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World Student Christian Federation reiterates calls for climate justice

The World Student Christian Federation, already with a history of calling for climate justice, continues to urge action and commitment from world leaders.

24 November 2021

Publication

ZacTax Toolkit

The Zacchaeus Tax Campaign calls for a global tax and economic system that acts like Zacchaeus, the tax collector who repented of his wicked ways, which delivers equity and makes reparation for exploitation and injustice.

This ZacTax Toolkit aims to educate and enable churches to organise around the issue of tax justice, the campaign has recently released the ZacTax Toolkit. It is published by the New International Financial and Economic Architecture initiative (NIFEA), a joint effort by the Council for World Mission, Lutheran World Federation, World Communion of Reformed Churches, World Council of Churches, and World Methodist Council. Funding is provided by Otto per Mille.

24 November 2021

Deadline for WCC 11th Assembly workshops extended to January 2022

Upon request of churches and ecumenical partners worldwide, the World Council of Churches (WCC) has extended the deadline for applications for workshops to be part of the “Brunnen” space of the WCC 11th Assembly in 2022. The new deadline is 15 January 2022.

24 November 2021

Blog post

The first week after COP26 — a short reflection

After nearly two years of preparations and two weeks of physical meeting, COP26 is over. People from all over the world came together to a major in-person meeting on a global level.

22 November 2021

Henrik Grape

Video feature

Animation of clouds on a blue sky, with the words 'Ecological Spirituality' in the middle.

Presbyterian Church of Trinidad and Tobago: “Instead of just activists, we create strategists”

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.

19 November 2021

Interview

A conversation with H.E. Metropolitan Serafim Kykotis on ecological metanoia

H.E. Metropolitan Serafim Kykotis, a member of the World Council of Churches Working Group on Climate Change, participated in COP26. Following is a conversation about “ecological metanoia,” a concept about which the metropolitan has been praying and thinking.

19 November 2021

Statement on the outcome of COP26

By the WCC Executive Committee, November 2021.

16 November 2021

Executive committee

Faith leaders call for urgent action at COP26

Time is running out. As the COP26 negotiations reach a critical moment, members of the global faith community, led by our sisters and brothers from the Global South, call for urgent and ambitious action to deliver justice for the most vulnerable people and communities.

12 November 2021

Ecumenical movement

Interview

Rev. Kleber Machado from Glasgow: no social justice without climate justice

Rev. Kleber Machado is a minister of the Church of Scotland at the St Andrew West Paris Church, in Glasgow, where COP26 is taking place. Below, he reflects on wider climate justice issues, as well as how he is bringing hope in his church’s own backyard.

12 November 2021

“Tax the rich, save the planet” discussion centers on equity, reparations

During a discussion, “Tax the rich, save the planet,” on 8 November, speakers explored how a global tax and economic system can deliver equity and make reparations for the exploitation of people and planet.

09 November 2021

“Climate Justice, Food, and Faith” webinar highlights calls for urgent change in action and spirit

A webinar, “Climate Justice, Food, and Faith,” on 9 November offered not only practical information on how climate change relates to food insecurity but also a call to change how we view our care for the earth and for hungry people.

09 November 2021

Blog post

Tackling the climate crisis through repentance and ecological conversion of “homo economicus”

Acknowledging the inspiration from Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I, the recommendations of the World Council of Churches (WCC), the Laudato Si’ Encyclical by Pope Francis, the ecumenical season of creation movement and the ecotheology and ECOTHEE Conferences and the corresponding Cretan appeals since 2009.

09 November 2021

Louk Adrianos

Declaration of the National Council of Churches in India on COP26

Declaration from National Council of Churches in India To the 26^th Session of the Conference of Parties (COP26) Of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) Scheduled to open on 31^stOctober 2021 in Glasgow, Scotland, UK.

07 November 2021

Member church

During visit to National Council of Churches (USA) His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew urges we “must change the way we see the world and society”

During an historic visit to the National Council of Churches (USA) on 26 October, His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew reflected that ecumenical dialogue is first and foremost a witness to our Christian faith.

04 November 2021

Interview

Dr Ofelia Ortega: “The vision of prophet Ezequiel became true”

On 12 October, Dr Ofelia Ortega received a “Illustrious Daughter of the City” award from Matanzas, Cuba. Ortega, former World Council of Churches (WCC) president for Latin America and the Caribbean, also served as a Bossey Ecumenical Institute professor as well as the WCC staff person responsible for Latin America and the Caribbean in the Programme on Theological Education.

28 October 2021

Feature story

Protecting Ethiopia’s church forests

In many parts of Ethiopia, the forests surrounding churches and monasteries are among the last remaining in the country. They are severely threatened as people cut trees to obtain firewood. The church fights for the preservation of the forests by making local communities more aware of the link between the forests and water availability and by helping them to find alternative livelihoods for themselves and their families.

27 October 2021

Global religious leaders representing half a billion Christians urge G20: “climate emergency demands deep-seated transformations”

In a letter to G20 leaders, global religious leaders representing half a billion Christians in over 100 countries warned that rising global temperatures will have increasingly disastrous consequences on impoverished and vulnerable communities that contribute least to the climate crisis.

26 October 2021

Joint Interfaith Statement for World Food Day, 16 October 2021, Pray and Act Against Hunger

As people of faith, we join in committing to pray and act against hunger at this time when 811m people worldwide go to bed hungry each night, hunger has increased globally by 25% since 2019, and across the globe more than 41m people–around half of them children–are at risk of falling into famine in 43 countries.

15 October 2021

WCC Programmes