The Pacific Conference of Churches (PCC) General Secretary Rev. James Bhagwan, accompanied by PCC staff, unfurled a banner denouncing fossil fuels at sea in Suva, Fiji on 14 October. In conjunction with Greenfaith, he was [...]
More than one million people in the southern Madagascar are in dire need of emergency food and nutrition support due to a catastrophic shortage of food resources. Since September 2020, Madagascar has been trapped in [...]
Applications are open for the Diploma in Eco-Justice Ministries 2021-2022, an online programme initiated by Council for World Mission (CWM) and offered by the United Theological College, Bengaluru, India. Students, professionals, clergy, and people leading [...]
Applications are open for the Diploma in Eco-Justice Ministries 2020-2021, an online programme initiated by Council for World Mission (CWM) and offered by the United Theological College, Bengaluru, India. Students, professionals, clergy, and people leading [...]
The COVID-19 pandemic continues to cast a dark cloud over several countries battling the second wave of COVID-19 infections – a threat lurking around the corner for others. Compounding this problem are issues of inequality [...]
The global reach of COVID-19 revealed our shared human nature and inter-connectivity of our economies, political structures, healthcare systems, food chain production, energy and transportation systems. Thus, it is apt that this year’s theme for [...]
The current Covid-19 pandemic has disrupted every aspect of our lives in a world already plagued with immense human suffering. In response, four organisations – the World Council of Churches (WCC), the World Communion of [...]
A series of two e-conferences held on 17 and 24 April, brought together some 25 participants to reflect on the socio-economic-ecological impacts of the COVID-19 crisis and how it offers the world an opportunity to [...]
On INSiGHT’s first birthday this October, we rejoice and celebrate the generosity of our writers and readers across the world who have made this publication possible with their contributions. As with every issue of INSiGHT, [...]
The Season of Creation is an annual celebration of prayer and action to protect creation, observed from September 1 to October 4. Christians worldwide organise events in their communities ranging from prayer services to litter [...]
Ala, in her womb holds the ancestors, they lived, they loved, they tilled, they danced and told stories. Our father journeyed and settled on her, she became their identity, her forests were bounty for meat, [...]
“The first of May will always be remembered as the day the world grew 11 countries smaller for 11 young individuals that crossed the bridges constructed by the Council of World Mission (CWM) connecting different [...]
O Lord our Lord, how majestic in your name in all the Earth! These words best describe the extent of my experience in Tuvalu, islands of pristine beauty and grandeur. The land, surrounded by the [...]
Photo: The NIFEA Joint Planning Team from CWM, WCRC, WCC and LWF. The 3rd meeting of the Ecumenical Panel on a NIFEA is in progress in New York to connect with the United Nations (UN) [...]
By Research and Capacity Development Team “We need young people who will not compromise their faith for comfort; we need young people who will not destroy their soul for bread; and who will not collude [...]
By Renita Barnes, Training in Mission (TIM) 2017 Participant Throughout the TIM Programme, there has been a recurring theme of listening or recognizing the “unheard voices” in biblical scriptures, in societies, and even within the [...]
The Diploma in Eco-Justice Ministries Program (DEM), a one-year global online program jointly organised by The Council for World Mission (CWM) and The United Theological College (UTC), aims at nourishing, empowering, informing and commissioning persons [...]
“To build life-affirming communities in Oceania there is need for a life-oriented vision. Re-vis[ion]ing demands two tasks: to revise and to re-vision! The need for re-visioning is grounded on the fact that Christianity in general, [...]
The Directors and Trustees of the Council for World Mission (CWM), meeting in Singapore on 2 June 2017, express profound sadness and regret at the President of the United States of America’s decision to withdraw [...]
“Poverty eradication is not going to happen by just handing out charity to the poor, however helpful that is. What is required is a well organised systemic rearrangement of how resources are accumulated and distributed. [...]
Delegates met for the MMF for the Africa Region in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe, co-hosted by the United Congregational Church of Southern Africa (UCCSA) and United Presbyterian Church in Southern Africa (UPCSA). Two outstanding social challenges were [...]
The Mission Secretary for the Pacific, Rev Fei Taulealeausumai initiated a visit to Uniting World (Uniting Church of Australia) to follow through a collaborative work on Climate Change and Gender Justice which begun in March and April [...]
We, the participants of the Asia Pacific Regional Workshop on “Disaster Preparedness and Emergency Response” organised by CWM and PCT with technical assistance of ACT Alliance representing the member churches of CWM: PCI, EKT, NCC, [...]
CWM welcomes the Climate Change negotiations towards a long term deal to limit carbon emissions happening in Paris beginning 30 November 2015. The timing is right and with some 170 countries expressing commitment towards the [...]
Understanding mission in theological education in the changing landscape of the 21st century
An Uncle and his Niece walked on a picturesque beach on one of the many Atolls that make up the Islands of Kiribati in the South Pacific. One can only guess at the many thoughts [...]
