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 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 Enviroment, UN, tagged Climate Change, Disease, UN, water, WHO, world health day on April 7, 2008 | No Comments »
Review the themes of World Health Day in the past years:
2007: International health security; 2006: Working together for health; 2005: Make every mother and child count; 2004: Road Safety……
This year 2008, the theme - Climate Change.
Honestly, that is quite a surprising theme for me to think about World Health Day. But, when I looked at what WHO director-general [...]
Posted in Ecumenism, Enviroment, UN, tagged UN, water, world water day on March 20, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Today marks the UN World Water Day 2008 while 1.2 billion people worldwide lack access to safe drinking water.
The UN estimates that half of the world’s hospital beds are occupied by patients suffering from water-borne diseases. As UN Secretary-General Ban Ki Moon says, ‘When you look at the health and development challenges faced by the poorest [...]
Posted in Africa, Church, Enviroment, LWF, UN, Youth, Youth participation on March 3, 2008 | No Comments »
The United Nations secretary general, Ban Ki-Moon had a short visit to Ecumenical Center today evening. He also attended a prayer service with us. There was a choir from Korean Church in Geneva singing beautiful hymns in Korean.
One of the issues the UN chief particularly highlighted was climate change. He said the problem will only be resolved through a global [...]
Posted in Church, Enviroment, Justice, Life, Poverty, Youth on February 1, 2008 | No Comments »
What you do makes a difference and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make”
Jane Goodam
Sometimes we just have to acknowledge that we do makes a difference. Whether we like it or not. If you don’t turn the tap off while brushing your teeth - you make a difference. If [...]
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, 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, 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 [...]
Posted in Asia/Pacific, Church, Ecumenism, Enviroment, Faith, Justice, Life, Poverty, Poverty/Affluence, Youth, Youth participation on October 19, 2007 | 1 Comment »
A few days ago, I visited India and participated in an National Ecumencial Youth Workshop “Youth, Dignity and Spirituality” in Jeypore, Orissa. I was the first time in India and it is really a fascinating country (I even gained some weight because of the great food).
Angelious Michael, the energetic youth secretary of the Jeypore Evangelical [...]
