As climate change marches on, African churches keep the momentum
As climate change marches on, African churches keep the momentum
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Tue, 08/11/2026 - 11:33
As the global climate crisis accelerates faster than collective response and new conflicts slice attention, African church leaders are highlighting the need to increase action, as the emergency hurts their congregations.
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Kesinary Vinkhumbo harvests corn on her farm in Edundu, Malawi. She and other farmers in the village have benefited from intercropping and crop rotation practices they learned from the Malawi Farmer-to-Farmer Agro-Ecology project of the Ekwendeni Mission Hospital AIDS Program, a program of the Livingstonia Synod of the Church of Central Africa Presbyterian.
Photo: Paul Jeffrey/Life on Earth
The impacts are being felt in extreme temperatures, severe droughts, devastating floods, and accelerating vector and water-borne diseases across the continent.
“ We have to scale up our voice. When we have spoken, it doesn't mean that we've been heard,” said Rev. Nicta Lubaale, general secretary of the Organization of African Instituted Churches in an interview. “There are conflicts, which have global attention.…
