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La preasamblea de la Red Ecuménica de Defensa de las Personas con Discapacidad comenzó el 29 de agosto en Karlsruhe (Alemania), con la incorporación al movimiento ecuménico de nuevas personas con discapacidad.

The Ecumenical Disability Advocates Network Pre-Assembly kicked off 29th August in Karlsruhe, Germany with an induction of new persons with disabilities into the ecumenical movement.

Cuatro preasambleas del Consejo Mundial de Iglesias (CMI) están a punto de reunirse y atraerán a cientos de personas ansiosas por compartir, en un espacio seguro, sus reflexiones honestas y desafíos vitales. Las preasambleas que se celebrarán son: la Preasamblea de los pueblos indígenas, el Encuentro Ecuménico de la Juventud, la Preasamblea de la Red Ecuménica de Defensa de las Personas con Discapacidad y la Preasamblea de “Una comunidad justa de mujeres y hombres”.

Four World Council of Churches (WCC) pre-assemblies are about to convene, drawing hundreds of people eager to, in a safe space, share their honest reflections and life challenges. The pre-assemblies include Indigenous Peoples, Ecumenical Youth Gathering, Ecumenical Disability Advocates Network, and Just Community of Women and Men.

A webinar held 22 October gave space for persons with disabilities to share their reflections. Entitled “From Lamentation to Transformation,” the event, first in a series of webinars on COVID-19 perspectives, highlighted hope through stories, practical support, and social change as experienced by persons with disabilities.

Beate Fagerli, World Council of Churches (WCC) assembly coordinator, answers the most frequently asked questions about the upcoming WCC 11th Assembly in 2021.

The headline for a newspaper letter extolling a man who lived what he espoused, engaging with shunned people often unable to effectively communicate verbally, said, "Jean Vanier was a living saint".

A Swedish WCC working group which met in Stockholm on 4 September has called on Swedish churches to use ‘The Gift of Being: Called to be a Church of All and for All’ as a resource for including persons with disabilities in church life.

“Macha's contribution to improving the lives of blind, partially sighted and other persons with disabilities both in Africa and around the world was remarkable,” said Dr Penny Hartin, CEO, World Blind Union, upon learning the death of Dr Elly Macha.

Meeting from 17 to 24 June, the newly reconstituted Commission on Faith and Order of the WCC has begun to define its principal trajectories for ecumenical study and common activity from 2015 until the next WCC Assembly in 2020.

En una reunión que tuvo lugar del 17 al 24 de junio, la recientemente reconstituida Comisión de Fe y Constitución del CMI empezó a definir sus principales trayectorias en los ámbitos del estudio ecuménico y la actividad común, desde 2015 hasta la próxima Asamblea del CMI en 2020.

Members of the WCC's Ecumenical Disability Advocates Network met in the Netherlands to develop a new statement with the working title "Gift of Being: Called to be a Church of All and for All". The new document is founded on the premise that persons with disabilities experience marginalization both in societies and in the church communities themselves.

In a recent meeting in the Netherlands, theologians and ecumenists came together to give renewed consideration to an interim statement titled A Church of All and for All, first produced in 2003 by the Ecumenical Disability Advocates Network and the WCC’s Commission on Faith and Order.