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In 2025, in partnership with the World Council of Churches (WCC), Caritas Internationalis, and a range of national and local faith partners, World Vision convened 93 Faith-Based Nutrition Dialogues across 20 countries, engaging 7,697 participants. Participants included faith leaders, women,…

Visit the United Nations Inter-agency Task Force on Religion and Sustainable Development 2025 Annual Report.

Report on JLI’s 2025 activities and progress.

Why Religious Freedom Matters: Human Rights and Human Flourishing by Allen D. Hertzke was published in April 2026 through University of Notre Dame Press. Drawing on twenty-five years of immersion in global networks of scholarship and advocacy, this book offers…

In a recent issue of the Living Planet Monitor, the World Council of Churches (WCC) featured a success story from the Joint Learning Initiative on Faith and Local Communities (JLI) across pages 64–66. The feature showcases how localized faith responses…

Poliomyelitis, commonly known as polio, remains a critical public health challenge in Pakistan and Afghanistan, the only two countries where wild poliovirus type 1 (WPV1) continues to circulate. Despite substantial global progress since the launch of the Global Polio Eradication…

This report captures the experiences and perspectives of how faith actors uniquely define, enact, approach, and validate localization and decolonization objectives. Amid growing calls to shift power and agency to local communities, the study investigates the conceptualization of localization and…

Faith actors are well recognized as first responders and trusted partners for communities that face forced migration due to climate change and related events. They mobilize material support (food, shelter, medical treatment) while delivering important psychosocial and spiritual care to…

Climate migration is no longer a distant scenario; it is now a present-day challenge. Around the world, rising seas, shifting rainfall patterns, flooding, droughts, and heatwaves are forcing people from their homes through both slow-onset pressures and sudden, catastrophic events.…

Contributing to debates about faith-based humanitarian action and development as well as domestic programming, this article examines the domestic COVID-19 (coronavirus disease 2019) responses of two British Islamic faith-based organisations (FBOs). It discusses how Islamic Relief UK and the Ramadan…

La migración climática ya no es solamente un escenario lejano. El aumento del nivel del mar, los cambios en los patrones de precipitación, las inundaciones, las sequías y las olas de calor están obligando a las personas a abandonar sus…

La migration climatique n’est plus un scénario lointain ; elle constitue désormais un défi actuel. Partout dans le monde, la hausse du niveau des mers, l’instabilité pluviométrique, les inondations, les sécheresses et les vagues de chaleur forcent des populations entières…

How can we help children thrive without violence in faith communities? Discover the four learnings that emerged from discussion between survivors, faith leaders and child sector professionals.

This editorial introduces Religion & Development Vol. 2, Issue 3 – Special Issue on “Religion and Ecology: Perspectives on Environment and Sustainability across Religious Traditions.” The articles delve into the intricate relationship between religion and ecology from diverse perspectives. The…

Domestic violence interventions that engage religious leaders and clergy have increased significantly in recent years, spanning social work, psychology, public health, and international development. The international evidence indicates the need for culturally appropriate and theologically informed interventions that may combine…

This article identifies a number of intersecting binaries that shape The Salvation Army’s (TSA) social outreach environment and examines efforts to unite these as part of an “integrated mission”. Two of these have been highlighted since the earliest days of TSA (i.e.…

This article examines how religio-cultural values influence the vulnerability and adaptive capacity of local communities in the face of climate-change-induced security risks through a case study of vulnerable communities in northern Mozambique. These risks encompass various forms of suffering, displacement,…

Religions play a crucial role in driving behavioral transformation towards harmony with nature. Consequently, faith-based organizations have increasingly taken an interest in addressing climate change and promoting environmental sustainability, with ecotheology and environmental initiatives gaining prominence over the past decade.…

The COVID-19 crisis is affecting millions of lives and has wreaked some of its greatest havoc and suffering among the vulnerable and marginalised populations of the world, many of whom belong to religious and faith-based communities. In times of crisis and…

The article reflects on the practical experience of the Side by Side Faith Movement for Gender Justice (SbS): faith actors often play a decisive role in the formation of values, concepts and beliefs that determine how women and men see…

The Sustainable Development Report 2019 points out that the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) might not be achieved, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa (sic). This paper tries to investigate alternatives to the hegemonic “development” discourse and ideas of “development”: what would be the notion…

The secular approach to development has treated religion as anti-developmental. However, the history of how development was part of missionary activity, such as the provision of health and educational infrastructure in some African countries, has been widely acknowledged. In this…

Christianity has been instrumental in fashioning the contemporary Western paradigm of humanitarian aid and development. However, as a secular agenda increasingly defines this space, the question of what difference a religious cosmology makes to Christian faith-based development organisations (FBDO s) becomes…

Concerns for the vulnerable, the poor and marginalised, both human and non-human, are central to the Christian and Muslim religions. This special issue focuses on the one hand on Catholic social thought and practice with regard to care for the…