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faith-based organisations

August 2, 2020

UNICEF releases new guidance for faith communities in times of COVID-19

The guidance advises faith leaders and communities on how to practice faith safely, fight misinformation, and support children and vulnerable populations.
June 21, 2020

Faith-based international development agencies condemn DFID abolition

In a joint statement the charities describe the merger as an act of injustice that will have severe consequences for the world's poorest people.
May 8, 2019

Faith-based organisations launch publication on women’s human rights

The need to strengthen partnerships and broaden alliances to address the growing pushback against women’s human rights emerged as a shared concern at the launch of a joint publication by five faith-based organisations at the Ecumenical Centre in Geneva.
March 18, 2019

Lutherans advocate for women’s access to social protection

Lutheran women and men from around the world are taking part in the 63rd session of the UN’s Commission on the Status of Women, advocating for increased partnerships between governments and faith-based organisations to ensure social protection for women.
February 11, 2019

Lutheran and Muslim organisations combine to build earthqake resilience and sustainable livelihoods in Nepal

Women in Nepal’s Langbu village have gained both privacy and dignity with the public bathing cubicles built collaboratively by the Lutheran World Federation Nepal and Islamic Relief Worldwide, following the earthquake of 2015.
January 29, 2019

Christian and Muslim NGOs call for prayer for world’s ‘worst humanitarian crisis’ in Yemen

Leaders of faith-based international development agencies have united to call on churches and mosques to pray for the desperate humanitarian situation in Yemen this week.
November 30, 2018

Interfaith submission to Talanoa Dialogue calls for respecting Mother Earth

A network of faith-based organisationsbhas released a submission to the Talanoa Dialogue. The title of the submission is: 'Respecting Mother Earth and caring for ecological systems, the most vulnerable communities and all future generations.'
February 5, 2016

Symposium focuses on religion, violence and extremism

the World Council of Churches, along with the General Board of Church and Society of The United Methodist Church and the General Conference of Seventh-Day Adventists has promoted the 2nd Symposium on the Role of Religion and Faith-Based Organisations in International Affairs, under the theme of 'Religion, Violence and Extremism'.