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EYCE - Newsletter: Thursday, June 28, 2007
Issue: 45

Dear ,

Greetings from the Ecumenical Youth Council in Europe.

Summer is coming with a good news EYCE's Summer Training "HIV/AIDS and Young Migrants" has been granted and will be held in Romania from the 19 to 26 of August 2007. This event will be a step forward in the EYCE campaign "HIV can touch everyone - Ecumenical Youth fighting HIV/AIDS". The Summer Training will be held in Romania as hosting country as EYCE already has worked there on HIV/ AIDS issues in 2006 and would like to continue this valuable work. Even if there are no statistics that can inform about the percentage of youth migrants coming from or arriving in Romania affected from such a disease at the end of 2003, there were 6,500 people living with HIV/AIDS in Romania.

You will find the application with all the related information soon on our web-site.

But EYCE is also looking beyond the summer and we can already now advertise for EYCE's seminar 2007 which will be held from 9th – 16th December 2007 in Greece. The theme of the seminar is "“Monologue or dialogue – inter-religious dialogue meets fundamentalism”. The seminar will focus on the question of fundamentalism and extremism, trying to address a rather difficult topic: while it is easy to dialogue with those who are willing to dialogue, dialogue must also reach out to those who are sceptical or against dialogue. To realise this event we are working together with our partners FEMYSO, the Middle East Council of Churches (MECC), and the National Youth Council of Greece (ESYN).

On EYCE's website you can find much information on the recent EYCE Training Course “Transforming Conflict – Healing Memories”, held from 14th - 21st May in Feketic, Serbia (see the link below). On www.eyce.org you can also find the daily reports of the participants and the pictures from the EYCE Study Session: “Religious Rights – Human Rights? Developing an inter-religious concept of Human Rights and Human Rights Education”, held from 11th to 18th March 2007 EYCE held a Study Session in the European Youth Centre in Strasbourg, France.

I would like to inform you about the Call for applications for the position of Regional Secretary for WSCF Europe which will be vacant as of 1st October 2007. The World Student Christian Federation (WSCF) therefore seeks applications for this challenging task based at the European Regional Office in Budapest, Hungary. If you are interested please have a look at the web page www.wscf-europe.org. The deadline for applications is July 10, 2007. Interviews will take place on the 4th of August 2007.

I hope that all of you will have a good and beautiful summer - and hopefully someone of you will spend one week of the summer with EYCE in Romania.

With very best wishes from Brussels,

Mariangela Fadda
EYCE General Secretary

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EYCE Training course - "HIV/AIDS and young migrants" - Romania 19 to 26 of August 2007
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Refugee Resettlement to new EU Member States: Improved integration prospects essential for lasting success
Representatives of Churches, NGOs, governments and UNHCR from the new EU member states in Central and South East Europe met for a seminar in Prague to discuss refugee resettlement to the region. The seminar was part of the project “Refugee resettlement: broadening the basis in Europe”, which is coordinated by the Churches´ Commission for Migrants in Europe (CCME).

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Churches to gather for international conference on Middle East peace, launch of new advocacy forum
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Talking Faith – a documentary film
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Daily reports from the EYCE Study Session “Religious Rights - Human Rights? Developing an inter-religious concept of Human Rights and Human Rights Education"
You can read the daily reports now! Or you can have a look into our picture gallery of EYCE's Study Session “Religious Rights - Human Rights? Developing an inter-religious concept of Human Rights and Human Rights Education", European Youth Centre in Strasbourg, 11th - 18th March 2007.

“Transforming Conflict – Healing Memories” - EYCE training course for youth leaders and young adults in Feketic, Serbia
From 20th to 27th May 30 young people came together in Feketic (Serbia) to learn about conflict transformation.
This event was part of EYCE’s activities in the framework of the European Youth Campaign “All different – All equal” – one of the working priorities of EYCE during 2006 and 2007.

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Meetings & Seminars:

Event Date: Jun 30, 2007 - Jul 01, 2007
Meetings - Core Operation Meeting:
Meeting of representatives from the Executive Committee and the EYCE office
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Event Date: Jul 26, 2007 - Jul 30, 2007
Activities - EEA3 Youth Delegates Meeting:
EEA3 Youth Delegates Meeting - Training for young delegate at the Third European Ecumenical Assembly
Find out more.

Event Date: Aug 02, 2007 - Aug 05, 2007
Meetings - Executive Committee Meeting:
Executive Committee Meeting - Geneva
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Event Date: Aug 17, 2007 - Aug 18, 2007
Meetings - EYCE IPC Meeting - Training Course:
EYCE IPC Meeting - Training Course "HIV/AIDS and youg migrants"
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Event Date: Aug 19, 2007 - Aug 26, 2007
Activities - EYCE Training course:
EYCE Training course - "HIV/AIDS and young migrants" - Romania 19 to 26 of August 2007. The aim of the training course will be equip youth leaders and young people with the necessary tools and practical skills in order to raise awareness in the field if HIV/AIDS education and on the impact of HIV/AIDS on young migrants’ lives from different points of view.
Find out more.

Event Date: Sep 04, 2007 - Sep 09, 2007
Meetings - Third European Ecumenical Assembly (EEA3):
The Third European Ecumenical Assembly (EEA3), to take place in Sibiu (Romania) from 4th to 9th September 2007, will gather the 2,100 official delegates of the Churches, bishops' Conferences and ecumenical organizations as well as 400 guests. However, EEA3 is a 'pilgrimage', aiming at involving an as great a number as possible of persons and communities in Europe in different ways. The fact that many are contributing to this path of reconciliation is encouraging, as is the fact that in various countries initiatives of great significance have already been carried out or are being planned.

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