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 [...]
In a letter to the G20 finance ministers before the International Tax Symposium on 9 July, organisations representing a half billion Christians worldwide urged that it has never been more urgent and necessary to fix [...]
Addressing the upcoming G20 International Taxation Symposium, a webinar brought together economists, activists, and church representatives to explore how tax justice and reparations—as called for in the ecumenical Zacchaeus Tax (ZacTax) campaign—could help the world [...]
At its Annual Members’ Meeting, held electronically on 15-17 June 2021, Council for World Mission (CWM) reflected on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on peoples and countries around the world, with particular attention given [...]
An ecumenical webinar will explore using the global tax system as a tool to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic and to repair systemic issues such as rising socio-economic inequality and runaway climate change. Held on [...]
We salute you on this International Women’s Day (IWD), which is celebrated each year on March 8 since the early 1900s, to shine the spotlight on women and their rights. The theme of 2021 is [...]
The COVID-19 pandemic continues to wreak havoc on many lives around the world, and while it is too early to comprehend the full impact of the pandemic, it is evident that this crisis is deepening [...]
A panel of experts of different faiths spoke on debt cancellation and reparations as tools for promoting justice, sustainability and life-affirming economies in the third 2020 Ecumenical School on Governance, Economics and Management public webinar [...]
Tax justice, including reforming the current tax systems, enacting jubilee, and paying reparations, was the focus of the second 2020 Ecumenical School on Governance, Economics, and Management (GEM School) public webinar. Students and guests were [...]
The third public webinar for GEM School 2020 will focus on debt cancellation and reparations as tools for promoting justice, sustainability and life-affirming economies. The webinar will be held on 2 October, Friday, 14:00-15:30 (CEST). [...]
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 [...]
A public online webinar “In a Time of Pandemic, Inequality, and Climate Change: Zacchaeus Tax (ZacTax) and Jubilee Now!” will be held on Monday 14 September, where panellists will explore how taxation, reparations and debt [...]
“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 [...]
13 July 2020 The Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors of the Group of 20 (G20) Your Excellencies: Our organisations, the World Council of Churches (WCC), World Communion of Reformed Churches (WCRC), Lutheran World Federation [...]
GEM School will be held virtually this year, with a public webinar on "Economy of life in a time of inequality, pandemic, and climate change". Register to hear from our panelists Cynthia Moe-Lobeda and Allan [...]
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 [...]
A new year breaks with fresh opportunities and possibilities for those who are prepared to imagine a future, transformed by the grace of God, which compels us to acknowledge and repent of our wrong and [...]
Current and future church leaders are invited to apply for the Ecumenical School on Governance, Economics and Management (GEM School) for an Economy of Life from 17 – 28 August 2020, tentatively to be held [...]
Applications are open for Building Life-Affirming Communities: Face To Face with the many poor and the many faiths in Asia. This will be held on 30 March to 10 May 2020 and conducted at the India Peace Centre in Nagpur, India. CWM’s six-week Face to Face Programme [...]
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, [...]
CWM, in partnership with WCC and WCRC, launched the Zacchaeus Tax campaign as a side event at the United Nations (UN) High-level Political Forum on the Sustainable Development Goals in New York recently. This global [...]
Twenty current and future church leaders will be selected to attend the Ecumenical School on Governance, Economics and Management (GEM) for an Economy of Life in Jakarta, Indonesia next August. Jointly initiated by Council for [...]
Shaking up the international financial architecture and infrastructure. This was the clarion call sounded by CWM, together with the World Council of Churches, World Communion of Reformed Churches and the Lutheran World Federation on the [...]
New York, NY, April 22 - The 3rd meeting of the Ecumenical Panel on a New International Financial and Economic Architecture (NIFEA) took place on April 21 and 22, 2018 in New York to coincide [...]
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) [...]
Thirty-five representatives from member-churches of Council for World Mission’s (CWM) Pacific Region attended the second NIFEA Pacific colloquium held from 19 to 22nd March, 2018 at Novotel Hotel in Nadi, Fiji. The colloquium started with [...]
CWM has been engaging our member churches to work on a New International Financial and Economic Architecture (NIFEA) through regional colloquia for the past few years. This will be the first year CWM is involved [...]
We are delighted to inform you that we are once again accepting applications for the Building Life-Affirming Communities: Face To Face with the many poor and the many faiths in Asia. This will be held on 12 February to 24 [...]
By CWM Europe office The European and Caribbean regions of CWM met in Reading UK last week for the second NIFEA colloquium to share and develop ideas for actions in the next phase of the [...]
The first ever CWM Caribbean Members’ Mission Forum began with a celebration of CWM’s 40th anniversary, and was held 26-29 March 2017 in Kingston, Jamaica. Past participants, former trustees or directors met to recall their [...]
Council for World Mission (CWM)’s Europe and Caribbean representatives met at the Colloquium for a New International Financial and Economic Architecture (NIFEA) - the first in a series of three, on the Economy of Life, [...]
“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. [...]
The CWM) Training in Mission (TIM) participants arrived in Fiji from Taiwan on 1 July 2016 to continue their mission training. Fiji, is a small Pacific island country famed for being a tourist destination. Like [...]
“We dare to claim that there is need to address the economic globalisation, marked by unregulated free market enterprise, systems designed to maintain the social pyramid requiring the majority to serve the minority. We acknowledge [...]
03 October to 16 November, 2015 Location: India The Council for World Mission’s (CWM) Face to Face Programme aims to invite the youth participants in cultural, social, theological and contextual realities for them to [...]
Bringing together more than 30 educators and activists in the field of education from all over the world and from various faiths, the Oikotree Workshop on Transformative Education took place at the Matanzas Theological Seminary [...]
