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Press Release No. 10-01e20.01.10 11:45 European Churches support the European Year 2010 against Poverty and Social Exclusion“Poverty Hurts Your Soul” The Church and Society Commission of the Conference of European Churches (CEC) has developed the contribution of the European churches for the European Year 2010. Its objective is to encourage the European institutions, EU Member States and other stakeholders to come to a more holistic understanding of the reasons which lead to poverty and social exclusion, as well as of the manifold impact of poverty and social exclusion not only on the people affected but on the whole of society. “In Christian understanding, poverty and social exclusion are multi-dimensional phenomena not only based on economic factors, but ones which affect all dimensions of life; not only the individual, but also the community,” explains Rüdiger Noll, Director of the CEC Church and Society Commission. The planned activities of the churches in the framework of the 2010 European Year for combating poverty and social exclusion are closely linked to the joint project of CEC’s member churches with the Churches’ Commission for Migrants in Europe (CCME) on “Migration 2010 - European churches responding to migration 2010”. The Contribution of the CEC Church and society Commission can be found on the CEC website: Website of the European Year for Combating Poverty and Social Exclusion: ************* The Conference of European Churches (CEC) is a fellowship of some 120 Orthodox, Protestant, Anglican and Old Catholic Churches from all countries of Europe, plus 40 associated organisations. CEC was founded in 1959. It has offices in Geneva, Brussels and Strasbourg. The Church and Society Commission (CSC) is one of the commissions of the Conference of European Churches (CEC). The CSC links CEC’s some 120 member churches from all over Europe and its associated organisations with the European Union’s institutions, the Council of Europe, the OSCE, NATO and the UN (on European matters). Its task is to help the churches study church and society questions from a theological social-ethical perspective, especially those with a European dimension, and to represent common positions of the member churches in their relations with political institutions working in Europe. For more information:
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