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Global Prayer mobilizes Christian communities for Season of Creation 2024

On 1 September, the Season of Creation 2024 will begin with a global online prayer event, bringing together Christians from diverse traditions to pray for the wellbeing of creation. This year’s theme, “To hope and act with Creation”, highlights the moral imperative for faith communities to take decisive action against the environmental crisis

Rev. Kolade Fadahunsi, member of the WCC Commission of the Churches on International Affairs from the Methodist Church in Nigeria, speaks at the side-event during the meeting of United Nations Group of Government Experts on Emerging Technologies in the Area of Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems on 27 August. Photo: Ivars Kupcis/WCC
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Faith communities take a stand against lethal autonomous weapons

The value of human life is priceless, and decisions about life or death cannot be delegated to machines, stated a faith-based dialogue on lethal autonomous weapons at the United Nations in Geneva on 27 August