Despite all the setbacks experienced in recent times, CESE is commemorating another year of existence. Its role in strengthening grass-roots organizations has enabled organized civil society to continue fighting for rights. Given the social and political situation of uncertainties and fragilities, we need, more than ever, to increase our strength so that, in partnership with […]
CESE’s General Assembly ended on 9th June with the unanimous approval of the organization’s 2016 annual activity and financial reports. The annual assembly brought together representatives from all the churches that constitute CESE to discuss the organization’s guidelines and perspectives. Those in attendance joined the Direct Elections Now campaign, which calls for direct general elections […]
On 8th June, in the region known as Prainha, CESE’s Assembly brought together fishermen and women from Ilha de Maré with hymns and slogans, to hold an ecumenical act. The location, used by Ilha de Maré residents and tourists alike for fishing and leisure, may be destroyed by the expansion of Aratu Port. If approved, […]
The Board of the global ACT Alliance, meeting in Geneva on the 1st and 2nd of June 2017 expresses its deep concern with the unfolding crisis of democracy in Brazil, characterised by violence and aggression against the most vulnerable citizens of the country. Since the current political crisis began, violence is escalating, especially in remote […]
From Crisis to Hope: New Pathways for a World of Good Living was the theme that the Professor and Doctor of Theology, Leonardo Boff, brought to Salvador. The event, promoted by the Advisory Service for Rural People’s Organizations (Serviço de Assessoria a Organizações Populares Rurais: SASOP) and the Ecumenical Coordination of Service (Coordenadoria Ecumênica de […]
Pathways to solutions, the development of action plans, the analysis of problems and of interested parties – these and other themes were discussed at a seminar attended by approximately 20 young people during the Mobilizing Support course promoted by Terre des Hommes (TdH – Schweiz and Suisse). The training took place between 15 and 19 […]
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