Re-visioning justice in the 21st century

Participants at the WCC Indigenous Peoples’ pre-Assembly in Porto Alegre, Brazil, 2006. Photo: Paulino Menezes/WCC

Representatives of concerns of people living with disabilities, Indigenous Peoples, Dalits and those struggling against racism will meet in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 18 - 23 August 2008, as part of a continuing conversation on “churches becoming and effecting just and inclusive communities” that began in La Paz, Bolivia in May 2007.

This consultation, under the theme “Re-visioning justice from the margins of the new world in the 21st century”, will reflect on the fate and future of justice in today’s world, which is in many ways different from the context and challenges of the 20th century that shaped the modern ecumenical movement. While it was “inclusivity” that drew the attention in La Paz, it will be “justice” this time in Rio.

The consultation - organized by the World Council of Churches’ programme “Towards just and inclusive communities” and hosted by Koinonia, Rio de Janeiro - will also address the agenda of three major upcoming ecumenical gatherings: the Faith and Order Plenary Commission in 2009; Edinburgh 2010 - a commemorative event of the centenary of the 1910 World Missionary Conference; and the International Ecumenical Peace Convocation in Kingston, Jamaica in 2011.

More on the consultation (pdf, 15.5 KB)

More on the WCC’s programme “Towards just and inclusive communities”