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The Evangelical Lutheran Church in Northern Germany and the Centre for Global Ministries and Ecumenical Relations published a set of reflections leading toward a digital “Justice Sunday” worship service on 21 March.

Leaders of the ecumenical movement in Africa, religious leaders, Christians, and people of good will are mourning Arthur Ndengerio Shoo, a long-serving ecumenical leader, who died on 26 February.

El lanzamiento, el 2 de diciembre, de una nueva publicación, El redescubrimiento de la misión: la transformación de los discípulos, de Ken Ross, despertó el interés de los participantes en el seminario web, deseosos de indagar en una interpretación más profunda del Llamado de Arusha al discipulado.

Le lancement d’une nouvelle publication le 2 décembre, Mission Rediscovered: Transforming Disciples, («Redécouvrir la mission: transformer les disciples», non traduit) de Ken Ross, a attisé l’intérêt des participant-e-s au webinaire aspirant à approfondir leur interprétation de L’appel d’Arusha à vivre en disciples.

Die am 2. Dezember erschienene neue Publikation auf Englisch, Mission Rediscovered: Transforming Disciples, (etwa: Mission neu entdeckt: verändernde Nachfolge) von Ken Ross weckte das Interesse von Webinar-Teilnehmenden, die sich eingehender mit dem Aufruf von Arusha zur Nachfolge befassen wollen.

The 2 December debut of a new publication, Mission Rediscovered: Transforming Disciples, by Ken Ross, drew the interest of webinar participants eager to interpret more deeply the Arusha Call to Discipleship

A book by Ken Ross, Mission Rediscovered: Transforming Disciples, will be released during a webinar on 2 December 2020. A commentary on the Arusha Call to Discipleship, the publication unpacks the meaning of the 12-part summons of the Arusha Call. With an up-to-date theological and missiological view on the Arusha Call, the book also offers a personal reflection on the state of a world desperately in need of change and transformation.

Amid growing concerns over runaway corruption and public debt in Africa, the All Africa Conference of Churches on 21 September launched a policy brief on the challenges, saying the two were now inseparable in the continent.

Conflict has ingrained itself in the people of Mozambique for many decades from the days of Portuguese colonial rule, to the ensuing civil war which only ended this century, and now Daesh along with the unseen enemy of COVID-19. So, the churches have their hands full as peacemakers.

O povo de Moçambique enfrenta constantes conflitos há séculos, desde os tempos do domínio colonial português e a guerra civil que o seguiu (que só terminou neste século), e agora com o Daesh e, ao mesmo tempo, o inimigo invisível do COVID-19. Não é de se espantar, portanto, que as igrejas do país tenham sempre tido muitíssimo a fazer como pacificadoras locais.

The World Council of Churches (WCC) is mourning the loss of the former president of Tanzania, Benjamin Mkapa. He was also an advocate for ecumenical work, and publicly spoke in support of the WCC Decade to Overcome Violence and other initiatives for justice.

The World Council of Churches (WCC) is mourning the death of Rev. Prof. Dr Mary-Anne Plaatjies van Huffel, a South African pastor and academic who was currently serving as the WCC president from Africa since 2013. She passed away on 19 May.

El Consejo Mundial de Iglesias (CMI) está de luto por el fallecimiento de la Rev. Prof.ª Dra. Mary-Anne Plaatjies van Huffel, pastora y académica sudafricana quien, desde 2013, ocupaba el puesto de presidenta del CMI para África. La Rev. Prof.ª Dra. Mary-Anne Plaatjies van Huffel falleció el pasado 19 de mayo.

Frontline actions by African faith communities in mitigating against the novel coronavirus are being welcomed as timely, as groups move to support people left vulnerable by the pandemic.