The World Council of Churches and All Africa Conference of Churches, in a joint statement, urged closer collaboration between church and church-health facilities and associations.“The COVID-19 pandemic has brought unprecedented challenges in the world,” reads the message. “In Africa, socio-economic structures and livelihoods have been disrupted.”
There is also a corresponding pandemic of fake news and misinformation, continues the message.
“We are encouraged with dynamic relationships in some countries between churches and church health facilities, whereby Christian health professionals support churches in providing health education, dispelling rumours and misinformation, as well as accompanying the leadership of churches as they make pertinent decisions,” reads the message. “In other places, however, churches and church health facilities are working in isolation and the health facilities are not part of the life and witness of the churches, or cooperation is only along denominational lines.”
Coping with the Coronavirus - WCC landing page
The World Council of Churches promotes Christian unity in faith, witness and service for a just and peaceful world. An ecumenical fellowship of churches founded in 1948, today the WCC brings together 350 Protestant, Orthodox, Anglican and other churches representing more than 550 million Christians in over 120 countries, and works cooperatively with the Roman Catholic Church. The WCC acting general secretary is Rev. Prof. Dr Ioan Sauca, from the Orthodox Church in Romania.
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