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Churches' attitudes and responses to racism today will come under scrutiny at a conference, organized by the World Council of Churches (WCC) in partnership with the United Church of Christ (UCC) and Dutch missionary and diaconal agency Kerk in Actie , in Cleveland, Ohio, United States, 26-29 August.

On International Women's Day, 8 March, ecumenical leaders have urged churches to work to end violence against women in its many forms across the world.

By Ranjan Solomon (*)

Gesetze, die Frauen in Indien fördern und schützen sollen, greifen nicht und die Regierung unterlässt es, auf ihre Anwendung zu drängen – sagen Aktivistinnen.

by Karen Burke (*)

Die Plenartagung der Kommission für Glauben und Kirchenverfassung, die vom 7. bis 13. Oktober in Kolympari, Kreta, stattgefunden hat, ist zu Ende gegangen. Die Teilnehmenden entdeckten immer mehr thematische Zusammenhänge zwischen den drei derzeitigen Studienprozessen "Wesen und Auftrag der Kirche", "Quellen der Autorität" und "Ethische Urteilsbildung in den Kirchen." Sie plädierten für mehr "Ekklesiologie von unten", die die Erfahrungen des Kircheseins in einem bestimmten Kontext einschließt, anstatt die Kirche theoretisch von oben zu beschreiben.

Laws designed to empower and protect women in India have been described as “toothless” by activists who have spoken out against the government’s failure to implement them.

by Theodore Gill (*)

The Faith and Order Plenary Commission meeting, which took place in Kolympari, Crete, 7-13 October 2009, has come to an end. Participants noted an emerging coherence between the three current studies on Nature and Mission of the Church, Sources of Authority and Moral Discernment in the Churches. A tendency to give more space to an "ecclesiology from below" based on the concrete experience of "being church in a particular context", rather than describing the church theoretically "from above", was encouraged.

Über ein Jahr nach dem Angriff einer Gruppe hinduistischer Extremisten beginnen die christlichen Bewohner eines Dorfes im ostindischen Bundesstaat Orissa, ihr Leben und ihre Gemeinschaft wiederaufzubauen.

Christian villagers are rebuilding their lives and relationships more than a year after being attacked by a group of Hindu extremists in the eastern Indian state of Orissa.

As the United Nations has made a small but significant step forward towards declaring caste-based discrimination a human rights violation, Indian Christian leaders have called on the churches to confess that the caste system is still being practised also within them.

Ein Team von Kirchenvertretern/innen aus Europa, Lateinamerika, Afrika und Asien wird Kirchen, ökumenischen Organisationen und zivilgesellschaftlichen Bewegungen in Indien vom 21.-27. September einen Besuch abstatten.

A team of church representatives from Europe, Latin America, Africa and Asia will pay a solidarity visit to churches, ecumenical organizations and civil society movements in India from 21 to 27 September.