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 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, 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 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 [...]
Posted in Justice, Life, Poverty/Affluence, tagged Food Prices on April 29, 2008 | No Comments »
Poor harvest, growing population…..probably are not enough to explain the skyrocketing food prices. Besides Biofuel, ’gambling’ in the futures market of food is certainly another human-induced reason of surging food prices.
Not long ago, investment banks, hedge funds, private equity were rushing to invest in CDOs and other subprime assets. Huge losses? Not at all. Anyway, Central banks will help out when those [...]
Posted in Church, Faith, Justice, Life on April 23, 2008 | No Comments »
“Peace can only last where human rights are respected, where the people are fed, and where individuals and nations are free.”
14th Dalai Lama
I assume everybody knows about situation in Tibet. I would say we get used to it. We are able to live normal lives while others are fighting for human rights, freedom, democracy. But [...]
Posted in Justice, Life, Poverty/Affluence on April 22, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Oil prices surge to new record of $118 a barrel!
Oil prices is surging; Food prices is skyrocketing.
The dilemma is: producing more biofuel may drive down the oil prices, but at the same time pushing up the food prices.
Remebered that just few months ago, I interviewed a renewable energy fund manager from US. I asked him about his view [...]
Posted in Justice, Poverty/Affluence, Youth participation on April 15, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Invitation to an international Conference for Fair Trade volunteers in Tallin, Estonia.
Posted in Africa, Justice, Life on April 14, 2008 | No Comments »
How to rig an election and stay in power: learning from a master, Zimbabwe’s ‘President’ Mugabe.
In the past, Mugabe managed to rig elections by intimidating voters beforehand. He used violence, often on the opposition candidates themselves, banned opposition rallies, and made various laws to put a lid on any opposition. These elections had been seen [...]
Posted in Africa, Ecumenism, Justice, Youth participation, tagged Africa, ecumenical, peace, reconciliation, Rwanda on March 28, 2008 | No Comments »
By George Arende
The Rwanda Youth Gathering opened today in a colorful ceremony presided over by Bishop George Kalisa of the Lutheran Church in Rwanda, at the Presbyterian centre Itito Isano.
Bishop Kalisa in his opening speech stressed the importance of the gathering since it brought together other youth from other countries. Bishop thanked the conveners [...]
