Christian World Service is encouraging churches to "Give Climate Hope this Christmas" by backing Pacific climate resilience in our education, worship and giving via the 2024 CWS Christmas Appeal.
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King Charles III has appointed Archbishop Emeritus Sir David Moxon KNZM, KStJ, MMCM as global Prelate of the Most Venerable Order of the Hospital of St John of Jerusalem.

The World Council of Churches has held a consultation on Christian in Tamaki-makau-rau this October, hosted by the Methodist Church of New Zealand and the Runanga Whakawhanaunga i ngā Hāhi - the Māori Conference of Churches.

Anglicans have joined with 'Christians for Peace in Palestine' to cement a Gaza memorial plaque outside Immigration Minister Erica Stanford's Auckland electorate office. The move came after the Minister turned down repeated requests for the Government to issue compassionate visas for Palestinians with family in New Zealand.  

Today on World Refugee Day, Christian World Service has launched Operation Refugee for 2024, the annual challenge where churches raise funds for people forced to flee their homes as refugees.

Christian World Service is calling for funding help for the Rafah Medical Clinic, which has responded to the Rafah invasion by setting up a mobile medical clinic meeting the needs of people displaced to the south by Israel’s ground offensive.

The three Archbishops of the Anglican Church in Aotearoa, New Zealand and Polynesia have spoken out in support of the Kanak people's right to self-determination and reiterated the Kanaky New Calendonian churches' call for calm in the face of the current political and social unrest.

Catholic and Protestant worship leaders in Burkina Faso have spoken of their “ecumenical conversion” as they prepared this year’s Week of Prayer for Christian Unity, which Southern Hemisphere Christians will mark between Ascension (May 9) and Pentecost (May 19) this year.

Bishops of the Anglican Church in Aotearoa, New Zealand and Polynesia meeting in Auckland this week have renewed the Anglican Church’s call for ceasefire in Gaza.