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Global Day of Prayer to End Famine

10 June 2018

The Global Day of Prayer to End Famine hopes to unite ecumenical partners and faith communities all over the world as a prayerful and spiritual movement to: encourage prayer, reflection and action with information and suggestions; bring awareness regarding famine’s impact on the most vulnerable children and families and to help address its root causes; connect with church-related and other humanitarian organizations that are currently working to bring immediate relief and positive long-term change so children and families can live out God’s aspiration for a dignified, peaceful and violence-free future; help communities and congregations to uphold each other in prayer and support, by sharing experiences, challenge and solutions.

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Dr Rebecca Dali receiving the Humanitarian Award from the Sergio Vieira de Mello Foundation at the United Nations in Geneva. Photo: Ivars Kupcis/WCC

Rebecca Dali: My faith in God motivates me every second

During World Humanitarian Day on 21 August, Dr Rebecca Samuel Dali received the 2017 Humanitarian Award from the Sergio Vieira de Mello Foundation at the United Nations office in Geneva in recognition of her courageous efforts in reintegration of women abducted by the Boko Haram into their local communities in the northern Nigeria. In her visit to the Ecumenical Centre, Dali shares the source of her courage and commitment to help the most vulnerable.

24 August 2017
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A young girl plays on a terrace outside the sanctuary of St. Peter and Paul Ancient Assyrian Church of the East in Dohuk, Iraq. She and her family fled from Qaraqosh on the Nineveh plain south of Mosul as ISIS forces advanced. © WCC/Gregg Brekke

Displaced Iraqis appeal for security and tolerance

Displaced by the armed offensive of the so-called Islamic State in Iraq and Syria and their brutal purge of Yazidis and Christians, along with Sufi, Shiite and Sunni Muslims, from northern Iraq, members of these communities have begun to speak out about their experiences, their longing for security, and their hopes for the future.

17 September 2014
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Ibrahim Osman Mohammed (left) and his cousin Hassan Keyr Isaac from the Middle Juba region of Somalia cross a remote section of eastern Kenya near the Somali border with a cart carrying what is left of their families' belongings. © Paul Jeffrey/ACT

WCC general secretary calls for urgent action in the Horn of Africa

In comments to staff of the World Council of Churches (WCC) on 18 August, the Rev. Dr Olav Fykse Tveit expressed alarm at the “blocking and hindering of the food supply in famine-struck Somalia, with the effect that more and more people are dying. This interference with humanitarian aid is inhumane and must be strongly condemned.”

18 August 2011