WCRC eNewsletter: October 2020: Jubilee Panel, General Secretary Search, Calls to Prayer, More

eNews: October 2020 Interfaith panel addresses debt cancellation and reparations A panel of experts of different faiths spoke on debt cancellation and reparations as tools for promoting justice, sustainability and life-affirming economies in the third 2020 Ecumenical School on Governance, Economics and Management public webinar held on 2 October. Addressing ways in which to move toward just economies, Karen Georgia Thompson, associate general minister and co-executive for Global Ministries at the United Church of Christ, said, “The church has a role to play in the call for reparations, and the church has to provide leadership in this movement for reparations.” “Reparations have to be grounded in the investment in people and righting the wrongs that are associated with working Africans as enslaved people and depriving them of life and liberty for European wealth gain.” Read more: Deutsch, English, Español, Français

Yvette Noble Bloomfield, moderator of the General Secretary Search Committee, offers advice to potential general secretary applicants. CANAAC offers reflections each Friday on their website. The WCRC calls for prayers for peace in the Nagorno-Karabakh region. Facebook Twitter Website Email The WCRC is co-sponsoring a series of webinars on “Discerning Transformative Ecumenism in a Pandemic-Stricken World” starting 4 Nov. Member church news is posted every Friday on the WCRC blog.

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