WEA Global Advocacy Newsletter, September 2023
Dear friends, WEA’s UN teams work with WEA members to advance human rights, religious freedom and creation care through the United Nations. The following newsletter
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WEA to host UN side event on human rights crisis in Manipur, India
For more information contact Markus Hofer, [email protected] The World Evangelical Alliance, on behalf of a coalition of NGOs, will host a United Nations Human Rights Council
African Church Leaders Appeal for PEPFAR Reauthorization
Contact: [email protected] More than 350 African church leaders have appealed to Congress for the swift reauthorization of the President’s Emergency Program for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR),
Responding to violence against minorities in Pakistan
by Aslam Nazik, Evangelical Alliance of Pakistan Pakistan has a long history of religious violence. In the last few decades, violence against religious minorities and
WEA Leaders Applaud Salvation Army’s New Leadership, Welcome Renewed Spiritual Commitment
WEA Secretary General Thomas Schirrmacher and Global Ambassador Efraim Tendero (right) with Bronwyn and Lyndon Buckingham, the Salvation Army’s new international leaders. World Evangelical Alliance
Quran Burnings Should Not be Banned, but Europeans Need to “Rediscover That Some Things are Actually Sacred”
By Evangelical Focus In August, Sweden raised its terror threat alert level to “high” following a series of Quran burnings that have drawn widespread criticism in Muslim-majority
WEA Secretary General Visits Argentina
Translated from Spanish-language reports by ACIERA (the evangelical alliance of Argentina) and the Alianza Evangélica de Latinoamérica Buenos Aires, July 18, 2023 – As part
WEA Singles Initiative Finds Global Partners
A significant segment of evangelical adults around the world are single or single again. “I don’t think the evangelical church has ever advanced an intentional national or
Seblewengel Daniel Named WEA Women’s Commission Director
The World Evangelical Alliance is pleased to announce the appointment of Dr. Seblewengel (Seble) Daniel as the new Director of the WEA Women’s Commission. She
Stopping violence based on religion must be a priority
By Janet Epp Buckingham – Originally published on Evangelical Focus For Christians around the world, August 22 should become an important day on the calendar.
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