Posted in Enviroment, Justice, Life, UN, Youth, Youth participation on September 25, 2007 | No Comments »
Its a big deal that young people got to address the UN General Assembly global forum on climate change. With all the prime ministers and presidents in town, I can’t even enter the UN building. They build on a solid history of young people speaking out to protect the environment. Congratulations to these groups for [...]
Posted in Justice, LWF, Poverty, Poverty/Affluence, UN, Youth, Youth participation on September 25, 2007 | 2 Comments »
On the second day, the LWF participants spoke together with friends from ecumencial youth organizations about “Empowering Youth to Bridge the Digital Divide. Voices from young people world wide”. This way, young people from many parts of the world spoke about the exclusion of young people from ICT in their regions. In highly interactive groups [...]
Posted in Justice, LWF, Poverty, Poverty/Affluence, UN, Youth, Youth participation on September 24, 2007 | No Comments »
Here are some words of the Global Forum participants. The transscript will follow soon.
Posted in Justice, LWF, Life, UN, Youth, Youth participation on September 24, 2007 | No Comments »
Can Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) really help young people to participate better in their societies? What can be done to make this possible.
Geneva started a Global Forum today that is adressing these issues. About 500 particpants discussing these issues with the basic topics:
- ICT and Education
- ICT and Health
- ICT and social activism
Three young [...]
Posted in Church, Faith, North America, Youth participation on September 24, 2007 | 2 Comments »
The ELCA (Evangelical Lutheran Church in America), like most mainline protestant denominations here in the USA, does not have a large percentage of Young Adults present for worship on Sundays- and the numbers seem to be declining.
There is no simple answer to why this is, because there are probably a lot of reasons. One of [...]
Posted in Life on September 19, 2007 | 65 Comments »
Mexico City YouthForce E-Group / Grupo Electrónico para la FuerzaJoven de la Ciudad de México!
The Mexico City YouthForce has started an e-group for anyone interested in receiving periodic information about- and ways to get involved in- youth activities planned for the XVII International AIDS Conference (August 3-8, 2008).
Please join by emailing [...]
Posted in Church, Faith, Latin America/Carribean, Spirituality, Youth, Youth Ministry on September 16, 2007 | 2 Comments »
In Colombia, we as young people have a church group who leads other young people of the country, its called JLMC (Juventud Luterana Misionera de Colombia), something like Colombian Missionarie Lutheran Youth.
Many young people of this group are composed for profesional musicians who teaches other church groups about music. So in certain way they define the [...]
Posted in Church, Ecumenism, Justice, Latin America/Carribean, Poverty/Affluence, Youth participation on September 13, 2007 | 1 Comment »
This week, the Commission on International Affairs of the World Council of Churches met here in Geneva. The World Council (just like the Lutheran World Federation) made a serious effort to have a higher youth participation. Thomas, a young Lutheran from Brazil, spoke about his first few days in the commission.
You can watch the video [...]
Posted in Justice on September 12, 2007 | No Comments »
I have now had the opportunity to travel to and do service work in 5 continents, including my own. Here are some of the things I learned:
Stereotypes are stupid. Let them go and eliminate them from your vocabulary.
One of those stupid stereotypes is that Muslims hate Christians (or ‘Westerners’). I met a lot of Muslims, [...]
Posted in Life on September 11, 2007 | No Comments »
This is an interesting contest for innovative community building where young people can lead the way with blogs, cell phones, computer centers, videos — imagination.
Knight Foundation and MTV Partner on $500,000 “Young Creators Award” to Fund Digital Journalism Projects that Strengthen Community Ties
MTV and the Knight Foundation have just announced [...]
