WCC WEEKLY: Climate refugees; Youth delegates; Pakistan: church bombings; Christian response to HIV; Paul J. Isaak

20 - 26 September 2013

WCC joins call to protect climate refugees The WCC joins a campaign to achieve recognition and protection for climate refugees. Youth delegates prepare for WCC assembly As part of the preparations for the upcoming WCC assembly in Korea, young delegates to the event recently got together in Geneva to strategize on making youth contributions to the assembly and to the WCC youth programme more meaningful – envisioning a “youth pilgrimage for justice and peace”. Paul Isaak appointed as director of elections in Namibia A long time professor of missiology at the Ecumenical Institute of Bossey, Dr Paul J. Isaak has been appointed as director of elections in Namibia. Sorrow over church bombings in Pakistan The WCC general secretary Rev. Dr Olav Fykse Tveit has expressed “heart-felt sorrow” at the heavy loss of life from the bombings at the All Saints Church in Peshawar calling it the “single worst loss of life among Christians in Pakistan”. Christian values inspire compassion in addressing HIV Churches in Togo have taken on a compelling fight against HIV and AIDS. Sexual minorities, highly vulnerable to the pandemic, remain in dire need of pastoral care that encourages access to HIV prevention facilities, if their lives are to be saved.

Prayer Cycle 22 - 28 September 2013 Belarus, Moldova, Russia, Ukraine » View the prayers 29 September - 5 October 2013 Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia » View the prayers The WCC in social media: Sharing prayers and news on Facebook and Twitter New video Presentation on Korea at Assembly event in Geneva

Upcoming events

WCC Virtual Conference for Youth 12 October 2013 The WCC Virtual Conference for Youth promises to be a direct encounter among young Christians living in many different countries.

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The World Council of Churches promotes Christian unity in faith, witness and service for a just and peaceful world. An ecumenical fellowship of churches founded in 1948, by the end of 2012 the WCC had 345 member churches representing more than 500 million Christians from Protestant, Orthodox, Anglican and other traditions in over 110 countries. The WCC works cooperatively with the Roman Catholic Church. The WCC general secretary is the Rev. Dr Olav Fykse Tveit, from the [Lutheran] Church of Norway.

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