Churches plan peace conference in Asia
-13/12/05
Representatives of the Historic Peace
Churches plan peace conference in Asia
-13/12/05
Representatives of the Historic Peace Churches (Church of the Brethren, Quakers, and Mennonites) met in Indonesia last week to consider organizing an Asian peace consultation in 2007. Participants in the meeting came from Indonesia, India, Japan, Australia, and the United States.
Following the launching of the Decade to Overcome Violence, an international programme of the World Council of Churches (WCC), an invitation came from the WCC Central Committee in 1999 for the Historic Peace Churches [Christian pacifists] to share their insights and experience with the wider church as a component of the Decade.
An Asian conference would be the third such gathering for the peace churches. In 2001, a consultation was held in Switzerland focusing on “Peace in a Globalized World.”
A second meeting took place in Nairobi, Kenya, in 2004, with emphasis on “Making Peace Theology Relevant to the Conflicts in Africa.”
The proposed consultation for Asian churches would most likely focus on peacemaking among inter-religious communities.
An ad-hoc committee was appointed to carry forward the idea of the Asian Conference towards 2007. Information on this event and previous Historic Peace Church gatherings may be found at www.peacetheology.org.
The Church of the Brethren is a Christian denomination committed to continuing the work of Jesus peacefully and simply, and to living out its faith in community. The denomination is based in the Anabaptist and Pietist faith traditions and is one of the three Historic Peace Churches.
It celebrates its 300th anniversary in 2008. It counts about 130,000 members across the United States and Puerto Rico, and has missions and sister churches in Brazil, the Dominican Republic, Haiti, and Nigeria.
The peace churches are the primary sponsors of Christian Peacemaker Teams (CPT), who have come to prominence through the tragic kidnapping of four of their associates in Iraq on 26 November 2005.
[Also on Ekklesia: Muslims urge release of Christian peacemakers missing in Iraq; Christians aid Muslim nonviolence initiative in Iraq; Peacemakers to monitor Palestinian elections;
Former Guantanamo Bay detainees call for release of Christian peace workers; Anti-war campaigner flies to Iraq to plead for Christian peacemakers; Christian peacemakers and the peace movement; Christian peacemakers have evidence of ‘secret prisons’ in Iraq; Blessed Are the Peacemakers; Advent hope for Iraq, captives and Limbaugh; UN secretary general calls for release of all Iraqi captives]
Churches plan peace conference in Asia
-13/12/05
Representatives of the Historic Peace Churches (Church of the Brethren, Quakers, and Mennonites) met in Indonesia last week to consider organizing an Asian peace consultation in 2007. Participants in the meeting came from Indonesia, India, Japan, Australia, and the United States.
Following the launching of the Decade to Overcome Violence, an international programme of the World Council of Churches (WCC), an invitation came from the WCC Central Committee in 1999 for the Historic Peace Churches [Christian pacifists] to share their insights and experience with the wider church as a component of the Decade.
An Asian conference would be the third such gathering for the peace churches. In 2001, a consultation was held in Switzerland focusing on “Peace in a Globalized World.”
A second meeting took place in Nairobi, Kenya, in 2004, with emphasis on “Making Peace Theology Relevant to the Conflicts in Africa.”
The proposed consultation for Asian churches would most likely focus on peacemaking among inter-religious communities.
An ad-hoc committee was appointed to carry forward the idea of the Asian Conference towards 2007. Information on this event and previous Historic Peace Church gatherings may be found at www.peacetheology.org.
The Church of the Brethren is a Christian denomination committed to continuing the work of Jesus peacefully and simply, and to living out its faith in community. The denomination is based in the Anabaptist and Pietist faith traditions and is one of the three Historic Peace Churches.
It celebrates its 300th anniversary in 2008. It counts about 130,000 members across the United States and Puerto Rico, and has missions and sister churches in Brazil, the Dominican Republic, Haiti, and Nigeria.
The peace churches are the primary sponsors of Christian Peacemaker Teams (CPT), who have come to prominence through the tragic kidnapping of four of their associates in Iraq on 26 November 2005.
[Also on Ekklesia: Muslims urge release of Christian peacemakers missing in Iraq; Christians aid Muslim nonviolence initiative in Iraq; Peacemakers to monitor Palestinian elections;
Former Guantanamo Bay detainees call for release of Christian peace workers; Anti-war campaigner flies to Iraq to plead for Christian peacemakers; Christian peacemakers and the peace movement; Christian peacemakers have evidence of ‘secret prisons’ in Iraq; Blessed Are the Peacemakers; Advent hope for Iraq, captives and Limbaugh; UN secretary general calls for release of all Iraqi captives]