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CEC- CCME calls to commemorate Persons dying
on their way to seek safety

The Assembly of the Conference of European Churches held in Lyon in July 2009 called on churches to “to commemorate those who have died on their journey to find a dignified life in Europe through an annual day of prayer.” In the past years, many churches and parishes across Europe have taken up this call and held commemoration services around the 20 June, International Refugee Day. This year we wish to recommend holding services of commemoration on 16 or 23 June, the Sunday before or after the International Refugee Day 20 June.

Letter to the CEC Member Churches

Remembrance 2013 Resource Guide  English - German

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European Agency for Fundamental Rights (EU FRA)
6th Fundamental Rights Platform Meeting
24 - 26 April 2013 - Vienna

Workshop Training on social, economic and cultural rights
Host: Mag Elizabeta Kitanovic - Executive Secretary for Human Rights and Communication, Church and Society Commission of CEC

Upon request of churches in the Euro Mediterranean region, the Conference of European Churches together with the Federation of Protestant Churches in Italy is in the process of organisinga training workshop on social, economic and cultural rights. Read more...

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Rev. Rüdiger Noll, Director of the CSC Commission


Church and Society Commission discuss the European Year of Citizens; 
Rev. Rudiger Noll, Director of Church and Society Commission leaves


The European Year of Citizens 2013 has been the main theme of the annual plenary meeting of the Church and Society Commission of the Conference of European Churches (CSC) that took place in Brussels from 18-20 April. Carsten Lietz, member of the cabinet of Commissioner Reding introduced the activities and the background of the Year that has been declared by the EU. 

Contributions on the main theme:

A theology of European Citizenship: a catholic approach
Rev Dr Frank Turner S. J. -  Jesuit European Social Centre

 

The Members of the Church and Society Commission
H. G. Bishop Porfyrios
Dr. Peter Schreiner

© All photos CEC/CSC

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Sharing opportunities for churches and diaconia to shape the Europe 2020
strategy and its social objectives

10-11 April 2013

Report

Ms. Veronica Lope Fontagné MEP - © CEC/CSC

Churches and Diaconia call for more civil society influence in the European Semester - 12 April 2012
From the 10th to 11th April, Eurodiaconia and the Church & Society Commission of CEC, held a conference in Brussels on “sharing opportunities for churches and diaconia to shape the Europe 2020 strategy and its social objectives”.

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The Church and Society Commission (CSC) is one of the commissions of the Conference of European Churches (CEC), which is an ecumenical fellowship of 124 churches and 40 associated organisations from all over Europe. CSC provides a platform for the CEC membership to reflect on socio-ethical issues ecumenically and to involve them in common action and advocacy in relation to the European Union, the Council of Europe, the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe and the United Nations (in European matters). CSC operates as a forum for action, dialogue and ecumenical training in European affairs.

In the Charta Oecumenica of 2001, European churches committed themselves to support the integration of the European continent: “On the basis of our Christian faith, we work towards a humane, socially conscious Europe, in which human rights and the basic values of peace, justice, freedom, tolerance, participation and solidarity prevail”. 

The Annual Report of the Church and Society Commission can be found here.

 

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Read our “Annual Review” which gives a more detailed account of the work of the Church and Society Commission.

Every year, the Church and Society Commission receives a report from its Director and its staff about the work implemented during the last year.

The Plenary of the Church and Society Commission met in Brussels, 18 – 20 April 2013 and unanimously “received” the Annual Review.

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Church and Society at WorkChurch and Society at Work

The Church and Society Commission adopted the "Europe and Family Policy"


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“Education for Democratic Citizenship” in the Context of Europe
Material and Resources for Churches and Educators
Edited by Peter Schreiner (Comenius-Institut)
 
A publication of the Church & Society Commission of the Conference of European Churches, the Intereuropean Commission on Church and School and the International Association for Christian Education in cooperation with the Comenius-Institut

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European churches engaging
in human rights
Present challenges and training material

Book & CD

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The lies we tell ourselves: ending comfortable myths about poverty

A report from the Baptist Union of Great Britain, the Methodist Church, the Church of Scotland and the United Reformed Church

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News from BrusselsNews from Brussels

Renovations of the Ecumenical Centre (Rue Joseph II, 174) have reached the first floor and the outside façade, which has been cleaned-up already

© CSC of CEC
© CSC of CEC

The construction work at the Ecumenical Centre in Brussels, home to the Church and Society Commission of CEC, the Churches Commission for Migrants in Europe and other ecumenical organisations is now under full swing. Find out more by clicking on the picture above.

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Collective complaint to the European Committee of Social Rights

Upon request of the Protestant Church in the Netherlands (PKN), the Conference of European Churches (CEC) has submitted on 17 January 2013 a “collective  complaint” to the European Committee of Social Rights (called below “the Committee”) of the Council of Europe (CoE), which seat is in Strasbourg.

CEC is one of the organisations authorized to lodge a collective complaint under the Revised Social Charter.

For further information, please contact Rev. Richard Fischer

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Education for democratic citizenship - A role for the churches?

Read the conference report - English

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Addition on Freedom of Religion or Belief in our Human Rights Library

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Joint Publication from the Church and Society Commission of CEC and the WCC

Poverty, Wealth, and Ecology in Europe:  Call for Climate Change

Problems of poverty and inequality, ecological destruction and violence have worsened against the backdrop of intensified economic globalisation, characterised by rapid trade and financial integration, in the last three decades...