4 June 2019
“Waste is not godly” – a view on waste from Africa
Nicholas Pande is the Project Officer at the Council of Anglican Provinces in Africa, based in Nairobi, Kenya. His remit includes food security, health, environmental conservation and climate change adaptation. In this, our third story focusing on waste in different parts of the world, Nicholas talks about two types of waste of particular concern in […]
31 May 2019
“With myself I started” – a view on waste from the Middle East
“Our world has a problem with waste – and it’s hitting people living in poverty the hardest. Today, two billion people in the world’s poorest countries are living and working among piles of waste – that’s one in four of us. Drinking polluted water. Breathing toxic air. Battling sickness. Each day waste mountains are growing […]
29 May 2019
“These ugly plastic wastes that don’t go away”
“Our world has a problem with waste – and it’s hitting people living in poverty the hardest. Today, two billion people in the world’s poorest countries are living and working among piles of waste – that’s one in four of us. Drinking polluted water. Breathing toxic air. Battling sickness. Each day waste mountains are growing […]
24 May 2019
Ambae: an ongoing story of disaster response and resilience
It is often said that in the aftermath of disasters, long after the aid agencies and TV cameras have left, the Church is still there. This is true, but the reality is even more profound: the Church is there before and during the emergency – as well as after it – part of the community, […]
24 April 2019
“This is the calling of the Church”: Working across borders to eliminate malaria in southern Africa
This World Malaria Day – 25th April – we celebrate the Isdell:Flowers Cross Border Malaria Initiative. This inspirational programme is having remarkable impact eliminating malaria by engaging local churches and communities, including dioceses in the Provinces of Central and Southern Africa. The latest developments in this initiative were discussed at their Round Table in Livingstone, […]
8 April 2019
Safe Migration workshop held by the Women’s Ministry of the Diocese of Jerusalem with the Anglican Alliance
“I believe it’s [been] a great conference. The theme and the message of this conference is the Church’s message, it’s Christ’s message in our world: how to be with those who are unprivileged, with those who are in trouble, with those who are suffering and those who are being oppressed. Those people live around us […]
22 March 2019
Pray with us this World Water Day
On this World Water Day, we hold before God all those in southern Africa who are living with the dire impacts of Cyclone Idai. Heavy rain and flooding have devastated large areas of Mozambique, Zimbabwe and Malawi, leaving many – possibly thousands – dead and many more facing unimaginable loss. The Rt Revd.Carlos Matsinhe, Bishop […]
14 February 2019
People forced from home by climate change: Lambeth Roundtable on Climate Change Migrants and Refugees – with a focus on small island states
“Three of the five nations named by the United Nations as anticipated to be under water by the end of the century are within the Diocese of Polynesia. Scientists stated recently that this human-made tragedy may happen within the next 50 years. The nations are Kiribati, the Marshall Islands and Tuvalu. In Fiji, the headquarters […]
13 January 2019
Exile and Hope – a week spent amongst refugees in Jordan
‘Get up, take the child and his mother, and flee to Egypt, and remain there until I tell you; for Herod is about to search for the child, to destroy him.’ Then Joseph got up, took the child and his mother by night, and went to Egypt, and remained there until the death of Herod. Matthew 2:13-15 In these […]
2 December 2018
Safeguarding creation, renewing the life of the earth: the Katowice climate summit and our Advent hope
“As Anglicans, we are called to safeguard the integrity of creation, and sustain and renew the life of the earth. Three years ago, the global community came together to agree targets to safeguard the world against cataclysmic climate change. Recent scientific studies have shown that those commitments are at risk of being nothing more than warm words […]