A Call to Decisive Action We Cannot Serve God and the Oppression of the Palestinians
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AFRICA South Africa Southern Africa
AFRICA South Africa “I think this action and call is long overdue, and I support it wholeheartedly. I will of course sign it in support and try my best to spread this message as widely as I can.” Allan Boesak, Professor of Black Liberation Theology and Ethics, University of Pretoria “I strongly endorse the call of the Palestinian Christians for justice without which there can be no lasting or genuine peace in the Middle East.” John de Gruchy, Emeritus Professor of Christian Studies, University of Cape Town, Extraordinary Professor of Theology, Stellenbosch University “We, the Council of African Independent Churches (CAIC), intend to honor and defend the rights of the Palestinian people to dignity, self-determination, and the fundamental human rights guaranteed under international law, including the right of return for Palestinian refugees. We, CAIC, reaffirm that it is time for the international community to recognize Israel as an apartheid state in terms of international law.” Bishop Thami Ngcana, on behalf of the Council of African Independent Churches for the international community to recognize Israel as an apartheid state in terms of international law. Southern Africa “The Anglican Church of Southern Africa (ACSA) has studied the Call and endorses it entirely. Palestinians have been held neckdown for decades. We cannot allow them to suffocate any further. Silence is complicit with suffocation.” Bishop Luke Pato, Anglican Bishop of Namibia, representing the Anglican Church of Southern Africa (ACSA) ASIS PACIFIC Australia “I would like -
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English Congregation 1 August 2017 [A Bulletin of the English Congregation, Aizawl, Mizoram, for private circulation only] Vol. XVI AUGUST 2017 No. 54 English Congregation 2 August 2017 CHECK IT OUT... PAGE NO. Editorial .......................................................................................................................................................... 03 A Christian Perspective On Indian Citizenship..................................................................................... 04 CHRISTIAN PARTICIPATION IN INDIA’S DEVELOPMENT: Democratization of Education in India .................................................................................................. 05 Christian Contribution to Indian Languages .......................................................................................... 06 Christian Response To Drug Abuse And HIV ......................................................................................... 07 Model Christian Contributions Towards Medical Service And Health Care ...................................08-09 PHOTOS : Cottage Meeting .................................................................................................................... 09 Mukti Mission In The Service Of Destitute Women And Girls ......................................................... 10 MUSIC : A Christian Patriotic Song....................................................................................................11-12 PHOTOS : Easter Feast ............................................................................................................................ -
2018 Congress Report
REPORT The XVI ICMDA World Congress 2018 was held from 21-26 August 2018 at Leonia Holistic Destination, Hyderabad, Telangana, India. The theme of the congress was “In The Footsteps of The Great Servant Healer”, the focus being to “Reflect-Repent- Renew”. It was inspired by the verse “A covenant to the people, A light to the nations. Isaiah 42:6”. The congress was well attended, with 847 delegates representing 86 countries. Countries Represented: NORTH AMERICA Azerbaijan Madagascar Nepal Canada Belarus Rwanda Sri Lanka United States Czech Republic South Sudan Denmark Tanzania SOUTH EAST ASIA CENTRAL France Uganda Cambodia AMERICA Georgia Indonesia El Salvador Germany WEST AFRICA Laos Guatemala Greece Benin Malaysia Honduras Hungary Burkina Faso Philippines Mexico Kazakhstan Cameroon Singapore Panama Kyrgyzstan Congo DR Thailand Netherlands Gabon Timor Leste SOUTH AMERICA Norway Ghana Brazil Portugal Niger EAST ASIA Chile Romania Nigeria China Peru Russia Togo Hong Kong Uruguay Serbia Japan Slovakia SOUTHERN AFRICA Mongolia METNA Spain Botswana South Korea Egypt Sweden Malawi Taiwan Lebanon Switzerland Namibia United Arab Ukraine South Africa OCEANIA Emirates United Kingdom Zimbabwe Australia Uzbekistan New Zealand EURASIA SOUTH ASIA Indonesia Albania EAST AFRICA Bangladesh Papua New Guinea Armenia Burundi Bhutan American Samoa Austria Kenya India 1 Report of the XVI ICMDA World Congress 2018 held from 21-26 August 2018, Hyderabad, India The Congress was organized by the International Christian Medical and Dental Association (ICMDA), Christian Medical Association of India (CMAI) and Evangelical Medical Fellowship of India (EMFI). It was held together by a 15-member National Organising Committee including Chair - Dr. Bimal Charles, General Secretary CMAI, Co-chair - Dr. -
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English Congregation 1 October 2018 [A Bulletin of the English Congregation, Aizawl, Mizoram, for private circulation only] Vol. XVII OCTOBER 2018 No. 59 English Congregation 2 October 2018 CHECK IT OUT... PAGE NO. EDITORIAL ............................................................................................................................. 03 REFLECTIONS ON ACTS 1: 8 ............................................................................................. 04 MUSIC PAGE : Hymn : Rescue The Perishing ........................................................................................ 05-06 CHRISTIAN WITNESS IN A HOSTILE WORLD ......................................................... 07-08 EXEMPLARY CHRISTIAN TESTIMONY............................................................................... 09 WITNESSING AND THE SIGNIFICANCE OF HEALING MIRACLES............................. 10 WITNESSING TO THE MONEY-MINDED ..................................................................................... 11 THE PLACE OF COUNSELLING IN WITNESSING .......................................................... 12 YOUTH PAGE : Lead by Example: A Challenge To Today’s Christian Youth (cf. I Tim 4:12) .............. 13 E.C. HAPPENINGS ............................................................................................................... 14 REMEMBERING OUR FORMER MEMBERS ........................................................................ 15 PHOTOS ........................................................................................................................ -
August-September 2016
PRIORITIES OF THE TH NCCI — YOUTH CONCERN Encouraging young people to be part of the National U Turn Ecumenical Movement. Networking with the Local Commission on YOuth - National Council of Churches in INdia and International Ecumeni- VOLUME 2, ISSUE 2 AUGUST SEPTEMBER 2016 cal partners for sponsorship and partnership. Connecting the member churches and the local youth movements with the Commission on Youth Albert Camus, a French phi- peace sons [sic] bury fathers, there, it is ours; but we must through organizing pro- losopher, author and journal- but in war fathers bury sons.” take hold of it. It is interesting grammes both at regional ist once said that “Peace is It takes a person to wonder that He says "I give you and national levels. the only battle worth waging.” how the world has really peace," then He says, "Do not The world seems to have come to understand the fact let your heart be troubled." Strengthening direct part- waging an unending war that the peace is our rightful The peace He gives has to be nerships with youth fellow- physically, in pursuit of peace inheritance. It is fundamental received and applied in our ships of the member yet unaccomplished. The and ultimate that cannot be lives. If we lay hold of the churches and Commission infamous colonial ideology of taken away from us by any promise of the very peace of „Pax Romana‟ (c. 27 B.C.E. to circumstances. Nevertheless, Christ, we will have calm, on Youth and encouraging 180 C.E.) that enforces peace how does the world give untroubled hearts, regardless them to create ecumenical through subjugation and con- peace? Does the struggle for of external circumstances. -
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Popular Christianity, Theology, and Mission Among Tanzanian Lutheran Ministers
Shepherds, Servants, and Strangers: Popular Christianity, Theology, and Mission among Tanzanian Lutheran Ministers by Elaine Christian Submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY 2017 © 2017 Elaine Christian All rights reserved Unless otherwise indicated, Scripture quotations are from The ESV® Bible (The Holy Bible, English Standard Version®), copyright © 2001 by Crossway, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. Used by permission. All rights reserved. ABSTRACT Shepherds, Servants, and Strangers: Popular Christianity, Theology, and Mission among Tanzanian Lutheran Ministers Elaine Christian This dissertation is an ethnographic description of how pastors (and other ministers) in the Northern Diocese of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Tanzania understand and carry out their ministry: How they reflect, mediate, and influence local Christian practice and identities; how theology and theologizing forms an integral part of their social worlds; and how navigating and maintaining relationships with Christian mission partnerships (including “short-term mission”) becomes an important part of their ministry. Drawing from fieldwork conducted between June 2014 and September 2015, I present an account of Christianity that adds to anthropological scholarship by emphasizing the role of theology as a grounded social practice, and considers the increasingly divergent character of Christian mission and its role in modern Tanzanian Christianity. -
For.Catholic Unity Who's in Charge? Hierarchy and the Episcopal Church
as Curriculum for.catholic Unity Who's In Charge? Hierarchy and The Episcopal Church An international conference sponsored by The Anglican Communion Institute Dallas, Texas February 5-6, 2010 Featured speakers: The Rev. William J. Abraham, PhD., Perkins School of Theology The Rev. Robert W. Pritchard, PhD., Virginia Theological Seminary The Right Rev. James Stanton, DD, Bishop of Dallas The Rev. Andrew Goddard, DPhil, Trinity College, Bristol, UK Mary Edlund, JCL, Chancellor, Catholic Diocese of Dallas The Very Rev. Philip Turner, PhD., Dean Emeritus, Berkeley Divinity School at Yale Mark McCall, Esq. Communion Partners presents "The Communion Partner Vision" The Rev. Dr. Charles Alley, Rector, St. Matthew's Church, Richmond The Right Rev. Bruce MacPherson, Bishop of Western Louisiana Location: Church of the Incarnation 3966 McKinney Ave., Dallas, Texas 75204 Registration: US$125 {Fri-Sat, lunches included), $50 (Sat only) To register/for information about the conference see URL: www.anglicancommunioninstitute.com (Paypal available) OR E-mail to: [email protected] OR US Mail registration to: Anglican Communion Institute P.O. Box 7544, Beaumont , Texas 77726 THE IMNG CHURCH this week November 29, 2009 news 4 -sojourning Anglicans Praise Vatican's Plan . - 4 · ""--Swedish -Consecration Received Coolly -e_ssay A---- Cross as Curriculum for Catholic Unity BY CHRISTOPHER WELLS books 10 Days of Fire and Glory ... Living in God's Creation catholic voices 10 Wounded Church - ~-- - ; letters ::;'i} ;~ieiriterpreting _the Canons other departments 13 Sunday's Readings 14: People & Places THE LMNG.CHORcH magazine-is{>ublisbed 'Dyta.e ·nMng'Chm-eh ltotm:d.a.tlon, fnc. tb,.e.hl!:doxfo,.nnssi'C>ti 'o'f the 'Living Church Foundation tsto promote · andsupport Catholic Anglicanism -within.°"the Epi~copal Churc_h. -
Acquiescence in Apartheid
Resistance to and Acquiescence in Apartheid St. Paul’s Theological College, Grahamstown, 1965-92 Henry Mbaya Resistance to and Acquiescence in Apartheid: St. Paul’s Theological College, Grahamstown, 1965-92 Published by AFRICAN SUN MeDIA under the SUN PReSS imprint All rights reserved Copyright © 2018 AFRICAN SUN MeDIA and the author This publication was subjected to an independent double-blind peer evaluation by the publisher. The author and the publisher have made every effort to obtain permission for and acknowledge the use of copyrighted material. Refer all enquiries to the publisher. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any electronic, photographic or mechanical means, including photocopying and recording on record, tape or laser disk, on microfilm, via the Internet, by e-mail, or by any other information storage and retrieval system, without prior written permission by the publisher. Views reflected in this publication are not necessarily those of the publisher. First edition 2018 ISBN 978-1-928357-82-7 ISBN 978-1-928357-83-4 (e-book) https://doi.org/10.18820/9781928357834 Set in Futura Lt BT 10/13 Cover design, typesetting and production by AFRICAN SUN MeDIA SUN PRESS is a licensed imprint of AFRICAN SUN MeDIA. Scholarly, professional and reference works are published under this imprint in print and electronic format. This publication may be ordered directly from: www.sun-e-shop.co.za africansunmedia.snapplify.com (e-books) www.africansunmedia.co.za Contents Acknowledgements i Foreword iii Thabo Makgoba, Archbishop of Cape Town Abbreviations v Introduction 1 Chapter 1 5 Training Anglicans in the Context of Apartheid 1965-71 Chapter 2 41 Conflicting Theological, Ideological and Spiritual Orientations? 1972-75 Chapter 3 77 Through the Strong Winds of Change 1976-78 Chapter 4 109 Racially Segregated Amenities 1977-81 Chapter 5 137 “A ‘Normal’ Community in an ‘Abnormal’ Society” 1982-83 Chapter 6 169 “A Little Pocket of Normality”? 1983-85 Chapter 7 193 Living through the ‘Kairos’ 1986-92 Conclusion 235 St. -
Hidden Presences in the Spirituality of the Amaxhosa of the Eastern Cape and the Impact of Christianity on Them
View metadata, citation and similar papers at core.ac.uk brought to you by CORE provided by South East Academic Libraries System (SEALS) HIDDEN PRESENCES IN THE SPIRITUALITY OF THE AMAXHOSA OF THE EASTERN CAPE AND THE IMPACT OF CHRISTIANITY ON THEM P T MTUZE Submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the Masters degree in Theology (Spirituality) by coursework and thesis in the Department of Religion and Theology, Rhodes University, South Africa. Supervisor: Canon Luke Lungile Pato October 1999. Co-supervisor: Professor Felicity Edwards ABSTRACT This thesis is an attempt to reopen the debate on the whole question of inculturation in Southern Africa especially in light of the fact that we are now in a multi-lingual and multi-religious state. It is an attempt to rehighlight the plight of the spirituality of the amaXhosa people over the last century when missionary and imperial onslaught relegated it to the doldrums. This plunged the amaXhosa in a crisis that has left them directionless, to put it mildly. This is said because the total onslaught destroyed their self-respect and their identity and begs the question as to whether their acceptability to God was contingent on renouncing their culture especially the hidden prsences - Qamata, the living-dead and the notion of evil spirits. It is precisely because of these misconceptions regarding African culture and spirituality that the thesis has a strong expository and apologetic bias primarily aimed to address, and put into proper perspective, the significance of the Supreme Being, the living-dead and the evil spirits in African culture. -
100 Years of Social Pensions the Challenge of Global Poverty and Experiences of the Social Protection System in Sweden
100 years of social pensions The challenge of global poverty and experiences of the social protection system in Sweden Conference October 1-2, 2013 Essinge conference centre, Stockholm ne hundred years ago protection as a human right and Sweden became the first about the role that conditionality Ocountry in the world to might play – have also been faced guarantee an old age pension for all by Sweden over the last hundred citizens. The pension formed one years. In addition, all countries need of the first building blocks in the to take a stand on whether various development of the Swedish social transfers should be universal or protection system. meanstested, what is an accept Social protection is currently high able cost and how the system on the global agenda for sustain should be financed. able development, with a growing With 100 years of experience to recognition of the role it can play draw on, what lessons can we learn in reducing poverty. A number of from Sweden’s social protection countries in Asia, Africa and Latin system and what challenges does America have successfully imple it face today? Beyond this, what mented cash transfers such as child role can social protection play in grants, social pensions and public the global fight against poverty? works. These programmes have had How can development cooperation multiple impacts, from improved catalyse the expansion of social nutrition and health outcomes protection systems? to increased school attendance. The intersection of social protec Despite this, only a small propor tion, poverty reduction and social tion of the world’s population has development is a popular topic, but access to social protection. -
What Happened Last Night in Sweden? to Preach Without Fear In
Anders Göranzon: What happened last night in Sweden? What happened last night in Sweden? To preach without fear in a Scandinavian Folk Church, in a situation when populist nationalism rises in the context of migration. Anders Göranzon Abstract This article focuses on the situation in the Church of Sweden, one of the largest Lutheran churches in the world. The links between the state and the church in Sweden were only recently cut. Political parties still engage with church policy and form the majority of the Church Assembly as well as many local Church councils. When nationalistic parties also are involved in church policy this becomes a challenge. Homiletics is taught at the Church of Sweden Institute for Pastoral Education as part of the final, ministerial year. At the Institute we make use of North American literature by authors like Brueggemann, Lose, Tubbs Tisdale and Troeger. There are many differences between the Scandinavian and the North American contexts. This paper seeks to investigate how homiletical training in one context is carried out with the use of textbooks from another, different context. How can homiletics based on North American theologies fit into a Folk Church context? How does a North American homiletic approach encourage Swedish students to preach a prophetic word of God, without fear, in a situation when populist nationalism rises in the context of migration? How can prophetic preaching, as described by for instance Brueggemann and Tisdale, be contextualised in this situation? This article discusses when and how prophetic preaching inspired from the Biblical example, with its narratives and with metaphors and poetic language, should be used and when a more confrontational, head-on witness is needed.