world free from rape and violence.

Twenty-seven young people from 11 countries across Asia officially began the World Council of Churches (WCC) Eco-School in Chiang Mai, Thailand. The school will run from 4-17 November, exploring water, food, and climate justice.

The tally of undernourished people is climbing again after decades of worldwide progress in the fight against hunger and the rise is of grave concern for the World Council of Churches (WCC), its ecumenical partners and the United Nations.

Le nombre de personnes sous-alimentées repart à la hausse après des décennies de progrès réalisés à l’échelle planétaire dans la lutte contre la faim, provoquant les vives inquiétudes du Conseil œcuménique des Églises (COE), de ses partenaires œcuméniques et des Nations Unies.

Observed on 13-20 October, the WCC Ecumenical Advocacy Alliance invites churches around the world again to a Churches’ Week of Action on Food, an opportunity to pray, reflect and take action together, for food justice across the globe.