Posted in Church, Ecumenism, Europe, Faith, Justice, Youth, tagged Migration on June 10, 2008 | No Comments »
What have the biblical persons of Abraham and Hagar, Jacob and Rebekka, Joseph, Rut, Jesus and Mary in common? Right, they all were migrants. People who left their home country for a limted or forever to live and work elsewhere.
Migration is a contentious issue today. In many countries, people are hostile towards people who do [...]
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 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, Asia/Pacific, Europe, Latin America/Carribean, Middle East, North America, Poverty, Poverty/Affluence, UN, Youth, Youth participation on April 4, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Yesterday, Francis and I went to the Presentation of the World Youth Report 2007. For the main website of LWF (www.lutheranworld.org) I put together a formal report. Here is it:
“There has never been a generation that was more likely to volunteer and be involved in community causes than this one,” said Patience W. Stephens, the [...]
Posted in Church, Ecumenism, Europe, Youth, Youth Ministry, Youth participation on March 31, 2008 | No Comments »
From March 18 - 6 June in Wroclaw, Poland will take place ecumenical music workshops. The idea is to sing songs from different religion traditions. Four directors will try to lead this ecumenical choir through Jewish, orthodox, protestant and catholic traditional singing. Choir is meeting two times a week and it’s mainly for youth and [...]
Posted in Church, Ecumenism, Europe, Faith, Life, Youth, Youth Ministry, Youth participation on March 1, 2008 | 1 Comment »
From April 6 - 13 in Katowice, Poland starts an event called ProChrist an evangelistic ministry started in 1993 in Essen, Germany as a result of a Billy Graham Crusade there. ProChrist is organized in Poland for the first time. In the past ProChrist was transmitted form Germany. This year ProChrist will be aired daily [...]
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, 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, 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, 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 [...]
