Anglican Communion at the UN

The Anglican Communion Office at the UN (ACOUN) represents and raises up Anglican voices across the United Nations system.

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This week the Anglican Communion's UN Team are taking part in the UN Environment Assembly. We are grateful to David Munene from the Catholic Youth Network for Environmental Sustainability in Africa for this statement to the UN Environment Assembly
#UNEA6 @davemunene @CYNESA

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The Anglican Communion will be represented at the UN Environment Assembly in Nairobi, to discuss the triple planetary crisis of climate change, biodiversity loss and pollution.

Read the full story: https://t.co/CUPsO2QyIe
#Anglicans #UNEA6

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'These resolutions give us a new way of being - from a throw away economic system to a circular economy that recognises the value of the environment and our interconnectedness'.
- The Revd Rachel Mash, Coordinator for the Anglican Communion Environment Network

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Tanzania, Egypt, Canada, USA and Europe - just some of the places where Anglican churches are working to help the millions of refugees forced to move by climate change & conflict. Read about how we represented their work at UN @refugees #RefugeeForum here:
https://t.co/ZE5lu76141

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It's International Day of Zero Tolerance to Female Genital Mutilation. Bishop Rose Okeno in Kenya, first female Bishop in Central & East Africa, campaigns tirelessly for women and girls against female genital mutilation
#endFGM
https://t.co/rzwlW6kvV6

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Yesterday was International Day of Human Fraternity. In South Sudan, the Council of Churches works on reconciliation, forums for dialogue, and local and high-level mediation, to bring Christ's peace to this war-torn region
#humanfraternityday @undppa
https://t.co/FxCPxI8DA4

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Anglicans attended an event by the Holy See's Mission in Geneva on Artificial Intelligence, responding to Pope Francis' message on AI and Peace of December 2023 for the World Day of Peace
#Anglicans

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Today in 2020, @WHO declared COVID 19 an emergency. WHO recognised the trust held by faith groups and worked with Anglican churches across the world to localise messages about masks, sanitising, distancing, burial practices and vaccine equity

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The @UN issued a Youth Declaration on the 75th anniversary of the Declaration on Human Rights. Young people from the Anglican Communion @AngYouthNetwork fed into it: read their submission here: https://t.co/RXXBTwejSr
#humanrights75 @UN_HRC

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It’s International Day of #Education. For 20 years, @MothersUnion has worked on education in Burundi, and now 144,000 people, 89% women, can read and write. Find out more of their life-changing work here: https://t.co/YAKz8SwMSV @UN_SDG

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Join members of the Anglican Communion’s #COP28 delegation to reflect on what was achieved.
Find out how you are your church can be more involved in our global environmental advocacy in the year ahead.
Register here: https://t.co/pfoMfiXQF9
#Anglicans

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The Anglican Communion’s Assistant Permanent Representative to the UN in Geneva, the Revd Glen Ruffle, recently attended the Global Refugee Forum.
Click to read his blog: https://t.co/z2bt6zgRhE
#Anglicans

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At the Global #RefugeeForum, the Anglican Communion joined with faith organisations across the world to recommit to welcoming the stranger, share responsibilities with host communities, challenge representations, and work to improve the lives of refugees. #withrefugees @refugees

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In the Faith Action for Children on the Move coalition led by @WorldVision at the Global #RefugeeForum, the Anglican Communion aims to help provide & improve faith-sensitive mental health care for child refugees #withrefugees @refugees

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Many dioceses in the Anglican Church of Canada have pledge to submit applications to sponsor refugees at @UNHCR’s Global #RefugeeForum @pwrdf @generalsynod #withrefugees

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The Anglican Communion’s Province of Alexandria has pledged at the #RefugeeForum to continue its holistic care of refugees, called Refuge Egypt. Medical care, food, education and training is provided by Anglican Christians in Egypt to support refugees @followembrace #withrefugees

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At @UNHCR’s #RefugeeForum, Anglicans in Tanzania pledged to advocate for fair treatment for refugees in Tanzania, & to support Savings Groups, Entrepreneurship Programs & the provision of Trauma Support, because as Christians, we are called to generous hospitality #withrefugees

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Anglicans are at @UNHCR’s Global #refugeeforum in Geneva, seeking to represent the work Anglican Christians are doing around the world and urge states to help the 110+ million people displaced by war, climate change and famine. #withrefugees #Anglicans

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Anglicans at COP28 - “We come away disappointed that the final political outcomes of this COP lack ambition”

Read Archbishop Julio Murray's blog: https://t.co/2DSZUvCpt4

#COP28 #Anglicans
@FaithAtCop28 @faithpavilion

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A brilliant side event this morning at #COP28 exploring religious resistance to climate change. @vanessa_vash 'Advocacy is more than a passion; it is a responsibility from God. Even Jesus faced religious resistance. It is the heart of Christ that works in me.' @RenewOurWorld_