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A working group of the World Council of Churches (WCC) Commission of the Churches on Health and Healing has released a message “A call for cross-generational action on the Mental Health of Youth.”

Le 7 août, une délégation du Conseil œcuménique des Églises (COE) à laquelle participent des partenaires du Conseil des Églises du Moyen-Orient, de l’Alliance ACT et de Caritas Internationalis a rencontré en ligne le personnel du Bureau de liaison du COE à Jérusalem et des accompagnateurs et accompagnatrices œcuméniques (AO) du Programme œcuménique d’accompagnement en Palestine et en Israël (EAPPI).

A delegation led by the World Council of Churches (WCC), accompanied by partners from the Middle East Council of Churches, ACT Alliance, and Caritas Internationalis, met online on 7 August with staff from the WCC Jerusalem Liaison Office and with accompaniers from the WCC Ecumenical Accompaniment Programme in Palestine and Israel.

A World Council of Churches (WCC) prayer on 5 August focused on nuclear disarmament as well as on Cameroon, the Central African Republic, and Equatorial Guinea as part of the Ecumenical Prayer Cycle.

A delegation from the World Council of Churches (WCC) attended the first United Nations Preparatory Committee (Prep Com) session for the Fourth International Conference on Financing for Development (FfD4) held in Addis Ababa 22-26 July. The delegation included Rev. Suzanne Matale and Brian Muyunga, who played key roles in advocating for fair financial systems and youth involvement.

Faith groups in Ethiopia are mobilizing humanitarian support, following a devastating landslide in Gofa Zone in Southern State that left at least 257 people dead, many injured and over 15,000 needing evacuation.

The World Council of Churches (WCC) joined ecumenical partners for an online meeting titled “Assisi Reunion and Next Steps of Feast of Creation.” The event brought together faith leaders to discuss ongoing initiatives and plans for promoting the Feast of Creation, highlighting the critical role of faith communities in environmental stewardship and climate justice.

His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I, the Archbishop of Constantinople, met with the Secretary-General of the Muslim Council of Elders, Judge Mohamed Abdelsalam, in Istanbul, Turkey. The discussion focused on enhancing mutual cooperation in promoting and fostering the values of tolerance, coexistence, and interfaith dialogue, as well as its role in combating hate speech and addressing global challenges.

African interfaith leaders convening in Kigali, Rwanda issued a statement on 19 July calling for forgiving debts, implementing responsible lending and borrowing principles, mainstreaming risk sharing between creditors and debtors, and scaling up access to resources for development in affordable terms.

Faith communities’ crucial role in countering stigma, discrimination, and inequality was affirmed at the launch of a UNAIDS report, The Urgency of Now: AIDS at a Crossroads, in Munich on 22 July.

The World Council of Churches (WCC) participated in the Online Summer Ecumenical School for Dialogue on “Ecology through the Prism of War: Challenges for Ukraine and the World,” organized by the Institute of Ecumenical Studies of the Ukrainian Catholic University from 1-9 July.