This year CESE celebrated its anniversary virtually. The morning of Tuesday 16 June saw the inauguration of a series of live streaming events, “Ecumenical and Inter-religious Dialogue”, on the institution’s YouTube channel. The first transmission addressed the theme “Ecumenism for the Defence of Rights in Times of Pandemic” with invited speakers Anna Moser (Misereor) and […]
In the current global context, particularly in Brazil, fascism, conservatism and fundamentalism are advancing and reasserting racism, the “natural” social hierarchy and the militarization of the police. CESE, an ecumenical organization that works for the promotion, defence and guarantee of rights, identifies and recognizes the existence of individual, institutional, and structural racism in the historic […]
Around the world, the COVID-19 pandemic continues to spread at a catastrophic rate, although some countries have managed to control it. Brazil currently ranks fourth in global death rates, behind only the United States, the United Kingdom and Italy. There is a general propensity for epidemics to expose and aggravate social inequalities, with a greater […]
In the midst of the global pandemic, the Ecumenical Coordination of Service (Coordenadoria Ecumênica de Serviço: CESE) continues supporting initiatives from the grassroots movements that express the struggle for resistance and the guarantee of rights – although now it is prioritizing initiatives of an emergency and humanitarian nature to combat the advance of the coronavirus. […]
According to WHO (World Health Organization) and specialists in the area, the best policy to contain the spread of the new coronavirus around the world is social isolation to prevent new infections, personal hygiene measures and the use of masks. However, in such an unequal country as Brazil, following quarantine recommendations and washing hands frequently […]
Around the world, more than 3.5 million people have been diagnosed with SARS-CoV-2, the causative agent of COVID-19. We have followed with bewilderment the impact of the pandemic in China, Italy, Spain, Ecuador and the United States. The disease has already advanced¬ in Brazil, in parallel with a humanitarian and sanitary crisis and increasingly aggravated […]
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