{"id":386897,"date":"2022-08-23T15:30:42","date_gmt":"2022-08-23T12:30:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/?p=386897"},"modified":"2022-08-23T18:21:23","modified_gmt":"2022-08-23T15:21:23","slug":"world-council-of-churches-looks-to-mobilize-immediate-action-for-climate-justice-at-its-assembly-in-karlsruhe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/world-council-of-churches-looks-to-mobilize-immediate-action-for-climate-justice-at-its-assembly-in-karlsruhe\/","title":{"rendered":"World Council of Churches looks to mobilize immediate action for climate justice at its assembly in Karlsruhe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The World Council of Churches (WCC) is looking to its assembly at the end of August in Karlsruhe to raise up the issue of climate justice and underline the need to care for the creation, says the WCC<span lang=\"AR-SA\" xml:lang=\"AR-SA\">\u2019<\/span>s acting general secretary, Rev. Prof. Dr Ioan Sauca.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"AR-SA\" xml:lang=\"AR-SA\">\u201c<\/span>If we don&#8217;t change our behaviour, in 50 years our planet will be uninhabitable,\u201d said Sauca on 12 August in Geneva, where the WCC has its offices.<\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"AR-SA\" xml:lang=\"AR-SA\">\u201c<\/span>We must act now\u201d, he said in an interview for the WCC journal.<\/p>\n<p>More than 4,500 participants are expected at the WCC<span lang=\"AR-SA\" xml:lang=\"AR-SA\">\u2019<\/span>s 11th Assembly, which opens in Karlsruhe on August 31st and runs until September 8 around the theme <span lang=\"AR-SA\" xml:lang=\"AR-SA\">\u201c<\/span>Christ<span lang=\"AR-SA\" xml:lang=\"AR-SA\">\u2019<\/span>s love moves the world to reconciliation and unity.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>At the assembly, Sauca said,\u00a0<span lang=\"AR-SA\" xml:lang=\"AR-SA\">\u201c<\/span>leaders will be asked to act now to care for our common planet, the Earth.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The first thematic plenary of the gathering will take place on 1 September, which is marked by churches worldwide as the Day of Creation.<\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"AR-SA\" xml:lang=\"AR-SA\">\u201c<\/span>The emphasis on creation will be very much highlighted in that first plenary,\u201d said Sauca.\u00a0<span lang=\"AR-SA\" xml:lang=\"AR-SA\">\u201c<\/span>It is a theological issue. God&#8217;s plan in Christ was also the reconciliation and healing of the whole creation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He recalled how the WCC has long been at the forefront of efforts to place the issue of climate justice on the world<span lang=\"AR-SA\" xml:lang=\"AR-SA\">\u2019<\/span>s agenda.<\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"AR-SA\" xml:lang=\"AR-SA\">\u201c<\/span>The WCC deals with creation not as a fashionable issue of our time, but as a basic element of its very identity,\u201d said Sauca.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/WwDWxboiIpg\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Photo source: alc-noticias.net<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The World Council of Churches (WCC) is looking to its assembly at the end of August in Karlsruhe to raise up the issue of climate justice and underline the need to care for the creation, says the WCC\u2019s acting general secretary, Rev. 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