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,…
Published: 2026
Author:Edith Nyabicha (WVI) and Andres Martinez (JLI)
Visit the United Nations Inter-agency Task Force on Religion and Sustainable Development 2025 Annual Report.
Published: 2025
Author:UNIATF
Published: 2026
Author:Selina Palm and Noor ur Rehman
Report on JLI’s 2025 activities and progress.
Published: 2026
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…
Published: 2026
Author:Allen D. Hertzke
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…
Published: 2026
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…
Published: 2026
Author:Haleemah Ahmad
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…
Published: 2025
Author:Alvin Andanje, Jennifer Eggert, Emma Tomalin
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…
Published: 2025
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.…
Published: 2025
Author:Joint Learning Initiative on Faith and Local Communities, Christian Aid
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…
Published: 2025
Author:Dr Jennifer Philippa Eggert, Dr Behar Sadriu
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…
Published: 2025
Author:Joint Learning Initiative on Faith and Local Communities, Christian Aid
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…
Published: 2025
Author:Joint Learning Initiative on Faith and Local Communities, Christian Aid
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.
Published: 2025
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…
Published: 2024
Author:Almut-Barbara Renger, Juliane Stork, Philipp Öhlmann
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…
Published: 2025
Author:Romina Istratii, Benjamin Kalkum, Henok Hailu
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.…
Published: 2025
Author:Petra Kjellen Brooke, Emma Tomalin
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,…
Published: 2025
Author:Joram Tarusarira, Gracsious Maviza, Giulia Caroli
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.…
Published: 2025
Author:Heikki Hiilamo, Zo Ramiandra Rakotoarison, Stephanie Dietrich
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…
Published: 2022
Author:Ezekiel Boro, Tanvi Sapra, Jean-François de Lavison, Caroline Dalabona, Vinya Ariyaratne, Agus Samsudin
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…
Published: 2022
Author:Jørgen Thomsen
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…
Published: 2025
Author:Raphael Sartorius
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…
Published: 2022
Author:Ben-Willie Kwaku Golo, Ernestina Novieto
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…
Published: 2022
Author:Jacqueline Service
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…
Published: 2023
Author:Séverine Deneulin, Masooda Bano
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