8th assembly/50th anniversary

padare
8-11 December 1998

Friday/Vendredi/Freitag/Viernes, 11 December/Décembre/Dezember/Diciembre
TENTATIVE SCHEDULE/PROGRAMME PROVISOIRE/VORLÄUFIGES PROGRAM/PROGRAMA PROVISIONAL

THEME 1: JUSTICE AND PEACE

10:45-12:15

Work for Peace
5-1: Alternatives to Violence: An Experiential Method for Handling Conflict Creatively and Building Peaceful Community Based on Respect and Caring
A model for creative conflict resolution, based on affirmation, community-building and communication.
English Alternatives to Violence Project, Canada Statistics, Classroom 003

Discrimination
12-1: Racism and Racial Justice in Britain and Ireland
Information and description of strategies adopted by grassroots organizations and the churches to work towards racial justice.
English Churches Commission for Racial Justice, United Kingdom Statistics, Classroom 001

Discrimination
20-1: The Churches: Their Lesbian and Gay Members
Lesbian and gay people exist at all levels within churches and perform all functions; experience of overt and covert discrimination; how to enhance mutual understanding and reconciliation in Christ.
English European Forum of Lesbian and Gay Christian Groups Maths, Classroom 004

Work for Peace
40-1: Nonviolent Intervention on Behalf of Human Rights and Constructive Response to Conflict
A large-scale nonviolent resistance movement against the nuclear-power industry has developed over the past 20 years in the Wendland region of Germany. The use of international peace and human-rights teams as a nonviolent response to violent situations.
English Centre for Education and Networking in Non-violent Action: Kurve Wustrow, Germany Maths, Classroom 008

Discrimination
64-1: Gender for Men
Men in society and in the church have long considered gender issues as women's issues. Men need to reverse this thinking and recognize their role and responsibility to work towards a more gender-just society.
English Ecumenical Support Services, Zimbabwe Maths, Classroom 005

Human Rights
72-1: Religious Persecution: Continuing the Conversation
Christians in the USA have been engaged in a public discussion of religious persecution and have advocated varying actions by the US government.
English Presbyterian Church (USA): Presbyterian Peacemaking Program Maths, Lecture Theatre

Work for Peace
73-1: Spirit and Actions for Reconciliation in Bethlehem
Expanding nonviolent conflict resolution in the West Bank and Gaza. The future of nonviolence and the challenges facing the process of building justice and peace in the Middle East. Wi'am is part of the Peace to the City Campaign.
English Wi'am: Palestinian Conflict Resolution Centre, West Bank, Palestine Physics, Lecture Theatre I

Work for Peace
77-1: Hague Appeal for Peace Time to Abolish War!
As civilization has largely delegitimized although not completely eliminated slavery, colonialism and apartheid, let the 21st century be the first century without war. Join The Hague Appeal for Peace!
English Hague Appeal for Peace, Switzerland Physics, Lecture Theatre II

Friday, 11 December - 14:30-16:00

Work for Peace
5-1: Alternatives to Violence: An Experiential Method for Handling Conflict Creatively and Building Peaceful Community Based on Respect and Caring
A model for creative conflict resolution, based on affirmation, community-building and communication.
English Alternatives to Violence Project, Canada Statistics, Classroom 003

Human Rights
6-1: Making a Difference/Death Penalty
To share experiences and provide participants with skills and techniques for successful campaigning against the death penalty, especially in countries where the abolitionist movement is weak or non-existent.
Drama/musical presentation English Amnesty International, United Kingdom Beit Hall, Beit Theatre

Discrimination
25-1: Turn to God, Rejoice in Hope: Lesbian Lives in Church and Society
Living together as women is a normal and honourable form of living. Sexual orientation is one aspect of this. Lesbians are women created in God's image.
English Lesben und Kirche, Germany Maths, Classroom 004

Work for Peace
29-1: Survivor-Offender Mediation Initiatives in South Africa
Experiences growing out of the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission's work, especially the work of the Survivor-Offender Mediation Initiative, which brings together survivors and offenders to take practical steps towards reconciliation, building on a restorative justice model.
English Mennonite World Conference, USA Statistics, Classroom 001

Human Rights
44-1: Someone You Know
Debate on minority rights in Zimbabwe.
English NGO Coordinating Committee for UDHR 50th Anniversary Celebrations, Zimbabwe Maths, Lecture Theatre

Discrimination
45-1: Women of Colour Organizing for Transformation
Women of colour have played vital roles in organizing communities all over the globe in the face of escalating crises. Their work is fundamental to community-organizing movements which seek to bring the biblical mandate of fullness of life to all people.
English Women of Colour Organizing for Transformation, USA Maths, Classroom 005

Discrimination
63-1: Black and White Christian Partnership
The need to tackle racism in church through education and other means, in a spirit of partnership, so that people and structures can change.
English Centre for Black and White Christian Partnership, United Kingdom Maths, Classroom 008

Work for Peace
79-1: Overcoming Violence in Rio de Janeiro: Voluntary Civilian and Peace Service
Presented by the coordinating organization and youth currently in the service.
English Viva Rio, Brazil Physics, Lecture Theatre I

THEME 2: UNITY AND SPIRITUALITY

Friday, 11 December 09:00

Prayer
12-2: Prayer Summit
Prayer Summit is an ecumenical ministry serving the Christian church by seeking to bring spiritual renewal to the body of Christ Catholic, Protestant and Orthodox through prayer and spiritual awakening to the nations of the world through repentance, reconciliation and renewal.
English Prayer Summit, USA Chapel, 10:00 to 12:00 and 14:00 to 18:00

Friday, 11 December - 10:45-12:15

Koinonia
3-2: Koinonia: The Nature and Experience of What It Means for Our Community to Be "Church"
The Universal Fellowship of Metropolitan Community Churches offers an example of the compatibility of Christianity and homosexuality through ministry principally to the gay, lesbian, bi-sexual, transgendered community. The implications of that ministerial outreach will be discussed as "koinonia": the nature and experience of what it means for our community to be church". There will also be a discussion of UFMCC's role in the ecumenical family.
English Universal Fellowship of Metropolitan Churches, USA Beit Hall, Beit Theatre

Zeitgenössische SpiritualitätG/Contemporary Spirituality
17-2: Sho Sho Loza: Ein spirituelles Musik- und Tanzerlebnis/A Spiritual Experience of Music and Dance
Acht Mitglieder der Gruppe Urknall aus Hannover (Deutschland) spielen seit 1990 neben ihren eigenen Kompositionen auch traditionelle afrikanische Musik, die gerade junge Zuhörer und Zuhörerinnen inspiriert und ihnen eine spirituelle Erfahrung vermittelt. Die Gruppe hat eine Begegnung mit Musikern des Harare Ethnic College of Music geplant, um den ökumenischen Geist der Veranstaltung zu unterstreichen./Since 1990 eight members of the group Urknall, from Hanover, Germany, have performed traditional African music as well as their own compositions, inspiring young audiences and leading them towards a spiritual experience. The group has planned an encounter with musicians from the Harare Ethnic College of Music to strengthen the ecumenical spirit.
Deutsch, English Urknall Akademie e.V., Germany Llewellyn Hall, Classroom II Ergeschoss/ground

Contemporary Spirituality
32-2: Expression of Spirituality: The Indigenous Peoples of the Philippines Indigenous People, although discriminated against, can be proud of their identity, rich culture, music and dance, and creativity in contributing to the betterment of society.
Dance English Episcopal Church in the Philippines Llewellyn Hall, Classroom III ground

Friday, 11 December - 14:30-16:00

Koinonia
1-2: Interchurch Families in the Ecumenical Movement
The Joint Working Group between the Roman Catholic Church and the WCC has recommended as one of its priorities for the next period a study of the ecclesiological implications of the sacrament of marriage. Interchurch families, in which one partner is Roman Catholic and the other a member of another Christian communion, "live in their marriage the hopes and difficulties of the path to Christian unity" (Pope John Paul II). Such families have formed associations in many countries.
English Association of Interchurch Families, United Kingdom Llewellyn Hall, Classroom I ground

Koinonia
27-2: Mushrooming of Religious Groups vs True Christianity
The mushrooming of churches in Africa has caused a growing division in the church, impeding its ability to fulfil its mission of proclaiming the good news. The most alarming element is the condemnation of other churches instead of preaching God's word.
English FOCCESA, Zimbabwe Llewellyn Hall, Classroom III ground

Friday, 11 December - 16:30-18:00

Unity
5-2: The Porvoo Communion
The 1996 the Porvoo Agreement brought the Anglican churches of Britain and Ireland and the Nordic and Baltic Lutheran churches into a communion of churches intended to give more credible witness and strengthen common mission in northern Europe, as a stage on the way to the full visible unity of all churches. The theological basis of the agreement and its effect on the lives of these churches.
English Church of England on Behalf of the Porvoo Communion, United Kingdom Commerce, Lecture Theatre I

La Espiritualidad Contemporánea
6-2: Espiritualidad, cultura e identidad
Los indígenes son personas religiosas con una gran cultura. También poseen una profunda espiritualidad y han sido heridos en su fuero interno.
Español CLAI PANCTD (Secretaria Continental para la Pastoral Aborigen/Negra y contra Toda Discriminación), Nicaragua Llewellyn Hall, Classroom II planta baja

Koinonia
8-2: Deaconesses, Deacons and Diaconal Ministers around the World Today/Diakonissen, Diakone/Diakoninnen und diakonische Dienste in aller Welt
The role of the diaconate as both means for the church to do its service in the world and a way to equip the whole people of God for that service is being rediscovered/renewed in churches throughout the world. Theology and models of diaconate in the various communions around the world./In der ganzen Welt entdecken/erneuern die Kirchen die Rolle des Diakonats als Möglichkeit für die Kirchen, ihren Dienst in der Welt zu erfüllen, und als Weg, das ganze Gottesvolk für diesen Dienst zuzurüsten. Theologisches Verständnis und Modelle des diakonats in den verschiedenen Gemeinschaften in aller Welt.
English, Deutsch Diakonia World Federation of Diaconal Associates and Communities, USA Llewellyn Hall, Classroom I ground/Erdgeschoss

Contemporary Spirituality
15-2: Experimental Evidence that Prayer Works
To emphasize the importance of prayer regardless of a person's religious faith.
English Sukyo Mahikari, Japan Llewellyn Hall, Classroom III ground

Zeitgenössische Spiritualität/Contemporary Spirituality
17-2: Sho Sho Loza: Ein spirituelles Musik- und Tanzerlebnis/A Spiritual Experience of Music and Dance
Acht Mitglieder der Gruppe Urknall aus Hannover (Deutschland) spielen seit 1990 neben ihren eigenen Kompositionen auch traditionelle afrikanische Musik, die gerade junge Zuhörer und Zuhörerinnen inspiriert und ihnen eine spirituelle Erfahrung vermittelt. Die Gruppe hat eine Begegnung mit Musikern des Harare Ethnic College of Music geplant, um den ökumenischen Geist der Veranstaltung zu unterstreichen./Since 1990 eight members of the group Urknall, from Hanover, Germany, have performed traditional African music as well as their own compositions, inspiring young audiences and leading them towards a spiritual experience. The group has planned an encounter with musicians from the Harare Ethnic College of Music to strengthen the ecumenical spirit.
Tanz/dance Deutsch, English Urknall Akademie e.V.Germany Beit Hall, Beit Theatre

Koinonia
38-2: Are We Ready to Celebrate Easter Together?
To inform a wider audience of the problem of two different dates for the celebration of Easter, to discuss possible solutions and to explore ways to push the churches to act in this question.
English Syrian Orthodox Church of Antioch Llewellyn Hall, Lecture Theatre

Friday, 11 December - 20:00-21:30

Contemporary Spirituality
11-2: A Spirituality for Today
The experience of the Iona Community as an ecumenical Christian community and movement seeking radical ways of living out the gospel in today's world, and the renewal of both church and society, with a special focus on action for social and political change and more participative and relevant ways of worshipping. This workshop reflects on Iona's experience and explains its perspective on spirituality.
English Iona Community, Scotland, United Kingdom Llewellyn Hall, Classroom I ground

Unity/Einheit
16-2: Being and Becoming One the Experience of United and Uniting Churches/Eins-Sein und Eins-Werden die Erfahrung vereinigter und sich vereinigender Kirchen
A panel to reflect the varied experiences of churches which are or are seeking to become united and to draw out the central ecclesial and practical issues raised by those experiences./Podiumsgespräch über die verschiedenen Erfahrungen von Kirchen, die vereinigt sind oder dabei, sich zu vereinigen, und Herausstellung der damit verbundenen zentralen kirchlichen und praktischen Probleme.
English, Deutsch United and Uniting Churches Liaison Group, United Kingdom Commerce, Lecture Theatre I

Unity
28-2: Christian Unity and Witness
Christians of the Middle East continue to witness to the resurrected Lord in the land where he was born, crucified and raised from the dead. Christian presence in the Arab world at the threshold of the year 2000.
English Middle East Council of Churches Llewellyn Hall, Classroom II ground

Contemporary Spirituality
30-2: Celebrating the Differences
Plurality is a reality of life; indigenous spirituality should be a way of life; celebration of diversities should be the ethos of life.
Drama/dance English National Council of Churches in India Llewellyn Hall, Classroom III ground

THEME 3: MOVING TOGETHER

Friday, 11 December - 10:45-12:15

Las Iglesias Avanzan Juntas/ Churches Moving Together
7-3: Juntos en la Misión/Together in Mission
El camino hacia la unidad en Cristo por medio de la misión y el servicio que permiten aunar los esfuerzos de las iglesias en la acción./The way to unity in Christ through mission and service which bring churches together in action.
Español, English Federación Argentina de Iglesias Evangélicas Teaching and Learning Centre, Seminar Room A 2o/2nd

Providing Space
11-3: La jeunesse en Africa
Rapprochement de jeunes de confessions et cultures différentes pour mieux se préparer à affronter les défis du monde d'aujourd'hui.
Français Jeunesse étudiante catholique, Côte d'Ivoire Teaching and Learning Centre, salle C 2e

Churches Moving Together
15-3: The Face of Faith in the USA
Community ministries and local ecumenical councils.
English US State and Local Ecumenical Executives Colleague Group Teaching and Learning Centre, Conference Room

Being Partners
34-3: A New Approach to the North-South Church Relationship
English Church of Sweden: Diocese of Uppsala Humanities, Lecture Theatre Seminar II

Friday, 11 December - 14:30-16:00

Churches Moving Together
1-3: Emerging Asian Theologies
Some of the issues discussed in the recent congress of Asian theologians and the theological round-table.
English Christian Conference of Asia, China Humanities, Lecture Theatre Seminar I

Being Partners
8-3: Communicating in Africa
Electronic information exchange and networking among ecumenical organizations and faith communities in Africa.
English FOCCESA/ EDICESA: Ecumenical Documentation and Formation Centre for Eastern and Southern Africa, Zimbabwe Internet Café

Churches Moving Together
15-3: The Face of Faith in the USA
Inter-religious councils: what, why and how? Two case studies.
English US State and Local Ecumenical Executives Colleague Group Teaching and Learning Centre, Conference Room

Providing Space
43-3: Church and Gender
Struggles and experiences of women in the Philippines for their rightful place in the church.
English Episcopal Church in the Philippines Humanities, Lecture Theatre Seminar II

Friday, 11 December - 16:30-18:00

Providing Space
1-3: Christian Youth in Asia
Reading the Bible through Asian eyes: THEMEs and concerns emerging from Bible studies with young people in Asia.
English Christian Conference of Asia, China Humanities, Lecture Theatre I

Las Iglesias Avanzan Juntas/ Churches Moving Together
7-3: Juntos en la Misión/Together in Mission
El camino hacia la unidad en Cristo por medio de la misión y el servicio que permiten aunar los esfuerzos de las iglesias en la acción./The way to unity in Christ through mission and service which bring churches together in action.
Español, English Federación Argentina de Iglesias Evangélicas Teaching and Learning Centre, Seminar Room A 2nd/2o

Being Partners
23-3: Young in the Local and Global Church
Christian youth organizations in Sweden and South Africa differences and similarities among their churches.
Music/discussion/exh English Church of Sweden: Youth, in Cooperation with ELCSA Youth Organization Teaching and Learning Centre, Seminar Room C

Being Partners
28-3: The Relevance of Communication Today
Christian communication: Indigenous People and the media.
English World Association for Christian Communication, United Kingdom Humanities, Lecture Theatre III

Discerning the Way
32-3: A Forum of Christian Churches and Ecumenical Organizations
All assembly languages Visitors programme Humanities, Lecture Theatre II

Being Partners
34-3: A New Approach to the North-South Church Relationship
English Church of Sweden: Diocese of Uppsala Humanities, Lecture Theatre Seminar II

Churches Moving Together
50-3: Face to Face
Meet with women leaders in the churches and the ecumenical movement: an occasion for questions and dialogue.
English Visitors programme Teaching and Learning Centre, Conference Room 2nd

Churches Moving Together
50-3: Face to Face
Meet with... (name/names to be announced): an occasion for questions and dialogue.
Language to be announced Visitors programme Commerce, Lecture Theatre II

THEME 4: EDUCATION AND LEARNING

Friday, 11 December - 10:45-12:15

Women's Learning
1-4: Women's Empowerment: Need of the Hour
The empowerment of women who have dropped out of school through adult literacy programmes and skill training for production and marketing of different products.
Puppet show English All India Association for Christian Higher Education Crop Sciences, Lecture Theatre II

Interfaith Learning
6-4: Religion Fuelling Conflict or Fostering Peace?
How religion is used to fuel conflicts and how it can serve in conflict-resolution: testimonies of how inter-religious groups in various places are working to foster good relationships and communal harmony.
English Caucus of Guests of Other Faiths at the Assembly Education, Classroom II ground

Women's Learning
44-4: African Women Doing Theology
400 African women have been writing together since 1989. Three new books will be launched, and future plans shared.
English Circle of Concerned African Women Theologians Education, Classroom I ground

Friday, 11 December - 14:30-16:00

Ecumenical Learning
2-4: Theological Literacy for the 21st Century
Discussion of what constitutes theological literacy and video and exhibit on the work on this by the BTI, especially regarding religion and ecology, religion and reconciliation, and general theological education.
English Boston Theological Institute, USA Education, Classroom III ground

Interfaith Learning
15-4: Introducing the Work and Concerns of Dalit Solidarity Peoples to the World Family
English Dalit Solidarity Peoples, India Education, Classroom II ground

Ecumenical Learning
38-4: "Let the People Speak" Philosophy
Drama English Zimbabwe Council of Churches Crop Sciences, Lecture Theatre I

Friday, 11 December - 16:30-18:00

Ecumenical Learning
23-4: Bible Societies Serving the Churches
Helping participants to know about their own national Bible societies as a resource for the churches' programmes, concerns and issues.
English United Bible Societies, USA Education, Lecture Theatre

Ecumenical Learning
36-4: Integrative Theological Education
The essential relationship between experience and learning, theoretical and practical work, different academic disciplines, life in the world and life in the church, lay people and ordinands in theological education at all levels.
English Partnership for Theological Education, United Kingdom Education, Classroom III ground

Women's Learning
40-4: No Boundaries to Compassion?
To revisit the meaning of diakonia from the perspective of women, challenging stereotypes and offering new approaches.
English Gender and Diakonia Ecumenical Working Group, United Kingdom Education, Classroom I

Friday, 11 December - 20:00-21:30

Women's Learning
14-4: Created in the Image of God Gender Awareness in the Church Today Information for adult women in diakonia.
English United Methodist Church-Global Ministries, Women's Division, USA Education, Classroom I ground

Women's Learning
21-4: The Culture of Silence among Rural Christian Women in Tamil Nadu
The reality of rural Christian women in Tamil Nadu and their struggles; possibilities of cultural change among women; the theatre work of RIDE.
English Rural Institute for Development Education, India Crop Sciences, Lecture Theatre II

Ecumenical Learning
26-4: Popular Method to Read the Bible
Portuguese Centro Ecuménico de Estudios Bíblicos, Brazil Crop Sciences, Lecture Theatre I

Ecumenical Learning
30-4: Biblical Experience in Latin America
A new approach to reading the Bible within the Latin American context: cultural diversity, participatory methodology.
Portuguese Rebilac: Rede Bíblica Latino-Americana, Brazil Education, Classroom III ground

Apprentissage de l'oecuménisme
33-4: Education en Afrique traditionnelle et moderne
L'éducation missionnaire a été inadaptée et inadéquate aux réalités des milieux ruraux de nos pays africains. Elle a favorisé l'exode rural, l'infidélité en milieu urbain et la prolifération des sectes, ainsi que le manque de combativité. L'incompréhension mutuelle des pensées et l'intolérance interculturelle sont à la base de la crise politique. D'où l'importance d'un nouveau programme d'éducation corrective fondée sur la théologie et le développement holistique liée à la philosophie et à l'éthique communautaire.
Français Organisation des Eglises d'institution africaine, Congo Education, salle IV rez

Ecumenical Learning
41-4: Impact of Family Empowerment towards Building Sustainable Democracy in Southern Africa
To raise awareness that democracy will always be hijacked by a few or misunderstood by the majority unless it is internalized and practised by all starting at the level of the household.
English Pan-African Family Empowerment Foundation, Zimbabwe Education, Lecture Theatre

THEME 5: MISSION AND WITNESS

Friday, 11 December - 10:45-12:15

Gospel and Culture
3-5: Hope and Metanoia through Asian Art
A message of renewal presented through Christian art as an expression of joy and hope through Asian culture, with an explanatory lecture by Masao Takenaka.
English Asian Christian Art Association, Japan Education, Lecture Theatre

Health
4-5: Training Health Professionals for Community-determined Health Programmes
Training health professionals to assist communities in determining their own health priorities and how to address them takes us away from the Northern medical model to a healing model which allows glimpses of the kingdom of God.
English Institut panafricain de santé communautaire, Kenya Crop Sciences, Lecture Theatre I

Health
6-5: Health of Indian Indigenous Women
The position of Indian indigenous women in relation to health; creating gender sensitivity in maintaining the good health of women through sharing, caring, understanding and cooperation.
English Action Collective of Outcastes and Oppressed for Progress, India Crop Sciences, Lecture Theatre III

Mission
20-5: Ecumenical Renewal of the Congregation the German Experience
Ecumenical renewal as a method and a way under the guidance of the Holy Spirit, drawing on the experience of one German congregation and indicating the role of international exchange.
English Ecumenical Renewal of Congregation Rhineland-Westphalia, Germany Education, Classroom IV ground

Mission
25-5: From Bondage to Freedom
The tragic lives of sexually oppressed women and unskilled slum dwellers in India results from imprisonment in oppressive structures. The workshop explores the new life experience given to the women and children in the slums and brothels of Bombay through the ministry of the Mar Thoma Church.
English Mar Thoma Syrian Church, India Commerce, Lecture Theatre III

Friday, 11 December - 14:30-16:00

Salud/Health
12-5: Campesinos y la necesidad de salud y seguridad/Farm Workers and the Need for Health and Safety. Gracias a CATA, los campesinos se han dado cuenta de que para poder promover la justicia económica y social de su comunidad, tienen que ayudar a que la comunidad más amplia tenga una nueva comprensión de los factores sociales que influyen en su vida. El objetivo de CATA es promover un diálogo sobre la forma en que la iglesia puede favorecer el cambio al tratar de alcanzar esta meta./Through CATA, farmworkers have realized that in order to promote economic and social justice for their community, they must help the larger community develop a new understanding of the social factors impacting on them. CATA's purpose is to promote a dialogue about how the church could encourage change in achieving this goal.
Español, English CATA, USA Crop Sciences, Lecture Theatre II

Mission
16-5: A quoi sert la CEVAA?
L'action missionnaire commune, une chance et un défi pour l'Eglise mondiale.
Français Communauté évangélique d'action apostolique, France Education, salle IV rez

Health/Gesundheit
18-5: The Healing Ministry of the Church AIDS and the Churches the Church as a Healing Community/Das heilende Amt der Kirche AIDS und die Kirchen die Kirche als eine heilende Gemeinschaft
Studies and educational resources on health, healing, wholeness./ Studien- und Informationsmaterial über Gesundheit, Heilen und Ganzheit.
English, Deutsch DIFAM: German Institute for Medical Mission/Deutsches Institut für ärztliche Mission Crop Sciences, Lecture Theatre III

Health
32-5: Vulnerable Groups: Women and Youth
Reproductive health issues affecting vulnerable groups: women, children and youth; female mutilation.
English World Health Organization: African Regional Office, Zimbabwe Commerce, Lecture Theatre III

Gospel and Culture
41-5: Evangelium und Kultur am Beispiel Jugendkultur/English???
Deutsch, English Deutsche Delegation zur Weltmissionskonferenz in Salvador de Bahia, Germany Education, Lecture Theatre

Health
49-5: Contact Health Is the Church's Mission
Contact, the magazine of the mission and evangelism team, has been a vital inspiration to health workers worldwide.
English Christian Medical Association of India Education, Classroom I ground

Friday, 11 December - 16:30-18:00

Health
10-5: 100 Years of Christian Medical Witness
The Uganda experience: 100 years of Christian medical witness in the face of socio-economic dynamics and differing cultural norms, values, traditions and ethics.
English Uganda Protestant Medical Bureau Education, Classroom IV ground

Mission
30-5: Missions' Ministry in India
Presentation of Missions' Ministry in India with particular reference to Friends Missionary Prayer Band. Missionary work, indigenous fund-raising, church-planting, church growth, transformation of people groups, church-mission relationships and helping these churches to move from maintaining themselves to missions.
English Friends Missionary Prayer Band, India Crop Sciences, Lecture Theatre I

Health
32-5: Vulnerable Groups: Women and Youth
Reproductive health issues affecting vulnerable groups: women, children and youth; female mutilation.
English World Health Organization: African Regional Office, Zimbabwe Commerce, Lecture Theatre III

Health
36-5: Churches' Response to HIV/AIDS in Zimbabwe
Coordination of programmes, training, advocacy and justice issues regarding HIV/AIDS.
English Heads of Denominations AIDS Committee, Zimbabwe Crop Sciences, Lecture Theatre III

Friday, 11 December - 20:00-21:30

Health
48-5: Interfaith Initiatives in Health and Healing
Religious pluralism, interfaith dialogue on women's health and healing, economic justice as related to women's health and healing.
English AACC and Procmura, Kenya Commerce, Lecture Theatre III

THEME 6: SOLIDARITY

Friday, 11 December - 10:45-12:15

Globalization
6-6: Reorientation of NGOs (Ecumenical Organization) in Facing Modern Challenges
Given the context of globalization, NGOs need to build capacity in order to respond to modern challenges drawing resources from religions and cultures, sharing experiences from sustainable communities.
English Asian Resource Foundation, Thailand Agriculture, Lecture Room I

Uprooted
12-6: Churches' Solidarity with Uprooted People throughout Europe
Challenges of integration in Europe (INTO Project): churches must be in solidarity with refugees, asylum-seekers and migrants in a context of undermining of legal protection, inadequacy of state and civil society infrastructures and marginalization of uprooted peoples.
English European Churches' Working Group on Asylum and Refugees, Switzerland Chemistry, Lecture ground

Uprooted
14-6: No Place Called Home
Discussion, based on the video No Place Called Home, of the history of ecumenical response to uprooted people and the challenges for churches in the future.
English Global Ecumenical Network on Uprooted People, Switzerland Chemistry, Lecture 2nd

Uprooted
39-6: Uprooted People in Egypt
An historical and present-day survey of the situation in Egypt, specifically Cairo, and a description of the work of various churches who serve the uprooted.
English Ecumenical Coordinating Committee on Uprooted People in Egypt Agriculture, Seminar DG 25/26

Theology of Life
40-6: The San (Bushmen) of Today
The Indigenous People of southern Africa, the Bushmen, are in a serious struggle for survival. Land rights of Indigenous People, their spiritual ties to the land and environment, should be recognized and supported by the church.
English Kaaba Kaaba dis Kerkesa, Botswana Chemistry, Lecture 1st

Development
43-6: A Fish in the Drain
Traditional religions are not supportive of women's liberation; politicians are exploiting women; social change agents are helpless; funding agencies are unable to bring about the desired change. Women's liberation emerges through awareness.
Drama/dance Tamil (with English translation) Women's Organisation for Liberation and Development, India Agriculture, Seminar DL18

Development
57-6: Prospects of Sustainable Mobility Worldwide
Current development of mobility and its environmental, economic, social and cultural impact. Rethinking transportation implications for society, politics, economy and churches.
English Evangelische Akademie Bad Boll, Germany Agriculture, Lecture Room II

Globalization
63-6: Globalization its Impact on the Caribbean
Economic wellbeing, particularly of rural families; cultural life-style; increased marginalization of agriculture.
English Grenada Community Development Agency Agriculture, Conference Room

Children
69-6: Child Prostitution around the World
An overview presented by persons from Asia and Africa who are involved in the ECPAT programme to end child prostitution, child pornography and child trafficking.
English ECPAT International, New Zealand Engineering, D19

Children
75-6: Guidelines on the Approach to Street Children
An exchange of information on work with street children in order to reinforce work already being done and to invite other churches to open their doors to children at risk.
English Evangelisch-Lutherische Kirche Thüringen, Germany Engineering, D18

Friday, 11 December - 14:30-16:00

Development
5-6: (1) Uprooting Poverty (2) Building Democracy
Innovative and effective methods of poverty eradication and civic education, utilizing the intellectual, spiritual, artistic and material resources of deprived communities to the maximum. Community publishing methods have been found widely relevant and fruitful in many countries.
English Africa Community Publishing and Development Trust, Zimbabwe Physics, Lecture Theatre II

Globalization
8-6: Globalization and Urban Poor Women
How the current globalization trend adversely affects poor women in urban areas, how this contributes to greater economic exploitation of women and the escalation of domestic violence and other gender-related issues, and what the churches can do.
English Centre for Development and Women's Studies, India Agriculture, Lecture Room I

Environment/Medio ambiente
10-6: ECTWT: Tourism Is Our Concern!/¡El turismo es asunto nuestro!
The negative impacts of mass tourism including land expropriation, environmental damage, proliferation of golf courses and casinos, threats to the culture of Indigenous People, human rights violation./ Los negativos efectos del turismo en masa, en particular, la expropriación de tierras, el perjuicio al medio ambiente, la proliferación de campos de golf y de casinos, las amenazas a la cultura de los indígenes, las violaciones de los derechos humanos.
English, español Ecumenical Coalition on Third World Tourism, Barbados Chemistry, Chemistry Lecture 2do.

Environment
32-6: The European Ecumenical Environmental Network
An opportunity to share information and experiences on the work of the network of ecumenical groups, focusing on environmental challenges.
English Conference of European Churches Agriculture, Seminar DL18

Debt
47-6: A Debt-free Start for a Billion People
The cancellation of the unpayable debts of the world's poorest countries as a form of jubilee for the year 2000.
English Jubilee 2000 Coalition UK Agriculture, Conference Room

Debt
55-6: Uganda's Experience in the HIC
The struggle Uganda has gone through to attain debt relief.
English Uganda Debt Network Chemistry, Lecture 1st

Globalization
66-6: Spirituality of Indigenous Peoples Threatened by Mining and the Abuse of Their Ancestral Land
English Cordillera Peoples Alliance, Philippines Agriculture, Lecture Room II

Uprooted/Desarraigados
67-6: Networking Workshop on Migration and Migrants Rights/Taller de formación de redes sobre migración y derechos de los migrantes
English, español International Migrants Rights Watch Committee, Switzerland Agriculture, Seminar DG25/26

Children
87-6: Children at Risk: Is the Church Responding?
By the year 2000 nearly one third of the world's population will be children at risk (orphans, street children, those suffering from abuse). Meeting the needs of these children and sharing God's love with them is a major challenge for the church worldwide.
English Viva Network, United Kingdom Engineering, D18

Friday, 11 December - 16:30-18:00

Desarrollo
2-6: Participación de la Mujer en la Organizacion Comunal
Mi programa de vida personal y de acción comunitaria, son los lapiceros con los cuales escribimos la historia de nuestra comunidad.
Español Instituto Tierra y Mar, Perú Physics, Lecture Theatre I

Environment
3-6: Work on Environmental Concerns in Africa
A community-based approach to environmental concerns in Africa.
English University of Nairobi, Kenya Agriculture, Seminar DL18

Development
15-6: A Church in Society: A New Politics. A New Social and Economic Order
Experiences of ZCC-JPR programme in rekindling interest in democracy-building and empowerment of civil society to enhance participation in all spheres of life, especially in politics, social and economic issues. How the church in Zimbabwe is striving to create new advocacy initiatives to offer popular input into the nation's economic policies and the development of models of popular alternative governance.
English Zimbabwe Council of Churches: Justice, Peace and Reconciliation Agriculture, Lecture Room II

Theology of Life
19-6: Dalit Women and Their Untold Miseries and Role
Empowerment, participation and solidarity in the context of untouchability, discrimination and isolation; village women; the need for unity among Dalit women and with women at the global level; participation and equality with men.
Music/drama/dance/poetry Tamil, English Liberation Movement for Women, India Physics, Lecture Theatre II

Environment
20-6: From Global Warming to Global Justice: A New Challenge for the Churches
English OIKOS, Netherlands Chemistry, Lecture Room ground

Development
25-6: The Culture of Silence among Rural Christian Women in Tamil Nadu
The reality of rural Christian women in Tamil Nadu; possibilities of cultural change among women. RIDE's theatre work.
English Rural Institute for Development Education, India Chemistry, Lecture 2nd

Uprooted
82-6: Living in Limbo: Asylum and Marginal Inclusion
The world refugee crisis and an analysis of the current and future situation in Europe. An Asian perspective and challenge to Christians for solidarity.
English Council for Christian Tamils of the United Kingdom Agriculture, Lecture Room I

Development
88-6: Banking with the "Unbankable": Zeclof's Experience
The marginalized are credit-worthy.
English Zimbabwe Ecumenical Church Loan Fund Agriculture, Seminar DG 25/26

Globalization
89-6: Asian Crisis: Globalization Aftermath: Repercussions on the Filipino Peasantry and the People as a Whole
Trade liberalization has further exacerbated social inequity. Domestic economy is controlled by global monopolies. More than half the Philippines' 70 million people can barely afford basic necessities.
English Resource Centre for People's Development, Philippines Agriculture, Conference Room DG40

Development
97-6: Solidarity
CASA responds to 70-80 disasters a year, and initiates sustainable development projects.
Workshop English CASA-Church's Auxiliary for Social Action, India Chemistry, Lecture 1st



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