By Elias Massicame

There is an urgent need in Africa for the development of a new theology which responds to peoples' needs and frees itself from its 19th-century European ties. That is the challenge to churches and theological institutions throughout the continent.

It was one...

By Mirjam Schubert

There are two sides to Johannesburg. One is Sandton City with its high-rise towers, up-market hotels, luxury shopping mall and a conference centre whose corridors, from 22 August, were filled with delegates hurrying to the United Nations World Summit on Sustainable Development (WSSD). The other side, only...

By Royal Orr

(This is the third story in a three-part series on the accompaniment programme.)

Bishop Kamal Bathish of the Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem shook his head in sorrow.

"How can...

By Royal Orr

This is the second story in a three-part series on the accompaniment programme.

The team from the Ecumenical Accompaniment Programme (EAPPI) in Palestine and Israel was gathered on a hill overlooking the Israeli checkpoint...

By Royal Orr

Cf. Press update 02-25 of August 26

This is the first story in a three-part series on the accompaniment...

Bob Scott

"We are living in a world that has lost its way" is not a statement by President George W. Bush or His Holiness Pope John Paul or even anti-globalization activists. They are the words, spoken on 3 August 1927, of the preacher at the first meeting of the Faith and Order Commission, a meeting that was sixteen years in...

Bob Scott

For many years Indigenous representatives dreamed of having their own official place within the United Nations (UN) system, a place where governments would respect their aspirations and discuss solutions to problems on equal terms. The dream moved another step towards reality when the 1993 UN World Conference on Human Rights proposed...

Bob Scott

"We went to the Middle East in solidarity with the churches and people of that region at a time when many Westerners are afraid to go," said a participant in a seminar on "Sharing the Good News in the Middle East" held in Aleppo, Syria, 1-7 June 2002.

The World Council of Churches (WCC) has strengthened its...

Michael Stahl

"Believing without belonging" was the theme of a World Council of Churches (WCC) consultation held at the end of June at the Christian Jensen College in Breklum, Northern Germany. The 50 participants, mostly theologians from the European and North American churches, searched for "new paradigms of church and mission in secularized and post-modern...

Rainer Lang

While others are talking about their plans for the future, Magdalena Keller finds it hard to say goodbye. For about 17 years - from 1982 to 1999 - she was the director of Casa Locarno. Now this place of many meetings will be closed, and the house high on a hill above Locarno, on the Swiss shore of the Lago Maggiore, will be sold. It was purchased by the...