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A new publication, TUMEWEZA: Compendium of Good Practices for Ensuring Disability-Inclusive Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights and Gender-Based Violence Services in United Republic of Tanzania, debuted on 3 December, the International Day of Persons with Disabilities.

Rev. Lynda Susan Katsuno died on 28 August at age 72 after a yearlong struggle with cancer. She was a pioneer of what is now the Ecumenical Disability Advocates Network. 

The latest issue of Current Dialogue, the journal of the World Council of Churches (WCC) on interreligious dialogue and cooperation, takes as its theme “Gender Justice and Interreligious Relations.”

The World Council of Churches (WCC) joins The United Church of Canada and many other churches and peoples across the world who are mourning the death of Omega Chilufya Bula, a beloved justice leader, sister, elder, pioneer, mentor, friend, and colleague.

The World Council of Churches (WCC) has been actively engaged since 2017 with the churches and different religious leaders in Iraq to promote social cohesion as a means towards sustainable peace.

As the World Council of Churches (WCC) focuses on final preparations for the upcoming WCC 11th Assembly in Karlsruhe, WCC moderator Dr Agnes Abuom offered some personal reflections on her leadership role within the WCC, the importance of ecumenical work, the loss of ecumenical luminary Metropolitan Gennadios of Sasima, and the most vital part of her own Christian faith.

In 1895, student leaders from ten North American and European countries met at Vadstena Castle in Sweden to form the World Student Christian Federation (WSCF). Among its founders were John R. Mott (US), Karl Fries (Sweden), Martin Eckhoff (Norway), Luther D. Wishard (US), Johannes Siemsen (Germany), and J. Rutter Williamson (UK). The WSCF was the first international student organization and together with YMCA and YWCA, it is one of the oldest youth movements still in existence. 

Als sich afrikanische Kirchenleiterinnen vergangene Woche zum offiziellen Start einer ökumenischen Initiative von Frauen für die Förderung von Führungswirken und Bildung, der „Ecumenical Women‘s Initiative for Leadership and Learning“, getroffen haben, haben sie große gesellschaftliche Ungerechtigkeit beklagt, Pionierinnen auf vielen Gebieten gefeiert und sich für einen Geist der Solidarität eingesetzt, von dem sie hoffen, dass er weltweit einen Weg in die Zukunft bahnen wird. 

Réunies la semaine dernière pour le colloque inaugural de “initiative œcuménique pour le leadership et l’apprentissage des femmes” , des dirigeantes d’Église africaines ont déploré les graves injustices, célébré les pionnières et cultivé un sentiment de solidarité qui, espèrent-elles, servira d’exemple au monde entier.

Reunidas la semana pasada para inaugurar la “Iniciativa Ecuménica de Mujeres para el Liderazgo y el Aprendizaje”, las dirigentes eclesiales africanas lamentaron las graves injusticias que persisten, celebraron a las pioneras y cultivaron el espíritu solidario que —esperan— abrirá el camino hacia el futuro a nivel mundial”.