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DiPaz exhorte à un appel international plus ferme pour que le gouvernement colombien fasse progresser la paix

Dans une lettre du 13 juillet adressée au Conseil de sécurité des Nations Unies, Diálogo Intereclesial por la Paz en Colombia (DiPaz), une plateforme interecclésiale pour la paix en Colombie, a demandé à la communauté internationale d’appeler le gouvernement colombien à reprendre la mise en œuvre de l’accord de paix et à renforcer les canaux de dialogue pour résoudre les problèmes sociétaux.

DiPaz urges stronger international call for Colombian government to advance peace

In a 13 July letter to the United Nations Security Council, the Diálogo Intereclesial por la Paz en Colombia (DiPaz), an interchurch platform for dialogue for peace in Colombia, called on the international community to urge the Colombian government to resume the full implementation of the peace agreement and strengthen channels of dialogue to resolve societal issues.

Pulling together for a living River Pardo

Areas around the River Pardo in northeastern Brazil are home to more than one million people. Included in them are traditional communities such as the quilombolas (descendants of runaway African slaves), the geraizeiros and others. Each year they see less water in their river. “This is not solely due to the reduction in rainfall. 

Brazilian city joins “water diagram” initiative headed by Swiss Church Aid

The Brazilian municipality of Juiz de Fora has approved a cooperation agreement with Swiss Church Aid (HEKS/EPER), a member of the WCCs Ecumenical Water Network (WCC-EWN), thus becoming part of an international working group that wants to contribute to good water management and management practices using a water flow diagram. The project also encompasses the city of Bern, Switzerland; Cape Town, in South Africa, and Rio Pardo de Minas, in Brazil.

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.

In Colombia, “what is happening is terribly painful”

Rev. Gloria Ulloa, World Council of Churches president for Latin America and the Caribbean, is in Cali, Colombia, with a delegation of DiPaz, the country’s main ecumenical peacebuilding platform. The group is having direct grassroots contact with the conflicts currently taking place. Ulloa and others hope to bring to light testimonies of peoples and communities usually forgotten by the big media.

Below is Ulloa's latest description on the ground.

Des organisations confessionnelles internationales exhortent le président colombien d'interrompre la spirale de la violence sans plus attendre

Le Conseil œcuménique des Églises, ACT Alliance, la Fédération luthérienne mondiale, la Communion mondiale d'Églises réformées, la Communion anglicane, le Conseil méthodiste mondial, le Conseil épiscopal latino-américain et l'Association mondiale pour la communication chrétienne ont, dans une lettre envoyée le 18 mai, exhorté le président colombien Iván Duque Marquéz à mettre fin à la spirale de la violence qui porte un préjudice terrible à la population civile.

International church-based organizations urge Colombian president to stop spiral of violence

The World Council of Churches, ACT Alliance, Lutheran World Federation, World Communion of Reformed Churches, Anglican Communion, World Methodist Council, Latin American Episcopal Council and World Association for Christian Communication, in a letter sent 18 May, urged Colombian president Iván Duque Marquéz to stop the spiral of violence that is doing terrible harm to the civilian population.

Un séminaire organisé sur le thème «Tragédie brésilienne: un risque pour notre maison commune?»

Du 4 au 6 mai, le séminaire international en ligne «Tragédie brésilienne : un risque pour notre maison commune?» a rassemblé des responsables religieux ainsi que des leaders des droits sociaux et humains et des experts renommés pour analyser de quelle manière le processus de déconstruction de la démocratie qui s’est opéré au Brésil ces dernières années a entraîné le pays dans de nombreuses crises.

WCC expresses concern about crisis in El Salvador

“It is with great concern that we are following political developments in El Salvador that undermine democracy and the rule of law in the country”, said Rev. Prof. Dr Ioan Sauca, acting general secretary of the World Council of Churches.

"We pray that the God of life will lead El Salvador to peace and justice”, added Sauca.

«Silence radio», un film sur la journaliste Carmen Aristegui, remporte le prix pour les Droits de l’Homme 2020

Le film «Silence radio», de Juliana Fanjul, a reçu le prix des Droits de l’Homme 2020, décerné par l’Association mondiale pour la communication chrétienne (WACC) et l’Association catholique mondiale pour la communication (SIGNIS).

Le long métrage documentaire dresse le portrait de Carmen Arestigui, journaliste et animatrice radio critique envers le gouvernement.  

An exercise in hoping

I’m writing this text exactly one year after Brazil declared quarantine, on 16 March. Last year we went into quarantine thinking it would only be two weeks at home, and maybe a few months of wearing masks and sanitizing our hands. I’m the first to confess that I’ve underestimated the virus. However, we all know that is not how it went. Month after month went by - the internet joked about how could it possibly be August already, when last week was March?