Fredrick Nzwili looks at recent global and regional initiatives by the churches to confront the complex political and humanitarian issues underlying current crises around migration - especially in the South.

Thw WCC is renewing efforts to promote global Christian unity and conversation through an 'alliance of alliances' which will acknowledge differences and work through cooperation rather than conformity.

The head of the World Council of Churches will visit churches, faith initiatives and ecumenical bodies in Britain and Ireland in April-May. He will meet both enthusiasm and the struggle of post-Christendom.

An International Ecumenical Peace Convocation will galvanize a range of actions taken by Christians in a major global peacemaking and justice initiative, says the World Council of Churches.

Christians in Pakistan remain fearful this Easter after what they say are false blasphemy accusations and attacks on their communities.

A web-based ecumenical network of Christians from mainline denominations is contacting Congress to seek an end to the war in Iraq and a commitment to justice and peace.

Testifyng before a UN committee, Philippines church leaders have said that human rights abuses in their country are fed by a 'culture of impunity'.

While Desmond Tutu and others argue for African action on Zimbabwe's human rights abuses, the Malawi government has rejected church calls to act.

In the US churches are being encouraged to take practical and theological responsibility for conservation as part of a global initiative in coping with water scarcity.

Keith Clements argues that the Free Churches need to work rigorously for a genuinely ecumenical movement – not one dominated by established Anglican and Catholic interests