Category: EYCE News
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EYCE ExCo meets in Brussels, Belgium
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The Executive Committee (ExCo) of the Ecumenical Youth Council in Europe (EYCE) met for their first meeting after election at EYCE’s 38th general Meeting October 2011. The ExCo meeting was held from 23rd – 26th of February 2012 in EYCE’s Office in Brussels, Belgium. In order to establish mutual understanding and develop a common working…
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CALL FOR INTERNATIONAL PLANNING COMMITTEE: “Taking Steps Towards an Ecologically Responsible Society. Links between ecology, economy and politics”
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In the year 2011 EYCE successfully launched its Campaign to Promote Ecological Justice in order to address the issues of ecological justice among young Christians in Europe. The thematic work so far focused on the theological and political aspects of the issues and was outlined with a variety of interesting activities, among them a training…
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UPCOMING EYCE EVENT: “Human Rights for everyone? Right! A training course for young Europeans to overcome racism and discrimination against ethnic minorities”
Human Rights Education (HRE) with young Christians in Europe has always been important for EYCE. In its work EYCE has always an underlying aspect of HRE – either addressing religious rights, the rights of migrants in Europe, or human rights in relation to economic justice, and finally the rights of young people to express their…
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EYCE Christmas greeting
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in EYCE NewsDear members & partners of EYCE, dear friends! Do you know when the hour has come? Christians in the early stages of Christianity were eagerly anticipating the coming of the Lord and the end of the world they lived in so that God’s new creation would come into being. Time has moved on since then…
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European Christian and Muslim Youth show a good example of interreligious dialogue and dialogue with secularism
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From 4th December to 11th December 2011 thirty five young people from Europe and beyond, Christians and Muslims, from different traditions and national backgrounds gathered in the European Youth Centre Budapest, Hungary, for an Interreligious Study Session “Secularism and Religions: Working Together for a Common Europe” which was organised by the Ecumenical Youth Council in…
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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…