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Por Juan Michel (*)

"Migration is a fact of life. It is as much an instinct to survive as it is an inevitable consequence of globalization. We can neither turn our backs on it, nor control it," declared in a statement participants at a 15-16 April Public Hearing on Migration and the Changing Ecclesial Landscape in Beirut, Lebanon. "Migrants are not commodities, illegal aliens or mere victims, they are human beings."

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"Migration is a human concern, not a Muslim or a Christian one, and therefore Christians and Muslims must act on it together." Representatives of Lebanon's six most numerous faith communities shared this view as the Public Hearing on Migration and the Changing Ecclesial Landscape was officially opened in Beirut on April 14.

"The ecumenical movement is only faithful to the Gospel, if it is a movement of hope confronting itself with the reality of the severe threats to life that people are facing in today's world", said the World Council of Churches (WCC) general secretary Rev. Dr Samuel Kobia in Lunteren, the Netherlands, on Friday 11 April. Those threats include "the deadly scandal of poverty, diseases such as HIV and AIDS, the devastating and destructive consequences of climate change, and war - including the re-emerging danger of the use of nuclear weapons".

The World Council of Churches (WCC) has welcomed the initiative of Zambian President Levy Mwanawasa to convene a summit of Southern African heads of state to address the current crisis in Zimbabwe.

Basándose en una franca evaluación de los efectos de dos decenios de guerra, jóvenes sudaneses señalaron a dirigentes eclesiales lo que más necesitan: capacitación en oficios, puestos de trabajo y formas de participar en la configuración del futuro de su país. Las mujeres sudanesas, a su vez, hablaron sobre su vulnerabilidad, acrecentada por la guerra y los modelos culturales.

Several member churches of the Danish National Council of Churches (DNCC) recently sent a response to a 13 Oct. 2007 open letter from 138 prominent Muslim scholars and leaders to church leaders around the world. The Danish church response was published 10 Apr. in the Danish newspaper, the Christian Daily. The 16 member churches who were signatories to the response said the Muslim letter "represents an important step in the essential dialogue between adherents of the world's two largest religions."

Ms Geneviève Jacques, former World Council of Churches (WCC) Director of Programmes, has been awarded the Légion dHonneur by the French Republic for her active solidarity with the peoples of the South.

A pioneer of inter-Christian dialogue who played a leading role in the movement for Christian reconciliation and unity, Protopresbyter Vitaly Borovoy, from the Russian Orthodox Church, died on 7 April aged 93.

Las Comuniones Cristianas Mundiales y la Comisión de Fe y Constitución del Consejo Mundial de Iglesias enviaron representantes al Noveno Foro sobre Diálogos Bilaterales para compartir información sobre las consultas bilaterales celebradas recientemente entre las iglesias para examinar la visión de la unidad expresada en sus textos ecuménicos.

Los testimonios de jóvenes cristianos de Oriente Medio sobre por qué muchos de ellos abandonan la región buscando un futuro más halagüeño configurarán la Audiencia Pública sobre migración y cambios en el paisaje eclesial, que tendrá lugar en Beirut los día 15 y 16 de abril. Una delegación ecuménica presidida por el secretario general del Consejo Mundial de Iglesias (CMI), Rev. Dr. Samuel Kobia, asistirá a dicha audiencia al comienzo de una visita de siete días a la región centrada en la migración como fenómeno mundial.

Based on a candid assessment of how two decades of war have affected them, Sudanese youth told church leaders what they need most: skills training, jobs and means of participating in shaping their country's future. Sudanese women, in turn, spoke out about their vulnerability, increased by war and cultural patterns.

"We remain committed to work side by side with the churches", the president of Southern Sudan Salva Kiir Mayardit told representatives of an international ecumenical delegation in Juba, Southern Sudan, on 3 April 2008.

Sudanese churches stand at a crossroads, said the World Council of Churches (WCC) general secretary Rev. Dr Samuel Kobia. On the one hand, they face a transition from liberation fight to rebuilding their homes and communities. On the other, they live in a country where Islam and Christianity cross paths and the relationship between the two is vital.

Por Juan Michel (*)

By Juan Michel (*)

Christian World Communions as well as the Commission on Faith and Order of the World Council of Churches sent representatives to the Ninth Forum on Bilateral Dialogues in order to share information on recent bilateral consultations between churches and to discuss the vision of unity expressed in their ecumenical texts.

En medio de los combates y la crisis humanitaria que se padece en varias regiones del Sudán, y con el riesgo de que fracase el acuerdo de paz de 2005 que puso fin a dos decenios de guerra civil entre el norte y el sur, el pueblo y las iglesias del Sudán se enfrentan con "enormes tareas y desafíos", tal como se informó a un equipo ecuménico internacional de representantes de iglesias, al comienzo de una visita de solidaridad de ocho días realizada al país.

The movie Fitna, recently released online by Dutch parliamentarian Geert Wilders was criticized as "a clear case of Islamophobia" by Rev. Dr Shanta Premawardhana, director of the World Council of Churches' (WCC) Programme on Interreligious Dialogue and Cooperation.