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By George Arende (*)

Peace and human security in Somalia and South Asia were key concerns addressed on Friday 16 September by the Executive Committee of the World Council of Churches (WCC) at its meeting in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. The Executive Committee, a governing body of the WCC, meets twice per year to set policy and transact business.

Friedensaktivisten/innen aus aller Welt legten am zweiten Tag der Internationalen ökumenischen Friedenskonvokation (IöFK) in Kingston (Jamaika) erschütternde Erfahrungsberichte über Gewalt und Unterdrückung ab, brachten aber zugleich ihre feste Hoffnung zum Ausdruck, dass die Bewegung für den Frieden die Oberhand gewinnen wird.

As peace advocates from around the world relayed heartrending stories of violence and oppression, they also expressed their ongoing hope that a movement of peace will prevail during the proceedings of the second day of the International Ecumenical Peace Convocation (IEPC) being held in Kingston, Jamaica.

“Dalit studies are driven not by a sense of fascination with the phenomenon of caste but by social responsibility and moral commitment for social transformation. This will elevate the empirical to the universal”, said Prof. Gopal Guru from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, in his keynote address at an international colloquium on “Caste, Religion and Culture” in Kochi, Kerala, India.

An international colloquium on Caste, Religion and Culture will be held in Cochin, Karala, India, 1-4 May. The event will be held at the Renewal Centre in Cochin and is being sponsored by the World Council of Churches (WCC), the National Council of Churches in India, the Centre for Social Studies and Culture and the Student Christian Movement of India.

von Maurice Malanes (*)

By Maurice Malanes (*)

Naming casteism as "sin, apostasy and rebellion against God", churches in India have committed themselves to serve as "zero tolerance zones" for caste-based discrimination. They also called for Lent 2011 to be "a time of purging caste" from Christian communities.

Has Dalit theology reached an impasse since its early burst of creative energy in the late eighties and early nineties? This is the question that a new publication entitled "Dalit Theology in the Twenty-First Century: Discordant Voices, Discerning Pathways" seeks to address.

What does it mean for the church to call for peace in a world where many forms of racism persist? This is one of the questions a World Council of Churches (WCC) conference on racism tried to answer.