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Today we want to offer you another great opportunity to participate in ecumenical project and experience ecumenical spirit in a very practical setting – through the work camps offered by Ecumenical Youth Services!
Ecumenical Youth Services is an international volunteer program in Germany. EYS was founded in the 1950s in the GDR and is now administered by the Office for Evangelical Children and Youth Work in Berlin-Brandenburg-schlesische Oberlausitz.
The work camps organised by EYS provide an opportunity for young people (age 18 to 26 – in exceptional cases from 16 years) from all over Europe to meet and work together in an international context on meaningful, socially relevant projects. Read on →
EYCE links the Campaign to Promote Ecological Justice with global actions
An EYCE representative participated on a meeting of World Council of Churches (WCC) Working Group on Climate Change which came together to plan and synergize next steps in climate change advocacy. The meeting hosted by the Institute of Theology and Ecology of the Orthodox Academy of Crete in Kolympari, Greece took place from 1st to 3rd October 2012. “Participation in the meeting helped EYCE to link its activities regarding ecological justice to global initiatives beyond (…) Read on →
EYCE calls for support of the MOs in lobbying for an independent Youth in Action Programme
On the 23rd of November 2011 the European Commission presented its Communication “Erasmus for all: the EU Programme for Education, Training, Youth and Sport” that details its vision for the EU budget in the field of youth and education, which is foreseen to be a substitute for several programmes, including Youth in Action. Many of you already know that it is the youth programme of the EU, supporting non-formal education, and that the current YiA programme is only running until the end of 2013. From 2014 onwards, a new programme will be implemented, which will run until 2020. Read on →
Norway’s churches at center of country’s efforts to heal after attacks
Source: Ecumenical News International, by Oivind Ostang
Trondheim, 29 July 2011 (ENInews)–A Norwegian bishop addressing the recent bombing and shooting attacks in his country said Norway has “countered this insane terrorism by demonstrating love and solidarity.”
“We have brought out a social capital we maybe even did not know was there. We must rebuild our trust in human beings as fellow human beings,” said Church of Norway Bishop Tor Singsaas of Nidaros at the opening of the annual St. Olav Festival in Trondheim on 28 July. Read on →
Christians and churches encouraged to continue working on common date for Easter
The general secretary of the World Council of Churches, the Rev. Dr Olav Fykse Tveit, has urged Christians to give this year’s celebration of Easter a clear ecumenical profile and to work for a common date of Easter for the future, noting that this year it falls on the same day 24 April for both eastern and western traditions.
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