Posted in Life, Youth on May 30, 2008 | No Comments »
Today “The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian” is release in Poland. It is one of those movies that I was waiting for. Partly because it is an adaptation of “Prince Caspian” by C. S. Lewis a wonderful novel that I grew up with and partly because it is one of those few with Christian message [...]
Posted in Europe, Youth participation on May 27, 2008 | No Comments »
The German Protestant Youth offers the opportunity for young people in Europe between 17 - 27 years old to participate in a newspaper. During 4 days in November 2008, the participants are going to learn write, edit and design a newspaper discussing current European policy. All additional information you find here as a pdf-file. And [...]
Posted in Church, Enviroment, Faith, Justice, LWF, Youth participation on May 26, 2008 | No Comments »
The discussion about climate change and its implication for our faith and for our churches continues. Our colleague, Rev. Rolilta Machila, is currently doing a small research project on what people in our member churches think about climate change. Many young people have responded to this survey. Here is a short report from Rolita:
“In trying [...]
Posted in Africa, Asia/Pacific, Church, Ecumenism, Europe, LWF, Latin America/Carribean, Middle East, North America, Youth, Youth participation on May 22, 2008 | No Comments »
The Lutheran World Federation is about community. People from all over the world who belong to a host of churches on all continents say: We belong together. I care what happens to sister or brother in a far away country. We are connected in Jesus Christ.
That is really not a new idea. Christians from the [...]
Posted in Africa, Church, Justice, LWF, Youth, Youth participation on May 20, 2008 | No Comments »
Christine Mangale from Kenya participated in the youth caucus of the Commission for Sustainable Development from May 5th-16th 2008 at the UN Headquarters in New York, the themes were: Agriculture, Rural development, Land, Drought, Desertification, and Africa.
Christine made an intervention on behalf of children and youth (scroll down this page to the afternoon interactive session).
Amongst [...]
Posted in Life, Youth participation on May 19, 2008 | 1 Comment »
- By Jenny Skumsnes Moe, Norway
The CSD, The Matrix, and the future. It might sound like a script for a new futuristic movie, but it is actually quite real. This year the 16th CSD, that is Commission on Sustainable Development, took place in the basement of the UN building. This year was also the first [...]
Posted in Enviroment, Life, UN, Youth, Youth participation, tagged Climate Change on May 16, 2008 | No Comments »
What comes into your mind when you hear the word “Bali”? A warm and fancy tourist place in Indonesia with sand beaches and clear water; the terrible bombings in October 2002 leaving 202 people dead; or climate change? Well, non of the answers would be wrong, but this is blog is about climate change. In [...]
Posted in Life, Youth participation on May 14, 2008 | No Comments »
“Love’s in need of love today” is Stevie Wonder song from 1976. Someone once said to me that it is good to think theologically about things that have nothing to do with theology. And I really liked it. So read the lyrics and try to think about it in spiritual realm.
Love’s in need of love [...]
Posted in Africa, Church, Justice, UN, Youth, Youth participation on May 6, 2008 | No Comments »
What does youth unemployment has to do with peace building? Youth unemployment is, I suppose, an issue that occurs everywhere in the world, in the North and in the South, the East and the West, in rich countries and in poor countries alike. I personally read about that in my home country’s domestic news and [...]
