The World Council of Churches (WCC) is sharing materials for a “Week of Prayer for Overcoming Racism and Xenophobia” in the week that includes the UN International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination on 21 March and the UN International Day for the Remembrance of Victims of Slavery and the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade on 25 March.
La première réflexion dans le cadre des Semaines pour l'eau 2023 du Réseau œcuménique de l'eau du COE est écrite par Michele Roberts.* Se basant sur des exemples de contamination à grande échelle de l'eau dans plusieurs villes des États-Unis, Michele Roberts arrive à la conclusion que le manque d'accès à l'eau potable aux États-Unis est le résultat d'un racisme systémique.
Originally published in 2021, the 1st reflection of the Seven Weeks for Water 2023 series of the WCC Ecumenical Water Network is written by Michele Roberts*, from the Environmental Justice Health Alliance. In this reflection, the author, based on several instances of large scale water contamination in many cities in the USA, comes to a conclusion that lack of access to clean water in USA is a result of systemic racism.
