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The World Council of Churches’ Conference on World Mission and Evangelism met in Arusha, Tanzania, from 8-13 March 2018.

The World Council of Churches’ Conference on World Mission and Evangelism met in Arusha, Tanzania, from 8-13 March 2018.

The Most Rev. Brian Farrell, secretary of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity, presented Pope Francis' address to the Conference on World Mission and Evangelism.

A message for the Mission and Evangelism Conference in Athens

We bring you greetings from all the Heads of Churches in Jerusalem and their various communities as you gather to consider the next stage in the work of Mission and Evangelism of the Christian Churches.

This Cross is a token of our love and prayers that God will richly bless all of you and guide your deliberations. It was made by Christian craftsmen in Bethlehen, whose very livelihoods are in danger because of the on-going situation in the Holy Land.

Mensaje a la Conferencia Mundial sobre Misión y Evangelización, Atenas

Los representantes de todas las iglesias de Jerusalén y de sus diversas comunidades saludamos a los reunidos para considerar la próxima fase en el trabajo de Misión y Evangelización de las iglesias cristianas.

Esta Cruz es una prenda de nuestro amor y nuestras oraciones para que Dios les bendiga abundantemente a todos ustedes y guíe sus deliberaciones. Fue elaborada por artesanos cristianos de Belén, cuyo mismo sustento está en peligro por la actual situación en Tierra Santa.

The present document is the result of a study process started in response to strong suggestions made during the 2002 meeting of the WCC Central Committee to the three staff teams on Faith & Order, Interreligious Relations, Mission & Evangelism and their respective commissions or advisory bodies. The question of the theological approach to religious plurality had been on the agenda of the WCC many times, reaching some consensus in 1989 and in 1990. In recent years, it was felt that a new approach to this difficult and controversial issue was needed.

El presente documento es el resultado de un proceso de estudios iniciado en respuesta a urgentes sugerencias realizadas durante la reunión de 2002 del Comité Central del CMI a los tres equipos del personal de Fe y Constitución, Relaciones y Diálogo Interreligiosos y Misión y Evangelización, así como a sus respectivas comisiones u órganos consultivos. La cuestión del enfoque teológico de la pluralidad religiosa ha figurado muchas veces en el orden del día del CMI, llegándose a cierto consenso en 1989 y 19901. En los últimos años, se ha considerado necesario un nuevo enfoque de esta difícil y controvertida cuestión.

Study document adopted by the Commission on World Mission and Evangelism (CWME), 2000. Published in: IRMJan/April 1999, pp.109-127.

Éste es el primero de una serie de documentos que serán publicados a intervalos irregulares, primero en la web y, después, en versión impresa para algunos. El documento “Misión y Evangelización en la Unidad hoy” fue aprobado por la Comisión de Misión Mundial y Evangelización del CMI en 2000 como un documento de estudio para ser utilizado durante la preparación de la próxima conferencia de misión mundial.

I have been asked to share in this Conference, on the eve of Pentecost, some experiences and reflections of a participant in the Ecumenical Accompaniment Programme in Palestine and Israel (EAPPI) of the World Council of Churches.

I will do this with regards to:

Whether and how our current discourse on and quest for reconciliation in many societies around the world can be related to the situation in Palestine-Israel. As well as an interpretation of the ministry of the EAPPI in the light of concerns for reconciliation.

Se me ha pedido que comparta en esta conferencia, que se celebra en vísperas de Pentecostés, algunas de las experiencias y reflexiones de un participante en el Programa Ecuménico de Acompañamiento en Palestina e Israel (PEAPI) del Consejo Mundial de Iglesias.

Version adopted by the CWME Commission (edited 19 May 2005)

Por primera vez, esta conferencia CMME ha tenido lugar en un contexto predominantemente ortodoxo. Los jóvenes han desempeñado un papel especialmente destacado. Por primera vez la reunión ha incluido una delegación considerable y plenamente participante de la Iglesia Católica Romana y gran número de representantes de las iglesias y redes pentecostales y evangélicas. "Nosotros", por consiguiente, somos un grupo diverso, hemos venido de todos los rincones del mundo y de muchos contextos étnicos y culturales, hablamos muchas lenguas, y representamos a las grandes tradiciones cristianas. Nuestro tema es una oración: "Ven Espíritu Santo, sana y reconcilia".

There have been references and echoes of the theme of reconciliation in the theological discussion of mission throughout the previous century, but it is only in the last decade and a half that it has emerged as an important way of talking about Christian mission. David Bosch's 1992 magisterial work, Transforming Mission, makes no mention of it. Stephen Bevans and Roger Schroeder's recent book, Constants in Context published in 2004, on the other hand, has multiple references to reconciliation. What has happened?

Durante el pasado siglo ha habido referencias y ecos del tema de la reconciliación en el debate teológico sobre misión, pero solo en los últimos quince años se ha planteado como manera importante de hablar sobre misión cristiana. En 1992, la obra magistral de David Bosch, Transforming Mission, no la menciona. El reciente libro de Stephen Bevans y Roger Schroeder, Constants in Context publicado en 2004, contiene en cambio múltiples referencias a la reconciliación. ¿Qué ha sucedido?

As the representatives of the youth of the Christian community all around the world we now deliver you a message and urge you to listen.

How old was Jesus when he first delivered His message? According to the WCC standards He would have been considered a youth. He would have been placed into a special category, offered a pre-conference and have a lovely misspelled T-Shirt.

I was born into a Christian home, the daughter and granddaughter of Pentecostal pastors. I was brought up and educated with love and devotion, being the youngest child with two older brothers.

From childhood I was given instruction on the Christian way and learned to love Jesus. When I came to an understanding of the plan of salvation, I was baptized and received the gift of the Holy Spirit with speaking in tongues.

Diseases such as AIDS today, or leprosy in earlier times, push those suffering from them to the margins of society - or keep them within society, provided there is some guarantee that everyone else will be safe. These diseases are of such nightmarish proportions that this social logic seems well-founded. So of course it sounds like sheer absurdity when we hear the witness of the monasticism of the Egyptian desert (ca. 5th c.). Abba Agathon, we are told, was aflame with such love that he wanted to find a leper and exchange his own body for that of the leper!

Enfermedades como el SIDA hoy, o la lepra en tiempos antiguos, arrojan a los márgenes de la sociedad a quienes las padecen o los mantienen dentro de la sociedad, pero a condición de que haya cierta garantía de que todos los demás estarán a salvo. Tales enfermedades son de proporciones tan angustiosas que esta lógica social parece estar bien fundada. Por ello, parece ciertamente algo completamente absurdo escuchar el testimonio del monaquismo del desierto egipcio (ca. siglo V.). ¡Se nos dice que Abba Agathon estaba inflamado de tal amor que deseaba encontrar a un leproso e intercambiar su propia cuerpo con el del leproso!

I was born into a Christian home, the daughter and granddaughter of Pentecostal pastors. I was brought up and educated with love and devotion, being the youngest child with two older brothers.

From childhood I was given instruction on the Christian way and learned to love Jesus. When I came to an understanding of the plan of salvation, I was baptized and received the gift of the Holy Spirit with speaking in tongues.