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The WCC Executive Committee has expressed deep concern about the alarming increase in threats to human security in Latin America. The committee has called for renewed efforts by churches to ensure peaceful and just societies.

By Marcelo Schneider (*)

“Sixteen years after the signing of the peace accord in 1996, Guatemala is still struggling to overcome wide ranging issues that put the economic, political and social wellbeing of the country at risk,” noted a World Council of Churches (WCC) delegation visiting Guatemala from 27 to 29 November.

A World Council of Churches (WCC) consultation on peace and human security in Latin America has adopted a communiqué demanding protection mechanisms that insure peace and human security in Latin America.

“Long years of civil war and import of weapons since the 1980s have created a difficult situation in Latin America, where it is challenging to prevent proliferation of arms”, stated Prof. Benjamin Cortes Marchena at a World Council of Churches (WCC) consultation in Antigua, Guatemala. Â

More than thirty participants from different Latin American countries will be meeting in Antigua, Guatemala for a regional consultation reflecting on peace and human security in Latin America.

With the help of participants from several regions of the world a World Council of Churches (WCC) consultation recently looked at Christian self-understanding in the context of indigenous spiritual traditions.

por Theodore Gill (*)

by Theodore Gill (*)

Tuvalu, nación polinesia formada por varias islas en el Océano Pacífico entre Hawai y Australia, alberga más de 11.000 habitantes, cuya existencia, que ha estado ligada al océano y a su generosidad, se ve actualmente amenazada por la subida del nivel del mar.

Tuvalu, a Polynesian island nation in the Pacific Ocean between Hawaii and Australia, is home to more than 11,000 people, whose very existence, which at one time was tied to the ocean and its bounty, is now threatened by rising ocean water levels.

Con las voces de Martin Luther King III y la pastora luterana alemana Dra. Margot Kässmann entre otros, la Convocatoria Ecuménica Internacional por la Paz (CEIP) dará comienzo la próxima semana. Este importante acontecimiento ecuménico organizado por el Consejo Mundial de Iglesias (CMI) tendrá lugar en la Universidad de las Indias Occidentales en Kingston, Jamaica.

With the voices of speakers including Martin Luther King III and German Lutheran pastor Dr Margot Kässmann, the International Ecumenical Peace Convocation (IEPC) will begin next week. This major ecumenical event organized by the World Council of Churches (WCC) is to take place at the University of the West Indies (UWI) in Kingston, Jamaica.