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Le Pèlerinage de justice et de paix se poursuit : « Priez pour la patience, la sagesse et la perspicacité ».

Le Groupe de référence et le Groupe d’étude théologique du Pèlerinage de justice et de paix du Conseil œcuménique des Églises (COE), qui se sont réunis à la mi-juin, ont apporté des réflexions, des prières et des idées qui paveront la voie vers la 11e Assemblée du COE à Karlsruhe en 2022.



Jim Winkler, président et secrétaire général du Conseil national des Églises des États-Unis et le pasteur Peter Noteboom, secrétaire général du Conseil canadien des Églises, ont fait part de leurs réflexions sur leur récente réunion. 

 

As Pilgrimage of Justice and Peace continues, “pray for patience, wisdom, and insight”

The World Council of Churches (WCC) Pilgrimage of Justice and Peace Reference Group and Theological Study Group, which convened in mid-June, brought reflections, prayers and insights that will form a path toward the WCC 11th Assembly in Karlsruhe in 2022.

Jim Winkler, president and general secretary of the National Council of Churches (USA) and Pastor Peter Noteboom, general secretary of The Canadian Council of Churches, shared reflections on their recent gathering. 

In Asia, COVID-19 “is a spotlight exposing fault lines” of injustice

With each wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, communities have been experiencing collective trauma that has further deepened the injustices, including racism and economic inequity,” said Rev. Dr Sang Chang, World Council of Churches (WCC) president for Asia, during an online consultation, organised by the WCC and the Christian Conference of Asia on 4 June.

Indigenous peoples and the pandemic in the land of inequalities

476 million indigenous people live around the world, of which 11.5% live in our Latin American region. In these years that we are going from the COVID 19 pandemic in our territories (indigenous or tribal at the Latin American level), the presence of many extractive companies, mainly uranium and lithium, has increased, land traffickers and among other monoculture companies with fires for the cultivation of oil palm, logging, putting vulnerable peoples at greater risk than what is already experienced.

L’impératif de revenir aux fondements de l’œcuménisme

Mme Agnes Abuom, modératrice du Comité central du Conseil œcuménique des Églises (COE), a été interrogée sur la réunion du Comité exécutif du COE qui s’est tenue du 17 au 23 mai 2021. Le Comité exécutif du COE a exprimé son espoir pour l’avenir tout en abordant de multiples crises mondiales par des déclarations, des messages pastoraux et des appels à la prière.

La transition vers une programmation et des prières en ligne au cours de la COVID-19 a représenté un défi pour le COE et le reste du monde, a constaté Mme Abuom, qui a déclaré qu’il s’agissait d’un «lourd fardeau» pour tous les membres de la famille œcuménique alors que le COE se prépare à sa 11e Assemblée à Karlsruhe, en Allemagne, l’année prochaine.

The imperative to go back to the ecumenical basics

Dr Agnes Abuom, moderator of the World Council of Churches (WCC) central committee, was asked about the WCC executive committee meeting held on 17-23 May 2021. The WCC executive committee set a tone of hope for the future while, at the same time, addressing multiple global crises with statements, pastoral messages, and calls for prayer.

The transition to online programming and prayers during COVID-19 has challenged the WCC, and the rest of the world, Abuom found, and said is a heavy burden” on all in the ecumenical family as the WCC prepares for its 11th Assembly in Karlsruhe, Germany next year.

The pandemic does not stop the pilgrimage— it deepens the accompaniment

As part of a series of material prepared for a special edition of the WCC newsletter focusing on the Pilgrimage of Justice and Peace, WCC news interviewed Rev. Prof. Dr Fernando Enns, from the Association of Mennonite Congregations in Germany, and Jennifer Martin, Education in Mission secretary for the Caribbean and North America Council for Mission, United Church in Jamaica and the Cayman Islands. Enns and Martin share the moderation of the Reference Group of the World Council of Churches (WCC) Pilgrimage of Justice and Peace since its creation in 2013.

Arctic communities to WCC pilgrims: “We need your voice”

Lorraine Netro, who was raised in the Gwichin First Nation of Old Crow, Yukon (Canada), is part of an indigenous community—but shes also a global citizen.

Todays Arctic peoples are important members of global society,” Netro said. The survival of Arctic cultures and communities remains tied to the wildlife and landscape of the Arctic Refuge.”

A tangle of COVID-19 challenges for European churches and society: how do we begin to unknot them?

“We all miss community. But young people miss community a bit more. Our vibrant social lives before the pandemic were replaced by a reality of countless days alone at home.”

Maria Sonnleithner was reflecting on young people whose mental health has been at risk amid COVID-19, even as the strain on the caring adults and churches in their lives has grown exponentially as well.