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Prayer focuses on overcoming hunger

A World Council of Churches (WCC) morning staff prayer focused on the Weekend of Prayer and Action Against Hunger, as well as the Ecumenical Prayer Cycle for the churches and people of Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, and Belize.

19 October 2023
Feature story
Food distribution

Voces latinoamericanas comparten las heridas y se comprometen a caminar juntas hacia la 11ª Asamblea del CMI

La reunión regional en línea del 10 de febrero con los representantes de América Latina que asistían a la reunión del Comité Central del Consejo Mundial de Iglesias (CMI) brindó la oportunidad de compartir las preocupaciones comunes y puso de manifiesto el deseo común de caminar juntos hacia la 11ª Asamblea del CMI que se celebrará más tarde este año.

24 February 2022
Feature story
Berta Caceres

EWN members stand in solidarity with water and land defenders

Berta Caceres was a well-known land rights defender who led a battle against a large dam on ancestral lands in Honduras. She was shot to death at her home in 2016. Recently the former president of the internationally financed dam company was found guilty over the assassination. Members of the WCC-Ecumenical Water Network (EWN) are worried that violence against activists who are taking a stand against the overexploitation of natural resources, like land and water, is on the rise. Unlike the murder of Berta Caceres, most attacks and killings go unpunished.

21 September 2021
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La pandemia golpea a las comunidades vulnerables y aumenta los retos sociales en una América Latina aquejada de problemas políticos

La democracia en peligro, el aumento de los casos de violencia contra las mujeres y las amenazas para el futuro de los niños. Una reunión regional con representantes de las iglesias de América Latina durante la reunión de 2021 del Comité Central del Consejo Mundial de Iglesias (CMI) mostró que los problemas anteriores a la pandemia golpean ahora con más fuerza a las comunidades vulnerables.

26 June 2021
Blog post
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Indigenous peoples and the pandemic in the land of inequalities

476 million indigenous people live around the world, of which 11.5% live in our Latin American region. In these years that we are going from the COVID 19 pandemic in our territories (indigenous or tribal at the Latin American level), the presence of many extractive companies, mainly uranium and lithium, has increased, land traffickers and among other monoculture companies with fires for the cultivation of oil palm, logging, putting vulnerable peoples at greater risk than what is already experienced.

04 June 2021
Interview
Pedro Arrojo-Agudo

Defending the ‘blue soul of life’

Pedro Arrojo-Agudo, from Spain, is the United Nations (UN) special rapporteur on the human rights to safe drinking water and sanitation. In this interview with WCC News, he talks about the significance of these human rights, his plans and priorities for his mandate, and to that end, the role of faith, spirituality and ethics. 

08 April 2021
Photo essay
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No room at the inn

Thousands of people hit by two hurricanes that lashed Honduras in November have spent Christmas in makeshift street shelters.  Local churches responded with what they have, providing shelterfood and clothing. But their needs are great and the resources few. These photographs are from Sean Hawkey. He has reported on the double disaster for the World Council of Churches introducing us to some of the people living this disaster.

26 December 2020
Interview
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As repeat hurricanes threaten, churches offer vital services in Nicaragua, Honduras

Two weeks after Hurricane Eta struck, Nicaragua and Honduras are now bracing for another massive storm, Hurricane Iota. Eta killed at least 120 people in flash floods and mudslides. By 15 November, ahead of Iota’s landfall, some 63,500 people had been evacuated in northern Honduras, and 1,500 people in Nicaragua had been moved from low-lying areas of the country's northeast. Carlos Rauda, a regional officer with ACT Alliance, offers a glimpse of this unfolding situation, and the important role of churches.

17 November 2020