South Africa’s COVID-19 caseload is edging closer to three million after 2 273 new infections were recorded in the past 24 hours.
According to the National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD), this pushes the total number of laboratory-confirmed cases to 2 963 679.
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The World Council of Churches (WCC) is publishing the first of a series of Bible studies that lead up to the WCC 11th Assembly in 2022 in Karlsruhe, Germany.
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Inter-Faith leaders sign a pledge to upscale interventions in order to end HIV and TB as public health threats by 2030.Â
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While South Africa will remain on the Coronavirus Alert Level 1, President Cyril Ramaphosa has called on citizens who have not vaccinated to do so immediately.
“In taking the decision not to impose further restrictions at this stage, we considered the fact that when we encountered previous waves of infection, vaccines were not widely available and far fewer people were vaccinated,” the President said on Sunday.
Addressing the nation on developments in the country’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the President encouraged every person who has not been vaccinated to go to their nearest vaccination station without delay.
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The past weekend our Minister in Synodical Service and Task Team Manager for Congregational Witness, Rev. Stephen Pedro, kicked off the accompaniment process of faith-discerning with the leadership of URCSA Victoria West.
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“As mission belongs to the being of the church, the church cannot, and must not, avoid its missionary engagement with the world,” editor Risto Jukko writes in his introduction to the issue of the World Council of Churches (WCC) journal International Review of Mission focuses on the relationship between mission and unity..
“Churches cannot escape this engagement, but they cannot fulfil it in isolation; they need one another to do that, thus emphasizing the need for authentic, credible, and common witness.”
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“Kibeho: Listen My Children” is the title of an EWTN Original production docudrama which premiers at 05:00 SA time on Thursday, November 25, with encores at 20:30 on Sunday, November 28, and 6:00 on Monday, November 29.
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The Local Ecumenical Action Network (LEANs) was birthed from the SACC COVID-19 pastoral plan to organise functional local public ministry structures that address crisis relief, pastoral care that focuses on the vulnerable and the anxieties of families of frontline workers
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“The new United Nations, founded in 1945, bore the hallmarks of the aspirations of the fellowship of churches that it should become an instrument of the world’s peoples, not only of the world’s powers” reads the statement.
“CCIA was created to serve as an organ in formulating the Christian mind on world issues and bringing that mind effectively to bear upon such issues, particularly in relationship with the United Nations and the new post-war system of international governance.”
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The main task of the Commission has been helping the Christian community in all its broadness to “formulate the Christian mind on world issues and bringing that mind effectively to bear upon such issues“ in order to avoid conflict and war, said CCIA moderator Rev. Frank Chikane.
The WCC CCIA’s 58th meeting took place for the first time in a hybrid form – part of the commission met physically in Johannesburg, South Africa, hosted by the South African Council of Churches, while others joined the meeting online.
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