World Council of Churches and the 16 days of Activism Against Gender Based Violence
The WCC is challenging us to have “transformative conversations on how we can break patterns of gender-based violence in our churches, homes, and communities.” Dr Manoj Kurian, Director of the WCC Commission of the Churches on Health and Healing
And Rev. Nicole Ashwood, WCC programme executive for a Just Community of Women and Men has urged us “to pause during these days and consider the stories of many women and girls across the world who have survived digital violence—and how we can prevent this from happening in the first place,”
Leader: The cry for justice grows louder.
People: We hear it and we will not turn away.
Leader: Economic justice.
People: Fairness for all, dignity in work.
Leader: Gender justice.
People: Equality in voice, safety in life.
Leader: Climate justice.
People: Healing the earth, protecting the vulnerable.
Leader: Digital justice.
People: Access, privacy, and power shared.
Together: The cry for justice grows louder. We rise to answer.
Together, these strands weave into a single fabric of structural inequality that reshapes societies. What’s striking is how they overlap: climate injustice often deepens economic inequality; gender injustice is amplified in digital spaces; economic injustice drives vulnerability to climate crises.
Let us pray
God of mercy and truth,
We lift before You the voices of the weary,
those crushed by economic injustice,
those silenced by gendered violence and exclusion,
those displaced and endangered by climate chaos,
those left behind in the digital divide.
Hold the victims in Your tender care.
Restore dignity where it has been denied.
Bring healing where wounds run deep.
Let hope rise where despair has taken root.
God of justice and courage,
Do not let us turn away.
Stir our hearts to action:
to share resources with fairness,
to honour every person’s worth,
to protect creation with urgency,
to demand equity in the digital realm.
Make us restless until justice flows like a river,
until compassion becomes our common language,
until power is shared and peace is planted.
Together we pray:
May the cry for justice grow louder in us,
and may our lives become the answer.
May it be so AMEN.
