About two years ago, when the Ialorixá Jô Brandão de Nanã moved to a new neighbourhood in São Luís (Maranhão), she was looking for somewhere to build her worship house, celebrate her spiritual rituals and festivities, and receive her devotees and others from the...
Between 20 and 22 October 2023, the 2nd Ecumenical Baianão Meeting, coordinated by the Bahia Ecumenical Council of Christian Churches (Conselho Ecumênico Baiano de Igrejas Cristãs: CEBIC), was held in Salvador, Bahia. In the context of the Time of Creation, the...
The challenges of media coverage in the territories of the Amazon, the possibilities of partnerships between non-hegemonic media outlets and some of the many grassroots communicator networks that are taking shape within the movements, the safety of interview sources...
The 5th Ecumenical Conference promoted meetings between various faiths towards a world with less fundamentalism and gender violence The word Ubuntu, from South African philosophy, means union, solidarity. And this was the great driver of the 5th Ecumenical...
The team listened to six leaders out of the 114 witnesses in the Programme to Protect Human Rights Defenders in Maranhão, the state that suffers the most rural violence in Brazil In October, in partnership with CESE, the De Olho nos Ruralistas observatory launched the...
The 2023 Roundtable of the Process of International Networking and Dialogue (Processo de Articulação e Diálogo Internacional: PAD) took place on 5 and 6 October at the Sítio Titara, in Planaltina de Goiás. Alongside its Executive Coordination Office – made up of...
Organizing events is a way to raise funds and a methodology commonly used by churches and grassroots groups that want to raise funds and receive support for their causes. However, these activities don’t always provide a good return. “Normally, when organizations...
Seven female rural workers’ organizations from five states received support from CESE’s Small Projects Programme to join the 2023 Margaridas March. The event took place on 15 and 16 August in Brasilia. More than 100 thousand people were engaged in this...
On 30 September, after a four-year hiatus, CESE resumed its traditional Solidary Feijoada, a milestone in the Spring for Life Campaign. Over a day full of great music from Robherval and Ito Araújo, good food and much joy, more than 250 people visited CESE’s...
Letter from our Ecumenical Mission ... they shall turn their swords into ploughshares, and their spears into sickles (c.f. Isaiah 2:4) “Transforming the evil of the bullet into grace.” (Anacleta Pires – quilombola leader) From 4 to 6 September 2023, with drums,...
