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El secretario general del Consejo Mundial de Iglesias pastor Dr. Samuel Kobia ha felicitado al presidente electo del Paraguay, Fernando Lugo. En una carta fechada el 29 de abril, Kobia destaca el "compromiso con los más pobres y excluidos" del presidente electo, en línea con "la rica tradición de un cristianismo latinoamericano que se ha esforzado por seguir a Jesús en medio de una realidad marcada por la desigualdad y la injusticia". Reconociendo que como presidente Lugo deberá enfrentar "difíciles" desafíos, Kobia hace votos por que "su mandato traiga más justicia y reconciliación para el pueblo paraguayo", así como la posibilidad de "construir una sociedad que reduzca la brecha entre ricos y pobres y haga frente a la corrupción". El ex obispo católico romano Fernando Lugo ganó el 20 de abril pasado la elección presidencial del Paraguay, poniendo así fin a seis décadas de continuo dominio por un mismo partido.

The 29 March elections in Zimbabwe were "far from being free and fair" and were "skewed in favour of the incumbent who openly utilised state resources to his advantage," two ecumenical bodies said in a recently released report on the election. The Zimbabwean people "expressed their will on polling day" and that will must be "upheld and respected" the report said.

"El islam no se puede estudiar como estudiamos gramática", dijo el Patriarca Ignacio IV (Hazim) de la Iglesia Ortodoxa Griega en Siria a la delegación encabezada por el Rev. Dr. Samuel Kobia, secretario general del Consejo Mundial de Iglesias (CMI). La delegación había llegado a Siria con el deseo de aprender de la larga experiencia del país en cuanto a la convivencia pacífica entre cristianos y musulmanes. "Debemos entrar en contacto con la gente de la calle y compartir con ella. Los musulmanes comparten con ustedes viviendo en sus países. ¿Por qué les ignoran?" preguntó el Patriarca, en particular a los miembros de la delegación procedentes de Europa y los Estados Unidos de América, al comienzo de su visita del 19 al 22 de abril.

"Escoged entre vosotros hombres sabios, perspicaces y experimentados y yo los pondré al frente de vosotros"

Concerned about the integrity of elections, the World Council of Churches Central Committee stated recently that, "…in democratic systems, elections serve as a way for people to confer legitimacy on a participatory democratic political system. In order to ensure that an election truly reflects the will of the people, attention should be paid to pre- and post-electoral mechanisms."

"Islam cannot be studied like grammar," Patriarch Ignatius IV (Hazim) of the Greek Orthodox Church in Syria, told a delegation led by Rev. Dr Samuel Kobia, general secretary of the World Council of Churches (WCC), who had come to Syria wishing to learn from the country's long experience of Christians and Muslims living peacefully together. "We have to see the real people and share with them. Muslims are sharing with you by living in your countries. Why do you ignore them?" the patriarch asked particularly the delegation members from Europe and the United States at the outset of their 19 to 22 April visit.

The diminishing religious diversity in the Middle East was discussed as a threat to the stability of the region on Monday 21 April meeting between a WCC delegation and Syrian president Bashar al-Assad.

El secretario general del Consejo Mundial de Iglesias (CMI), Rev. Dr. Samuel Kobia, expresó su reconocimiento por la buena labor realizada por las iglesias en la región del Golfo, al final de una visita a los Emiratos Árabes Unidos (EAU) realizada del 17 al 19 de abril.

Krister Stendahl, eminente ecumenista, especialista en el Nuevo Testamento, Obispo Emérito de Estocolmo y ex decano de la Facultad de Teología de Harvard, falleció el martes en Boston a los 86 años.

Appreciation for the good work done by churches in the Gulf region was expressed by the World Council of Churches (WCC) general secretary Rev. Dr Samuel Kobia at the end of a 17 to 19 April visit to the United Arab Emirates.

Krister Stendahl, eminent ecumenist, New Testament scholar, former bishop of Stockholm and dean of the Harvard Divinity School, died Tuesday in Boston at 86 years of age.

"La migración es un hecho de vida. Es tanto un instinto de supervivencia como una consecuencia inevitable de la globalización. No podemos volverle la espalda, ni controlarla", afirmaron en una declaración los participantes en la Reunión pública de información y debate sobre la migración y el cambiante panorama eclesial, celebrada en Beirut, Líbano, los días 15 y 16 de abril. "Los migrantes no son productos comerciales ni extranjeros ilegales ni meras víctimas, son seres humanos."

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."

By Juan Michel (*) Â

"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."