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Anna Muinonen with children at Nzulo Camp © Fredrick Nzwili/WCC Click here for high resolution

Congolese churches doing "an enormous job" - Interview with Anna Muinonen

By Fredrick Nzwili (*)

30 July 2009

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

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

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

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

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

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

Bible study

Seven Weeks for Water 2008, week 2: "The waters that never fail", by Rev. Jane Stranz

In Isaiah's vision of justice and sharing, the promise is '"you shall be like a watered garden ... whose waters never fail." It is our Lenten hope that the waters of the garden of the earth will never fail for any of God\'s creatures.

02 April 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

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

Letter

Partnerships between churches and people living with HIV/AIDS organizations

Guidelines (working document) 2005

01 January 2005

Ecumenical movement

Working with people living with HIV/AIDS organizations

This document has been written to accompany World Council of Churches, Partnerships between Churches and People Living with HIV/AIDS Organizations: Guidelines, (2005). Whereas the partnership document explores the question of why churches should work with People Living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA) organizations and networks, this document has a focus on how churches may work with PLWHA organizations and networks. For example: What issues do you need to think about? What are the needs of PLWHA? How should you interact PLWHA? It is hoped that this document of practical suggestions will assist in helping make partnerships functional and effective.

01 January 2005

Working with people living with HIV/AIDS organizations

01 January 2005

R. Mshana on current financial system

09 January 2004

Country profile: Armenia

"Church & country profiles" for several countries have been developed by the WCC Europe desk ahead of the 2006 assembly. Please note that these profiles are intended to serve as general references, and do not represent official policy positions of the World Council of Churches. The WCC strives to maintain accuracy in its information, but cannot be responsible for any mistakes or outdated information.

01 January 2004

Farmers, Food and Trade

During the week preceding the forthcoming Special Session of the World Trade Organization (WTO) on the Draft Review of the Agreement on Agriculture, a

17 February 2003

Globalization and climate change

01 January 2002