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Stockholm+50 Interfaith Statement - “Faith Values and Reach - Contribution to Environmental Policy”

03 June 2022

Ecumenical movement

Creation justice focus of hybrid event at Stockholm +50

The World Council of Churches and International Partnership on Religion and Sustainable Development (PaRD) are co-hosting a hybrid event on 2 June at Stockholm+50. Exploring the theme “Climate Action and Water for Life towards Creation Justice!” the event will reflect on the current scenario of the climate emergency and global water crisis which are interconnected and impact each other as well as the sustainability of the earth.

01 June 2022

Feature story

As Horn of Africa drought bites, church leader highlights children’s malnutrition

In drought-stricken regions in eastern Africa, churches and church congregations continue to pray for rain, as the weather conditions leave millions of people without food, water and pasture for their animals.

20 May 2022

Event

WCC webinar: Making menstruation a normal fact of life by 2030

30 May 2022

28 May (Saturday) is Menstrual Hygiene Day. On 30 May, 2022 (Monday), the WCC Ecumenical Water Network (EWN) and the Just Community of Women and Men (JCWM) along with their partner Norwegian Church Aid (NCA) invite you to a webinar to mark this important day.

WCC delegation at the World Social Forum highlights the links between water, food and climate change

At the recently concluded World Social Forum in Mexico City, a delegation from the World Council of Churches (WCC) reflected on ecological justice by addressing the nexus between water, food and climate change.

11 May 2022

WCC Ecumenical Water Network newsletter, March/April 2022

Together for Water - Newsletter of the WCC Ecumenical Water Network

03 May 2022

Groundwater is a common good

28 April 2022

Message from the waters of Brazil to the waters of the world

Ecumenical Water Network-Brazil (REDA-Brazil) Stands in Solidarity with #FAME 2022.

28 April 2022

Council of Churches in Sierra Leone, Statement on World Water Day 2022

Today March 22 marks World Water Day – a day set aside to focus on the importance of water to everything in the world. This day was set aside by the United Nations in 1993.

27 April 2022

Interview

protests over the depletion and contamination of groundwater resources famously led to the closing of a Coca-Cola factory in the village of Plachimada, India, in 2005.

Groundwater is “a political question”

In many regions, groundwater is being extracted faster than it can be replenished. Groundwater pollution from raw material extraction, industry, private households, and agriculture is also increasing. This year’s UN’s World Water Day focused on groundwater, urging to make “the invisible visible.” A new publication by Brot für die Welt (Bread for the World, Germany), a member of the WCC Ecumenical Water Network, takes up this call and demands the better protection and fairer use of this vital resource. WCC news talked to co-author Dr Ingrid Jacobsen about the social and political dimension of groundwater.

27 April 2022

Feature story

Anglican church of Christ the King in Sophiatown, Johannesburg, South Africa, Photo: Ivars Kupcis/WCC

South African churches provide relief in KwaZulu Natal flood disaster

Churches in South Africa are actively responding to the flood disaster in KwaZulu Natal, in which at least 440 people have died. The floods—the strongest to hit the province in recent times—were triggered following a week of heavy rainfall in the province bordering the Indian Ocean in the east of the country.

20 April 2022

Webinar offered time to reflect on Seven Weeks for Water

During a 12 April webinar, authors of the biblical reflections in this year’s “Seven Weeks for Water” Lenten campaign came together with church leaders to reflect on the campaign and draw inspiration for the coming year.

13 April 2022

Sept semaines pour l’eau 2022, semaine 7 : « Pèlerinage pour la justice de l’eau en Europe », par Isabel Apawo Phiri

La septième et dernière réflexion des Sept semaines pour l’eau 2022 du Réseau œcuménique de l’eau du COE est rédigée par Isabel Apawo Phiri*. Dans la réflexion suivante, en tant que référente du personnel pour Le Pèlerinage de justice et de paix du COE, elle fait une analyse convaincante de la façon dont le pèlerinage du COE et le Pèlerinage pour la justice de l’eau sont liés, se complètent et se renforcent mutuellement, en faisant particulièrement référence à l’Europe.

12 April 2022

Seven Weeks for Water 2022, week 7: “Pilgrimage of water justice in Europe,” by Prof. Dr Isabel Apawo Phiri

The seventh and final reflection of the Seven Weeks for Water 2022 of the WCC’s Ecumenical Water Network is written by Prof. Dr Isabel Apawo Phiri*. In the following reflection she, being the staff focal point of WCC’s Pilgrimage of Justice and Peace, makes a compelling analysis of how the WCC pilgrimage and the pilgrimage of water justice inter-relate, complement, and strengthen each other, with a particular reference to Europe.

11 April 2022

On World Health Day, Christian Conference of Asia calls for “healthy, sustainable, and equitable society”

On World Health Day, observed 7 April, the Christian Conference of Asia published a statement under the theme “Our Planet, Our Health” that calls for equating our health and wellbeing with our environment.

07 April 2022

Feature story

WCC Ecumenical Water Network offers critical insight, asking “Is the World Water Forum a solution to the global water crisis?”

To coincide with the 9th World Water Forum—and to call attention to that platform as too exclusive—the World Council of Churches Ecumenical Water Network (WCC-EWN) participated in an Alternative World Water Forum which stands in opposition to the capitalistic globalization of water and sanitation services.

06 April 2022

Sept semaines pour l'eau 2022, semaine 6 « L'eau est un don de Dieu, un bien commun et un droit de l'homme » par Dinesh Suna

La sixième réflexion des Sept semaines pour l’eau 2022 du Réseau œcuménique de l’eau du COE est rédigée par Dinesh Suna.* Dans la réflexion qui suit, il donne un aperçu historique du ministère de la justice de l'eau du COE et réaffirme que l'eau est un don de Dieu, un bien commun et un droit de l'homme. S'inspirant d'Ésaïe, il appelle les Églises à devenir des communautés bleues et à refuser la privatisation de l'eau et l'eau en bouteille.

06 April 2022

Seven Weeks for Water 2022, week 6 “Water is a gift of God, a common good and a human right” by Dinesh Suna

The sixth reflection of the Seven Weeks for Water 2022 of the WCC’s Ecumenical Water Network is written by Dinesh Suna.* In the following reflection , he gives a historical background of the WCC's water justice ministry and reaffirms that water is a gift of God, a common good and human right. Taking the inspiration from Isaiah, he calls the churches to become blue communities and say no to privatisation of water and to bottled water.

04 April 2022