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The Bangkok Declaration and Call

Statement from the Global Ecumenical Conference on Justice for Dalits, March 21-24, 2009, Bangkok, Thailand

02 April 2009

Ecumenical movement

Opening march at the World Social Forum in Belém, Brazil, 27 January - 1 Feburary 2009.

Global finances can and must change - here's how

By Juan Michel (*)

12 February 2009

Statement on the Doha Outcome Document

Radical changes and tangible commitments from world leaders are needed if an equitable and sustainable global economic system is to be built, says an ecumenical delegation attending a UN conference on financing for development 29 November-02 December 2008.

29 November 2008

WCC Programmes

With a mixture of realism and optimism, Rev. Baranite Kirata explained that "it is now too late to do something for Kiribati, Tuvalu and the Marshall Islands; but together, we are the world, and it is not too late to do something for us all." Photo: Tavulu Island, by Stefan Lins .

Climate change: It is too late to save our island, but not too late for the world, say Pacific Christians

At the 16-21 November United Nations Advocacy Week of the World Council of Churches (WCC) Christians from the Pacific islands have appealed for worldwide solidarity with regard to climate change, a question of life and death in their communities.

24 November 2008

Rice put out for drying. South Sulawesi, Indonesia, July 2004. Photo: Peter Williams / WCC.

Global food crisis has a spiritual dimension, says Kobia

For one billion of the world population, "living with constant hunger" is "a normal state". However, there is nothing normal about that fact, which is "a result of the ways our societies have chosen to produce, share, buy and sell food".

24 November 2008

Statement on the global financial crisis

15 November 2008

General Secretary

Kids at play in Monrovia's SKD Stadium - during the height of the fighting in Liberia's civil war tens of thousands of people sought shelter there. Photo: Callie Long/ACT International

Wars in Sierra Leone and Liberia are over, peace-building is not

"Please remind the world that we are no longer at war," a high-ranking government official from Sierra Leone told an international ecumenical team visiting churches and ecumenical organizations in Liberia and Sierra Leone from 2 to 8 November.

12 November 2008

World Food Day 2008

WCC General Secretary's Statement on the Global Food Crisis on the occasion of World Food Day - 16 October 2008

16 October 2008

General Secretary

Small-scale chicken farmer in Bangladesh. Photo: Peter Williams/WCC

WCC urges international institutions and governments to uphold the right to food

As "the global food crisis continues to unfold and impact on the most vulnerable in our societies," the World Council of Churches (WCC) general secretary Rev. Dr Samuel Kobia has called on international institutions and governments to move into swift action.

16 October 2008

AGAPE Consultation: Guatemala Declaration

10 October 2008

Ecumenical movement

AGAPE Consultation: Guatemala womens' statement

07 October 2008

Ecumenical movement

Monika Lude (right) said she has reason to hope for Indonesia from the peace-building initiatives of at the grassroots. Photo: Peter Williams/WCC Click here for high resolution

Despite poverty, seeds of hope bud in Indonesia

By Maurice Malanes (*)

07 August 2008

Malethibela Lits'esane, one of many highland dwellers who had to make way for the dams, feels deceived by the authorities. Photo: Christian Johannessen/EWN Click here for high resolution

In the shadow of the dam, communities long for water

By Christian Johannessen (*)

09 June 2008

Food and faith

05 June 2008

General Secretary

Greed-driven global food crisis demands immediate church attention

With an estimated 850 million people suffering from hunger worldwide, nine out of ten of which live in developing countries, "the scandal of hunger demands the immediate attention of the churches", affirmed today in a statement the World Council of Churches (WCC) general secretary Rev. Dr Samuel Kobia.

05 June 2008

The brunt of the crisis has been borne by women and children, like these Luhya women from Nyanza and the Western province, who had to flee the tea farms in the Central province where they used to work. They found shelter at the Tigoni camp near Limuru, in the outskirts of Nairobi, along with some 6,000 other refugees. Photo: Juan Michel/WCC

Kenya: Living Letters allow churches to affirm peace, grasp a complex conflict

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11 February 2008

Dar es Salaam Statement on Linking Poverty, Wealth and Ecology

Statement by the Alternative Globalisation Addressing People and Earth (AGAPE) Consultation on Linking Poverty, Wealth and Ecology: Africa Ecumenical Perspectives
07-09 November 2007, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

09 November 2007

WCC Programmes

African Women's Statement on Poverty, Wealth and Ecology

We, African women of faith, church leaders, theologians and activists, enriched by contributions from our sisters from Asia, Latin America, Europe and North America, have gathered in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania from 05-06 November 2007 to analyse the links between poverty, wealth and ecology in Africa, in deepening study and theological reflection on neoliberal economic globalisation, as part of the Alternative Globalisation addressing People and Earth (AGAPE) process.

06 November 2007

WCC Programmes

The women of the international peasant farmers' organization Via Campesina staging a protest against "terminator" (sterile) seeds (2005)

Seeds of life - looking for alternatives to the dominant agrobusiness model

By Juan Michel (*)

24 January 2007