Search results

The World Council of Churches, World Communion of Reformed Churches, Lutheran World Federation, World Methodist Council, and Council for World Mission signed a letter to G20 leaders that embraces the theme of the 2024 G20 Leaders’ Summit, “Building a Just World and a Sustainable Planet.” 

A joint multi-year sustainable food systems project between The United Church of Canada, Zimbabwe Council of Churches, and Canadian Foodgrains Bank is increasing food security with community-led solutions.

The World Council of Churches joined other faith-based and civil society organizations in signing a Call to Action on the Global Alliance Against Hunger and Poverty, an open letter to the world’s leaders to call for bold and urgent action to end hunger, malnutrition, and poverty. 

The World Council of Churches (WCC) hosted a webinar addressing global hunger and food insecurity, bringing together faith representatives, nutrition experts, and social advocates who called for urgent systemic reform. The event, part of the WCC’s initiative of Land, Water, and Food Justice of the Living Planet Programme, focused on how hunger disproportionately affects marginalized communities, particularly emphasizing how gender disparities worsen food insecurity.

The World Council of Churches (WCC), along with global faith organizations, raised urgent awareness of the growing hunger crisis through the "Weekend of Prayer and Action Against Hunger." Inspired by Isaiah 58—"to loose the chains of injustice, untie the cords of the yoke, to set the oppressed free...and share our food with the hungry"—this global movement called on faith communities to take spiritual and practical steps to help end hunger.

On 16 October, during World Food Day, the World Council of Churches (WCC) will host an international webinar to address the worsening global food crisis. Featuring voices from the United Nations, civil society, academia, and faith communities, the event will examine the systemic causes of hunger and explore ways to empower women and children, the most vulnerable to food insecurity.

One year after the Hamas attacks on southern Israel, World Council of Churches (WCC) general secretary Rev. Prof. Dr Jerry Pillay called on all WCC member churches and partners, and all people of faith and good will, to pray and act for peace in the Holy Land.

A side event to the 57th UN Human Rights Council entitled “Human Rights in Indonesia,” hosted by the World Council of Churches (WCC) and partner organizations on 1 October, will address the dire human rights situation in West Papua, with ongoing violations that include extra-judicial killings, internal displacement due to armed conflict, restrictions on civil liberties, and a growing number of cases of land grabbing.