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 [...]
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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 [...]
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Posted in Africa, Asia/Pacific, HIV/Aids, Latin America/Carribean, Life, UN, Youth, Youth participation, tagged advocacy, AIDS, international meetings, Mexico, Youth, Youth participation on February 27, 2008 | 1 Comment »
As the first International AIDS Conference (IAC) ever held in Latin America, the XVII Mexico International AIDS Conference, “AIDS 2008″ will bring together 25,000 researchers, decision-makers, and advocates from around the world to collaborate and share in an effort to strengthen our global responses to HIV and [...]
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STOP VIOLENCE, NO MORE KIDNAPPING ! were some of the voices heard today.Thousands of people, not only Colombian but from other nationalities along the world were able to speak and pronounce themselves against violence and kidnapping, terrorism and all kind of violence in Colombia without fear.
More than 130 capitals cities around [...]
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A text by Thomas Kang from Brazil:
Twenty-five years ago, in the midst of political turbulences during the last years of the Brazilian military dictatorship, the National Council of Christian Churches (CONIC) was founded in 1982.
Nowadays, six churches are full members of CONIC: the Roman Catholic Church (Brazilian Conference of Bishops), the Christian [...]
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It was an exciting process. During the last two weeks my colleagues and I were browsing to a lot of good applications for the internship in the Lutheran World Federation for 2008. It was a tough call to make but now it is decided. We are going to have three interns:
- Rolita Machila from Zambia [...]
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In Colombia, we as young people have a church group who leads other young people of the country, its called JLMC (Juventud Luterana Misionera de Colombia), something like Colombian Missionarie Lutheran Youth.
Many young people of this group are composed for profesional musicians who teaches other church groups about music. So in certain way they define the [...]
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This week, the Commission on International Affairs of the World Council of Churches met here in Geneva. The World Council (just like the Lutheran World Federation) made a serious effort to have a higher youth participation. Thomas, a young Lutheran from Brazil, spoke about his first few days in the commission.
You can watch the video [...]
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Thomas Kang, our friend from Brazil, tells in the following story how the Lutheran church in Brazil reaches out to the poorest of the poor:
“Sao Paulo is the biggest city of Brazil (the metropolitan area has nearly 20 million inhabitans) but it is still growing quickly. While the economy causes this geographical expansion, few people [...]
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Posted in Africa, Asia/Pacific, Church, Ecumenism, Faith, Latin America/Carribean, Life, Middle East, North America, Youth, Youth participation on August 2, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Yesterday, Simone posted about her experiences at the Interfaith Seminar in Bossey. Here is how she reflected on these experiences:
“Interfaith encounter should not be something exceptional today. Most of our societies are plural and people of different faiths live close to one another. Some of us study with people of other faiths, live with them [...]
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