Category - wsf

Churches pledge continued support to Zimbabwe

staff writers — Sat, 17 Mar 2007 00:00:51 +0000

Christian student representatives and Mennonite and Bretheren churches are among those expressing solidarity following this week's arrests and repression by the Mugabe regime

Ecological debt highlighted by churches at WSF

staff writers — Fri, 26 Jan 2007 14:19:12 +0000

Mozambique is "owed an ecological debt by those who constructed and have made profits from the dams of the Zambezi River, that is to say, the Portuguese government and the South African company Eskom," Malawian economist Francis Ng'ambi told participants at a World Council of Churches (WCC) workshop on ecological debt at World Social Forum in Nairobi, Kenya, which ended yesterday.

Lively global church debate about protecting vulnerable populations and the use of force

staff writers — Thu, 25 Jan 2007 13:08:16 +0000

The international community's responsibility to protect endangered populations when their governments fail to do so, and church support for protective measures, has been the subject of lively debate at a World Council of Churches (WCC) workshop at the 20-25 January World Social Forum in Nairobi, Kenya.

Tutu says that the war against terror cannot be won by force

staff writers — Wed, 24 Jan 2007 11:56:47 +0000

The war against terror in the world will "never" be won by force and injustice, and will remain a problem "as long as there are conditions in the world that make people desperate," like dehumanizing poverty, disease and ignorance, Nobel laureate and Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu has told participants at the 2007 World Social Forum (WSF) in Nairobi, Kenya.

Economics and ecology are key, say Christians at WSF

staff writers — Tue, 23 Jan 2007 11:48:16 +0000

At the World Social Forum in Nairobi, Kenya, speakers involved in a workshop organized by the World Council of Churches (WCC) said that wealth, poverty and ecology are strongly linked to each other and to society's commitment to the common good.