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Nigerianos cristianos y musulmanes se reunieron el 19 de agosto para inaugurar el Centro Internacional Interreligioso para la Paz y la Armonía (ICIPH, por sus siglas en inglés). El centro está ubicado en Kaduna, donde más de 20 000 personas han perdido la vida en los múltiples conflictos que han tenido lugar en los tres últimos decenios.

PROCMURA (Programme for Christian-Muslim Relations in Africa), an ecumenical Christian organization that focuses on strengthening Christian-Muslim relations at all levels, dedicated a new central office and conference centre on 2 July in Nairobi, Kenya.

From Paris to Pakistan, Orlando to Myanmar, Iraq to Nigeria, each day witnesses conflict and violence perpetrated in the name of religion or committed against persons because of their religious identity.

De París a Pakistán, de Orlando a Myanmar, de Iraq a Nigeria, cada día somos testigos del conflicto y la violencia perpetrados en nombre de la religión o cometidos contra las personas por su identidad religiosa.

The African continent bears witness to the tragic consequences of the manipulation of religion to incite violence. Yet it is also the home of untold instances of the power of religious leaders and actors to exert a positive influence, said panellists at an international meeting in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, today.

WCC general secretary Rev. Dr Olav Fykse Tveit commended the release of the Marrakesh Declaration on the Rights of Religious Minorities in Predominantly Muslim Majority Communities.

El Secretario General del CMI, el Rev. Dr. Olav Fykse Tveit, encomió la publicación de la Declaración de Marrakech sobre los derechos de la minorías religiosas en las comunidades de mayoría musulmana.

“Christianity is not about big preaching, it’s about how you can impact somebody and add value,” says Nigerian ecumenical leader Rev. Dr Ibrahim Yusuf Wushishi, who leads a huge grouping of churches in Africa’s most populous nation.

Key stakeholders in a new inter-religious centre in Nigeria have met to plan for the centre and its work, set to launch in March 2016.

To promote strong measures against climate change, the WCC and the Geneva Interfaith Forum on Climate Change, Environment and Human Rights organized a side event to the United Nations Human Rights Council.

The WCC has strongly condemned the terror attack yesterday on the campus of Garissa University in North East Kenya. A statement issued on 3 April from the WCC headquarters in Geneva has expressed grave concern over the recent reports from Kenya with nearly 150 people massacred – including the guards protecting the campus – and almost 80 others left wounded by al-Shabaab extremists, who reportedly explicitly targeted Christian students on the basis of their faith.

El Consejo Mundial de Iglesias (CMI) ha condenado con firmeza el ataque terrorista de ayer en el campus de la Universidad de Garissa, al noreste de Kenya. En una declaración emitida desde la sede del CMI el 3 de abril se expresó suma preocupación por los informes recientes de Kenya, que daban cuenta de unas 150 personas asesinadas –incluidos los guardias de protección del campus– y de otras 80 personas heridas por los extremistas de al-Shabaab, que presumiblemente eligieron como víctimas a estudiantes cristianos, en razón de su religión.

The WCC has expressed deep shock over the attacks by extremist group Boko Haram in Nigeria, which is said to have cost the lives of more than 2,000 people, including children used in suicide bomb attacks.

El CMI ha expresado su profunda conmoción por los ataques del grupo extremista Boko Haram en Nigeria, que se dice que han costado la vida a más de 2.000 personas, incluidos los niños utilizados en ataques suicidas con bombas.

Following the attack on the Great Mosque of Kano in Nigeria on 28 November resulting in the deaths of over 100 people, the WCC general secretary Rev. Dr Olav Fykse Tveit extended sympathies for those bereaved or wounded.

Although climate change is often thought of as something external to an individual person, it is interwoven with personal spirituality, as well. This was the conclusion of a panel of three faith leaders during a session at the Interfaith Summit on Climate Change held on 22 September.

A recent meeting of representatives from ecumenical organizations, Catholic, Evangelical and Pentecostal churches in Strasbourg, France has promised to address more effectively discrimination, persecution and violence faced by Christians around the world. This theme will be explored in depth through an international consultation to be held in 2015.

En su reciente reunión en Estrasburgo (Francia), los representantes de las organizaciones ecuménicas y de las iglesias católicas, evangélicas y pentecostales han prometido abordar más eficazmente la cuestión de la discriminación, la persecución y la violencia a la que se enfrentan los cristianos en el mundo. Este tema se explorará más en profundidad durante una consulta internacional que se celebrará en 2015.

After bombings on 21 May in the northern Nigerian city of Jos, in which more than one-hundred people have been killed, “heart-felt sorrow and condolences” have been expressed in a joint statement by the WCC general secretary and Prince Ghazi bin Muhammad of Jordan.

A three-day WCC consultation has featured diverse perspectives from Asia, Africa, Middle East and Europe on the politicization of religion and how this phenomenon contributes to discrimination and persecution of religious minorities around the world.