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In the latest World Council of Churches (WCC) podcast, recorded just weeks after COP30 concluded in Belém, Brazil, Athena Peralta, director of the WCC Commission on Climate Justice and Sustainable Development, reflects on the conference's mixed outcomes. While COP30 delivered real progress on adaptation finance and just transition mechanisms, it fell disappointingly short on fossil-fuel phase-out. In conversation with WCC communications, Peralta shares what faith communities achieved at the UN climate conference, where governments failed to meet the urgency of the moment, and how churches can engage in the newly launched Ecumenical Decade of Climate Justice Action.

Bishop Kortu K. Brown, from the Apostolic Pentecostal Church and Church Aid, Inc., in Liberia reflects below on why ending statelessness is the responsibility of churches, and some actions they can take in that direction. Through Church Aid, Inc., and its partners, Brown has led a drive against statelessness that has resulted in 20,000 children in Liberia obtaining birth certificates. Brown is the immediate past president of the Liberia Council of Churches, a position he held from 2017-2022. He is also a past president of the Interreligious Council of Liberia, and former head of the Action by Churches Together - ACT Liberia Chapter. 

Study Group 3, co-convened by Rev. Preb. Dr Isabelle Hamley, focuses on exploring questions of conflict, violence, justice, peace and reconciliation. Below, they offer an overview of their recent work.