Posted in Church, Ecumenism, Europe, Faith, Youth on December 28, 2007 | No Comments »
It is an uncommon sight for this usually very quite city. Hundreds, no thousands of young people flood the trams and buses with sleeping bags on their shoulders. Today started the Prayer Meeting of the Taizé community in Geneva and 30,000 young people have come. You can here see some photos of the event so far. Most [...]
Posted in Church, Enviroment, Justice, Poverty, Poverty/Affluence, Youth, Youth Ministry, Youth participation on December 20, 2007 | 1 Comment »
The conference in Bali is over and everybody is relieved that it did not end in a disaster. But as expected, the outcome was thin. The only result was that there is now a timetable until when the follow-up agreement after the Kyoto protocol shall be finalized.
Therefore, it is important to keep up the pressure. [...]
Posted in Church, Ecumenism, Faith, North America, Spirituality on December 18, 2007 | No Comments »
Searching the Internet for a completly different thing I discovered a very interesting post. Peter Kline - a young theologian working in a Lutheran congregation in the USA without being Lutheran himself - speaks about why it still makes sense to study Martin Luther.
He is talking very much from within the US American culture. But [...]
Posted in Europe, Justice, LWF, UN on December 13, 2007 | 1 Comment »
The status of Kosovo, a Southern province of Serbia, has been in limbo for almost a decade. After Serbia began committing crimes against humanity in Kosovo against ethnic Albanians, a brief war in 1999, led by NATO, knocked Serb forces out of Kosovo for good. Since then, the United Nations Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK) has overseen the governance and security of the province.
In [...]
Posted in Church, Enviroment, Faith, Justice, Life, Poverty, Poverty/Affluence, Spirituality, UN, Youth, Youth participation on December 4, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Yesterday started the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Bali, Indonesia. W Leaders come together to discuss how the governments can approach a new treaty to combat climate damaging pollution.
At the Lutheran World Federation, we discussed how we can talk about the climate change from a theological perspective. That is very necessary because it is [...]
