Our St. Maurice Statement will be attached to the Assembly Message as an appendix. This was what the drafting committee said at the presentation of the Assembly Message.
I think, we can be a little bit proud of us. Because our work in St.Maurice was ennobled by this assembly. This shows that it is worth to work hard on such documents, argue about all small words and nuances.
But nevertheless, the Assembly Message wasn't developed in a democratic way. We couldn't vote on it; we couldn't decide anything, we had to accept the decisions of the drafting committee. This thing we shouldn't forget.
Showing posts with label St. Maurice Statement. Show all posts
Showing posts with label St. Maurice Statement. Show all posts
Saturday, September 8, 2007
Press release: St. Maurice Statement
Young delegates of the Third European Ecumenical Assembly
Sibiu/Romania, 4.-9.9.2007
Press release
Sibiu, 7th of September 2007
Youth Statement of St. Maurice presented during the EEA3
Today, 7th of September 2007, three young women, Julia Maria Koszewska (Roman-Catholic, Poland), Petra Schnabel (Lutheran, Germany) and Jooa Vuorinen (Orthodox, Finland), presented the Youth Statement of St. Maurice which was written by 40 young delegates and stewards on their EEA3 preparatory meeting in St. Maurice, Switzerland and approved during a hearing of the young delegates during the Assembly.
The young delegates stressed the importance the Statement should be given to in the Assembly Message. Different delegates of the Assembly supported during the reactions on the official first draft of the Assembly message. The statement of the young delegates should be taken as a ideal example for the Assembly message. One of the delegates even announced: „We should take the Youth Statement as the Assembly Message.“
The statement of the young delegates avoids having only superficial, but stresses on concrete commitments the European churches should engage in. So, the young Christians ask for an inter-religious dialogue process, which shall come to a similar result to the Charta Oecumenica, asking for the churches’ engagement for the establishing of an European Peace Agency and name the protection of Human Rights as one of the main tasks of churches. Particular importance is laid on the evaluation and further implementation of the results of the EEA2 in Graz 1997 and especially of the Charta Oecumenica.
For interviews and questions, please contact:
Christof Otto, +49 / 173 / 582 15 60
Tobias Traut, +49 / 163 / 820 86 00
Or just ask us. We are the people with the yellow caps :-)
Sibiu/Romania, 4.-9.9.2007
Press release
Sibiu, 7th of September 2007
Youth Statement of St. Maurice presented during the EEA3
Today, 7th of September 2007, three young women, Julia Maria Koszewska (Roman-Catholic, Poland), Petra Schnabel (Lutheran, Germany) and Jooa Vuorinen (Orthodox, Finland), presented the Youth Statement of St. Maurice which was written by 40 young delegates and stewards on their EEA3 preparatory meeting in St. Maurice, Switzerland and approved during a hearing of the young delegates during the Assembly.
The young delegates stressed the importance the Statement should be given to in the Assembly Message. Different delegates of the Assembly supported during the reactions on the official first draft of the Assembly message. The statement of the young delegates should be taken as a ideal example for the Assembly message. One of the delegates even announced: „We should take the Youth Statement as the Assembly Message.“
The statement of the young delegates avoids having only superficial, but stresses on concrete commitments the European churches should engage in. So, the young Christians ask for an inter-religious dialogue process, which shall come to a similar result to the Charta Oecumenica, asking for the churches’ engagement for the establishing of an European Peace Agency and name the protection of Human Rights as one of the main tasks of churches. Particular importance is laid on the evaluation and further implementation of the results of the EEA2 in Graz 1997 and especially of the Charta Oecumenica.
For interviews and questions, please contact:
Christof Otto, +49 / 173 / 582 15 60
Tobias Traut, +49 / 163 / 820 86 00
Or just ask us. We are the people with the yellow caps :-)
Friday, September 7, 2007
Presentation of the St. Maurice Statement
Jooa from Finland, Julia from Poland and Petra from Germany were on the stage to present our Youth Statement from St.Maurice.
Great: 3 young women on the stage, with a very short presentation of a paper which has not only some general sentences, but also concrete proposals. It was very different to most of the appearances of the last days! Maybe that's why they got the longest applause of the whole assembly.
I think, they presented a very good picture of young people and of our work.
Great: 3 young women on the stage, with a very short presentation of a paper which has not only some general sentences, but also concrete proposals. It was very different to most of the appearances of the last days! Maybe that's why they got the longest applause of the whole assembly.
I think, they presented a very good picture of young people and of our work.
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