justice, peace & creation concerns
ecumenical earth - documents, resources & links
- climate change
- water
- faith, science & technology
- economic globalization & ecology
- caring for life
- bibliography on creation concerns
A discussion paper from the World Council of Churches
10 November 2004
6-11 March, 2004, Tarawa, Kiribati
- Pacific churches' statement on climate change: OTIN TAAI DECLARATION
- Statement on climate change from ecumenical Pacific youth
Address by Dr David Halllmann, WCC Climate Change coordinator at the World Climate Change conference, Moscow, 2003
Prepared by ecumenical development and relief agencies in collaboration with the WCC Climate Change programme
April 28 - May 9, 2003
Summary of the findings on the study on mobility (2002)
A study paper for the member churches of the WCC (1997)
- EWN Newsletter No. 1 (June 2006)
- "Water for Life" - Meeting of the Ecumenical Water Network - Africa in Machakos, Kenya in November 7-11, 2005
- Victoire des mouvements citoyens pour l’eau contre Nestlé, par ATTAC Neuchâtel, avril 2006 (Citizen's water rights movements win victory over Nestlé, Minas Geraïs, Brasil, an account of a 5-year-long struggle) (document in French only)
- Statement on "Water for Life" made by the 2006 WCC Assembly in Porto Alegre, Brazil, February 2006
- Lenten campaign material on water by the United Church of Canada, 2006
- Statement by HH Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew for the WCC working group on water (12 August 2005) + en Portuguès + en español
- Swiss-Brazilian ecumenical water declaration - SEK-FEPS (22 April 2005) + en français + auf Deutsch
- "Water of life" An Invitation to participate in the Ecumenical Water Network (Brochure), January 2006
- "Water of life" An invitation to participate in the Ecumenical Water Network, May 2005
- Water, the source of life : preservation, responsible management and equitable distribution: the ecumenical perspective, Rogate R. Mshana
- Waters for Life: Water as a human right moving up on the churches’ agenda by Martin Robra
- Preserving land, water and air
Liturgical material for 2004 produced by the European Christian Environmental Network (ECEN) - Water as gift and right
Statement of an ecumenical team to the UN Commission on Sustainable Development (CSD12), 19-30 April 2004, New York - 12th session of the UN Commission on Sustainable Development (CSD12),
19-30 April 2004, New York - “Waters of life – Enough for all!”
Christian Conference of Asia (CCA) sermon outline for Environment Sunday in Hong Kong churches, 1 June 2003 -
Water campaigns of
- Brot für die Welt, Germany
- Kairos Canada
- Church World Service, USA
+ CWS worship resources
- Global coalition sounds alarm on synthetic biology, demands oversight and societal debate (press release and open letter 19.05.06)
- WCC general secretary demands action to stop terminator seeds (15.05.05 WCC press release)
- Transforming life, Volume I: Convergent technologies
- "Fearfully and wonderfully made: A policy on human biotechnologies", National Council of Churches USA policy statement
- A Tiny Primer on Nano-scale Technologies… and The Little BANG Theory, ETC Group, January 2005
- Genetics, agriculture and human life - discussion document
- Provisional list of church statements
- GMO food Aid to Africa, memo from APRODEV Working Group on Food Security, Trade and Gender (November 2004)
- Biotechnology and the issues interconnected with and through it
by Tewolde Berhan G. Egziabher and Vandana Shiva - Biotechnology: its challenges to the churches and the world August, 1989
- Ethical considerations on gene technology for food and agriculture in the WCC
by Christine von Weizsäcker - "Food is life. The right to food is not negotiable"
Statement from a South African Council of Churches (SACC) consultation on GMOs cosponsored by the WCC (26-18 May 2004) - "Respect for life"
by Bishop Wolfgang Huber - Whose DNA?
Tonga & Iceland, biotech, ownership and consent
by Lopeti Senituli and Margaret Boyes,
Australasian Bioethics Association Annual Conference, February 2002 - "Patenting biological material - A case of injustice?"
European Ecumenical Commission for Church & Society (EECCS) submission to the European Parliament, 28.03.98 - Indigenous Peoples' statement: "No to patenting of lfe"
- Society, Religion & Technology Project
Church of Scotland - Quaker UN Office, Geneva
- Action group on erosion, technology, and concentration (ETC Group, formerly RAFI)
- Diverse Women for Diversity
Beth Burrows - WTO and Agriculture Network
Rudi Buntzel-Cano
Economic globalization & ecology
- AGAPE: "Alternative Globalization Addressing People and Earth"
- Globalization and climate change, by David Hallmann
- "Land, water, air: People struggling for life in a globalizing economy" - iInternational conference on faith and ecology, Bangalore, Dcember 2001
- European Christian Environmental Network (ECEN) liturgical material for Creation Time 2006, 1 September to the second Sunday of October
- Caring for life: a reflection on the theme of the WCC 9th Assembly, February 2006, Porto Alegre, Brazil
- Rhythm of creation and rhythm of life - prayers and liturgical suggestions for the Creation Time 2005, 1 September to the second Sunday of October, European Christian Environmental Network (ECEN)
- Theologians warn of 'false gospel' on the environment; call Christians to repent of sin (NCCCUSA press release of 14.02.05)
- God's Earth is Sacred: An Open Letter to Church and Society in the United States(NCCCUSA theological statement)
- "Search for better tomorrow"
Report of a consultation on "The Earth is our Home: A religious response to climate change in Asia", July 10-15, 2000, Bangalore, India - Resources on eco-justice in the USA
- ECHOES No. 16, 1999: "The earth as mother"
- Statement from a multi-faith consultation on Indigenous spirituality
Chiang Mai, Thailand, 1-6 October, 2000
Bibliography on creation concerns
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