WCRC eNews: August 2020: Calls for prayers, support, and actions

eNews: August 2020 GEM School panel calls for prophetic action “We are in the midst of four pandemics, and they are intertwined. The COVID pandemic has revealed more vividly the pandemics of economic injustice, racism, and climate change,” said Cynthia Moe-Lobeda in her presentation to the 2020 GEM School. “This could be the gateway to far more compassionate, just, and ecologically sane ways of structuring our life together in God’s good garden earth.” The opening public panel for the 2020 GEM School, held virtually on 20 August, addressed “the economy of life in a time of inequality, pandemic, and climate change” through presentations by Moe-Lobeda and Allan Boesak. Read more: Deutsch, English, Español, Français, Korean Amazon is at grave risk An online ecumenical conversation entitled “Creation Groans in the Amazon” on 22 August focused on the Amazon forest as a “sacred space for 34 million people suffering from the growth of inequality, land invasion, extractivism, relaxation of environmental laws, criminalization and murder of its defenders, and arson orchestrated by agribusiness—all of it made worse by proselytizing.” Read more: Deutsch, English, Español, Français

WCRC mourns passing of South African church leader. Churches express solidarity with people of Zimbabwe. Hard-hit Presbyterian Church leads peace efforts in Cameroon. Facebook Twitter Website Email WCRC calls for prayer and support for Beirut after explosion. WCRC urges prayer and support for Christian Dalits in India.

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