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The WCC invites applications for a seminar on Youth and Racism Awareness in Asia, to be held in Osaka, Japan on 8-12 September 2019.

At a global conference on xenophobia in Rome, a panel of four religious leaders from, respectively, Buddhist, Christian, Hindu and Islamic traditions, spoke candidly about how xenophobia can sometimes be woven deeply into the fabric of these traditions.

En una conferencia mundial sobre la xenofobia celebrada en Roma, los cuatro dirigentes religiosos de las tradiciones budista, cristiana, hindú e islámica respectivamente que componían un panel hablaron con franqueza sobre cómo a veces la xenofobia puede estar profundamente arraigada en la estructura de estas tradiciones.

Since a small scholarship got her involved in the ecumenical movement, Sana Jennifer’s future has been staked out. She started as a bishop’s secretary and office administrator at the Diocese of Raiwind, Church of Pakistan, in Lahore three years ago and was appointed youth programme coordinator this year.

Sitting in a tent at the Souda camp, on the island of Chios in Greece, a Pakistani family of 12 recalls the lives they had in their home country. They had everything except safety. Muhammed and his wife, Asia, along with their 10 children, fled their home country in search of a place where they weren’t constantly fearing for their lives.

Muslims are a minority in Norway and a majority in Pakistan. From 12-15 March, these roles changed at a conference hosted by The Church of Pakistan in Lahore, Pakistan.

Some 200 people from Japanese churches and minority right networks as well as overseas partners, gathered for an international conference on minority issues and mission at the Korean YMCA in Tokyo.

Unas 200 personas de más de 20 iglesias japonesas y redes de defensa de los derechos de las minorías –así como una veintena de iglesias y organizaciones asociadas del extranjero– se dieron cita en una tercera Conferencia Internacional sobre Cuestiones de las Minorías y Misión, que tuvo lugar del 18 al 21 de noviembre en el YMCA coreano, en Tokio (Japón).

The nuclear attack on Hiroshima, Japan in 1945 revealed the brutality and dangerous logic of war, money and power, according to an Indigenous Anglican bishop from Canada.