Posted in Church, Ecumenism, Faith, Justice, North America on January 27, 2008 | No Comments »
This year, March 7-10th, over a thousand Christians are expected to gather in Washington D.C. to be advocates for justice and peace in the annual Ecumenical Advocacy Days conference.
The event, part on the movement of the Ecumenical Christan Community, included over 200 youth last year, and more are expected this year. Participants will be inspired by different [...]
Posted in Church, Ecumenism, Enviroment, Justice, LWF, Life, Youth, Youth participation on January 25, 2008 | 3 Comments »
The Ecumenical Water Network (EWN) organizes an International Summer School for youth and young adults (18-30). Many Lutheran churches are tackling the issue as well and the Lutheran World Federation’s Desk for Women in Church and Society had already a series of consultations on the issue.The summer school has the following description:
“Preserving the world’s water resources [...]
Posted in Church, Ecumenism, Faith, LWF, Youth participation on January 24, 2008 | 1 Comment »
“Pray without ceasing!” (1 Thess 5:17)
It is a challenging bible passage that was at the center of this year’s Week of Prayer for Christian Unity. How can we live a life that is continuously rooted in Prayer? A group of international Christian youth organizations did not want to sit through this challenge. Therefore, we met [...]
Posted in Faith, Justice, Life, UN, tagged interfaith, United Nations, women on January 23, 2008 | 1 Comment »
This post is by Christian Albers, a vicar from Germany who is interning at the Lutheran Office for World Community at the United Nations in New York.
When Daisy Khan was introduced today at the Faith and Feminism Brown Bag Lunch sponsored by the Sister Fund in New York City, the Muslim woman was [...]
Posted in Church, Europe, Faith, Justice, Life, Poverty, Poverty/Affluence on January 18, 2008 | No Comments »
Video of homeless life in London with music from Jason Upton, “Emma” from the “Between Heaven & Earth” album.
I’ve got some “free” thoughts to share. First one that came to my mind was - those faces are beautiful… those pictures are beautiful. There is something deep in their faces… deep in their eyes. Something that [...]
Posted in Church, Faith, LWF, Youth participation on January 16, 2008 | No Comments »
“I must say this is fascinating - to be able chat with people from everywhere sharing the same passion…!”, says Mikkel from Denmark. Starting this week, the LWF Youth Liaisons have started to meet. However, since it is not possible that they would come together in person, they meet on the Internet. In an online [...]
Posted in Church, Europe, Faith, Life, Spirituality on January 14, 2008 | No Comments »
I do make donations. By clicking on web sites. I’m fighting with hunger, supporting free child healthcare, I’m protecting rainforest. I’m saving the world in other words There is absolutely no charge for the donation - it is fully paid by the sponsor(s). It takes about 5 seconds. Not much effort. Last month I [...]
Posted in Africa, Church, Justice, Life on January 9, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Our friend Moses Aboka sent in the following report:
“During the last few weeks we have been experiencing political unrest in our beloved country Kenya. All this started immediately after the announcements of the presidential election outcome which were closely contested.
Immediately after the announcements the opposition claimed that the elections was rigged, and [...]
Posted in Africa, Church, Ecumenism, Europe, Faith, Life, Spirituality on January 9, 2008 | No Comments »
Why write everything for yourself if somebody else has done it already? Since a few days, I wanted to write a reflection about the Taizé event in Geneva. In the meantime, three young people who were invited to attend the meeting on behalf of the World Council of Churches wrote a piece. You can read [...]
Posted in Church, LWF, Youth on January 3, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Please don’t ask why I didn’t come across this earlier. Since we started the LWF youth blog six months ago, many people said: “Hey, that is really great. Why don’t you do it in more than English.” My answer was always: “Because it is simply too much work.” I could not imagine that we could [...]
