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The World Council of Churches’ Conference on World Mission and Evangelism met in Arusha, Tanzania, from 8-13 March 2018.

The World Council of Churches’ Conference on World Mission and Evangelism met in Arusha, Tanzania, from 8-13 March 2018.

The present document is the result of a study process started in response to strong suggestions made during the 2002 meeting of the WCC Central Committee to the three staff teams on Faith & Order, Interreligious Relations, Mission & Evangelism and their respective commissions or advisory bodies. The question of the theological approach to religious plurality had been on the agenda of the WCC many times, reaching some consensus in 1989 and in 1990. In recent years, it was felt that a new approach to this difficult and controversial issue was needed.

El presente documento es el resultado de un proceso de estudios iniciado en respuesta a urgentes sugerencias realizadas durante la reunión de 2002 del Comité Central del CMI a los tres equipos del personal de Fe y Constitución, Relaciones y Diálogo Interreligiosos y Misión y Evangelización, así como a sus respectivas comisiones u órganos consultivos. La cuestión del enfoque teológico de la pluralidad religiosa ha figurado muchas veces en el orden del día del CMI, llegándose a cierto consenso en 1989 y 19901. En los últimos años, se ha considerado necesario un nuevo enfoque de esta difícil y controvertida cuestión.

Study document adopted by the Commission on World Mission and Evangelism (CWME), 2000. Published in: IRMJan/April 1999, pp.109-127.

Éste es el primero de una serie de documentos que serán publicados a intervalos irregulares, primero en la web y, después, en versión impresa para algunos. El documento “Misión y Evangelización en la Unidad hoy” fue aprobado por la Comisión de Misión Mundial y Evangelización del CMI en 2000 como un documento de estudio para ser utilizado durante la preparación de la próxima conferencia de misión mundial.

This paper offers reflections on mission as ministry of reconciliation from an ecumenical point of view and is shared by the Commission on World Mission and Evangelism (CWME) of the World Council of Churches as a document for reflection and study in preparation for the world mission conference in Athens in May 2005.

En elpresente documento se hacen reflexiones sobre la misión comoministerio de reconciliación desde un punto de vista ecuménicoy lo distribuye la Comisión de Misión Mundial yEvangelización (CMME) del Consejo Mundial de Iglesias como undocumento de reflexión y estudio en preparación de laconferencia mundial sobre misión que se celebrará enAtenas en mayo de 2005.

In a time of globalization with increasing violence, fragmentation and exclusion, the mission of the church is to receive, celebrate, proclaim and work for reconciliation, healing and fullness of life in Christ. Come, Holy Spirit, heal and reconcile

Las formulaciones empleadas en este documento deben ser entendidas como incentivos para el estudio, la reflexión y el intercambio, y no como afirmaciones de fe.

The United Evangelical Mission (UEM) is an international mission organisation, which came into being in June 1996. This is a communion of churches in three regions (Africa, Asia and Germany). It comprises of 33 churches and one institution - Anstalt Bethel in Bielefeld Germany. Among the 33 churches, 12 are from Africa, 15 from Asia and 6 from Germany. Historically these churches in Africa and Asia were former "mission fields" of Rheinish Mission, Bethel Mission and Zaire Mission - all former German mission societies. Together with the German churches linked with these mission societies, the Asian and African churches have established UEM to be an instrument for their common goal of learning from one another and sharing their faith together.

We request our churches in Korea, Japan and Germany to work locally for the remembrance of history and the transmission of insights gained thereby to the next generation.

We therefore request our congregations to work for a situation where the wrongdoing, which in some cases has only just come to light, is not repressed, and call upon them to seek solutions in cooperation with the responsible politicians and citizens' action groups.

Nos complace añadir la documentación siguiente a la serie de documentos preparatorios de la conferencia de Atenas sobre la misión mundial. En ellos se ilustra cómo una comunidad de iglesias y cuerpos misioneros han abordado temas como la reconciliación y la violencia, la sanación de la memoria, el testimonio común y la construcción de la paz.

The Conference "Mission in the 21st Century. Mission as Evangelism in Tension with Mission as Development", was held from 25 March to 1 April 2004 and was organised by the United Theological College of Zambia (UTCZ).

The purpose of the Conference was to explore and examine the commonalities and tensions between mission as evangelism and mission as development as it has been, and is being, experienced in many of the once politically colonised and the presently economically colonised countries of the south.

The goals were to understand and appreciate the gift of mission as evangelism and the gift of mission as development from a variety of contexts; to identify, and begin to understand and grapple with the complexities of the issues that we face as a world church; to hear from each of the continents, and begin to understand their focus for mission as evangelism, as we discern the relevance of this understanding for our own work and to interact with a wide variety of people and understandings of mission as evangelism.

Report and communiqué of the Urban Rural Mission Conference in Accra, Ghana, 1-7 May 2004

La Conferencia de Misión Urbana y Rural sobre "La misión desde la perspectiva de los pueblos en lucha" fue la culminación de un proceso de dos años y medio de reflexión misionológica de base que inició el Grupo Mundial de Trabajo de MUR en la reunión que celebró en Jacerei, San Pablo, Brasil, en febrero/marzo de 2002. Lo llevaron a cabo las redes regionales de MUR en África, Asia, Europa, América Latina, Oriente Medio y América del Norte. En la mayoría de los casos la reflexión se hizo en el plano de la comunidad local, en el plano nacional y en el regional. En todos los casos se elaboraron informes que resumen las principales conclusiones de las reflexiones.

The renewed concern and awareness towards healing in a new world context raises for the churches fundamental theological, missiological, ethical and pastoral questions that require critical scrutiny. My approach will be missiological. I will discuss healing as the transforming, empowering and reconciling missionary action of the church.

The present document has been prepared by a multicultural and interdenominational group of missiologists, medical doctors and health professionals. It builds upon the tradition of the WCC's Christian Medical Commission (CMC) and its most fruitful contribution to an understanding of the healing ministry of the church. This document does not repeat what remains well formulated in earlier texts of the World Council of Churches, such as the document "Healing and Wholeness. The churches' Role in Health", adopted in 1990 by the Central Committee.

El presente documento ha sido preparado por un grupo multicultural e interdenominacional de fisiólogos, médicos y profesionales de la salud. Se basa en la tradición de la Comisión Médica Cristiana (CMC) del CMI y en su contribución altamente fructífera a una comprensión del ministerio de sanación de la iglesia.

The "young missiologists consultation" was organised by the Mission and Ecumenical Formation Team of the World Council of Churches, on behalf of the Commission on World Mission and Evangelism, following a suggestion formulated during a session of the Central Committee of the WCC. 32 young theologians, coming from seven regions, many denominations and interested in missiology, learnt to know each other and worked on themes related to the forthcoming world mission conference in Athens (May 9-16, 2005).