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A young Christian from the United Kingdom has said that the young generation needs the older generation to work with them to tackle the world's problems, as neither group can do it alone.

The world needs young leadership very badly because those from the older generation have not delivered, the head of the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) has told young Christian, Jewish, and Muslim participants at the Emerging Peacemakers Forum.

Es brauche Wachsamkeit, um die gegenseitige Akzeptanz der Menschen aufrecht zu erhalten und Katastrophen wie den Genozid 1994 in Ruanda und den Krieg zwischen Russland und der Ukraine zu verhindern, so ein UN-Sonderberater vor einer Gruppe junger christlicher, jüdischer und muslimischer Erwachsenen.

Messages of hope related to climate change and global conflicts from renowned global peacemakers have inspired young Christians, Jews, and Muslims at the Emerging Peacemakers Forum, held 5-14 July at the World Council of Churches (WCC) Ecumenical Institute at Bossey. The young peacemakers have spent nearly 10 days crafting the next generation of peacebuilding. 

The forum is organized in partnership between the Muslim Council of Elders, the WCC, and the Rose Castle Foundation.

„Frieden ist nicht selbstverständlich“, vernahm eine Gruppe junger christlicher, jüdischer und muslimischer Erwachsenen von einer Frau, deren Vater den Holocaust überlebte. Außerdem betonte sie die Notwendigkeit, miteinander zu sprechen und sich gegenseitig zuzuhören.

Eine Frau, die mit jungen Menschen in Kenia arbeitet – meistens junge Männer, die einmal schreckliche Verbrechen begangen haben –, hat eine Gruppe junger Menschen christlichen, jüdischen und muslimischen Glaubens zu Tränen des Mitgefühls und der Freude gerührt, als sie über ihre harte Erziehung berichtete und wie sie junge Erwachsene dabei unterstützt, der Gewalt zu entsagen und sich der Gemeinschaft zuzuwenden.

Vigilance is needed to sustain people's acceptance of one another to prevent aberrations such as the Rwanda genocide in 1994 and the Russian-Ukraine war, a UN special adviser has told a group of young Christians, Jews, and Muslims.

A woman who works with youth in Kenya—young people who once turned to heinous crimes—had a group of young Christians, Jews, and Muslims weeping tears of compassion and joy as she recounted her tough upbringing and how she helps turn those youth from crime to community.

Peace is not a given these days, an international group of young Christians, Jews, and Muslims has heard from a woman whose father survived the Holocaust as she stressed the need to talk and listen to one another.

Shamsa Abubakar Fadhil, a recipient of the Zayed Award for Human Fraternity, is a household name in peace building and community mobilisation in the Kenyan coastal region.

A “ban plan” outlining what the world needs to do to eliminate nuclear weapons is the “strongest condemnation of nuclear threats by a multilateral UN conference,” said Jennifer Philpot-Nissen, programme executive for Human Rights and Disarmament for the WCC Commission of the Churches on International Affairs. 

At the end of a 9 February press conference — which followed a long day of videoconference meetings — Dr Agnes Abuom and Rev. Prof. Dr Ioan Sauce fielded a surprise question: what first got them involved in the ecumenical movement?

130 jüdische Freiwilligen haben in der vergangenen Woche in palästinensischen Dörfern 400 Olivenbäume gepflanzt und setzen ihre Arbeit auch nach mindestens einem gewalttätigen Angriff fort.

One hundred and thirty Jewish volunteers planted 400 olive trees last week in Palestinian villages, continuing their work even following at least one violent attack.