Is reconciliation possible? What does forgiveness mean, and what is needed for it to happen when the offence was a frightful one and the pain seems insurmountable? These and other fundamental questions will be part of the themes treated at the next Conference on World Mission and Evangelism (CWME).
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 "When some two years ago in the West Indian State of Gujarat a train compartment was bombed and 58 people were killed by unknown offenders, local and regional newspapers published the headline '58 people killed by Muslim extremists'. As a reaction, more than 2000 innocent Muslim Indians were chased, raped and killed in a most cruel way in the week after the bombing," Siddharta, leader of Fireflies, an interreligious Ashram in Bangalore, India, recounts. "What is the magma within religion that is capable of such a brutal eruption?" he asks. |
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 “It has always been the women who have refused the decisions of the powerful and the destruction of mother earth. It has always been the women who shout out: no more mouths to suffer hunger, no more hands to remain empty, no more children to became the target of machine guns.”
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 The President of the Conference of European
Churches (CEC), Rev. Jean-Arnold de Clermont, has just concluded a visit to
Moscow, 24-27 January 2005, where he met with His Holiness Patriarch Alexei II,
the head of the Russian Orthodox Church, and other church leaders.
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 "Is it possible to live calmly and happily when you know that two-thirds of human beings are suffering, hungry and poor?"
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