The Rev. Jennifer Leath is a member the World Council of Churches Joint Consultative Group with the Pentecostals and ECHOS, the WCC commission of youth. She is a member of the African Methodist Episcopal Church in the USA and identifies herself as âa Black American who lives in solidarity with those in the African Diaspora and all those who experience oppression, these are they who capture my heart.â Leath was one of the speakers at the 2011 WCC Central Committee plenary on âEcclesiological Landscapeâ, where she shared a strong testimony on the issue of youth and ecumenical movement. She was interviewed by Marcelo Schneider.
âThere is no theological reflection that does not take place in Godâs vulnerable world and in the midst of the joy and suffering of ordinary people,â said the Rev. Dr Olav Fykse Tveit in his report to the first meeting of the World Council of Churches (WCC) Central Committee that he has addressed as general secretary.
Natividad Llanquileo is a young woman from the Mapuche people, an indigenous group that makes up some 4 percent of the Chilean population. In late November, she visited Geneva â seat of the United Nations Human Rights Council and other UN bodies â to inform the international organizations about the ongoing negotiations between the representatives of the Mapuche political prisoners and the Chilean government.
Despite having a constitution which does not allow discrimination and a proactive government working for the integration of the marginalized parts of society, violence and discrimination persist in some parts of India.
War-torn Sri Lanka is to receive the first of a series of ecumenical "living letters" teams which will visit Christian communities facing situations of violence in different regions of the world in the run up to the 2011 International Ecumenical Peace Convocation being organized by the World Council of Churches.