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25 Jun, 2014
CCME Press Release: Ecumenical European meeting on “Crossing borders – at what price?”
The 19th General Assembly of the Churches’ Commission for Migrants in Europe (CCME) started on 26 June at the Sigtuna Foundation. The Church of Sweden and the Christian Council of Sweden, the two Swedish member organisations in CCME, are hosting the event in Sigtuna. One of the issues discussed on the opening day is how the churches can influence European countries to take greater responsibility for the refugee crises in our vicinity.
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14 Jun, 2014
Available now – The Budapest Report
The report of the 14th General Assembly of the Conference of European Churches is now available online.
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5 Jun, 2014
Presseerklärung: Der Menschen gedenken, die ihr Leben auf der Suche nach Sicherheit verloren
Die Vollversammlung der KEK in Budapest im Juli 2013 rief die Kirchen erneut zu einem jährlichen Gebetstag auf, um der Opfer zu gedenken, die auf ihrem Weg nach Europa - in der Hoffnung auf ein würdigeres Leben- den Tod fanden.
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5 Jun, 2014
Press Release: Commemorate Persons who lost their lives on their way to seek safety
The Assembly of the Conference of European Churches held in Budapest in July 2013 has renewed the call on churches to “to commemorate those who have died on their journey to find a dignified life in Europe through an annual day of prayer.”
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5 Jun, 2014
Press release: Governing Board meets
The Governing Board of the Conference of European Churches (CEC) held its third meeting since the 2013 Assembly in Budapest. The meeting took place in Brussels, Belgium, from the 2nd to the 5th of June 2014.
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25 May, 2014
CEC condemns shooting at the Jewish Museum in Brussels
The Conference of European Churches condemns the dreadful attack at the Jewish Museum in Brussels last Saturday killing three visitors and critically wounding one person.
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24 May, 2014
Holy Assembly of Bishops of the Serbian Orthodox Church
Archbishop Jovan – political prisoner number one in contemporary Europe - 24 May 2014. The Assembly published an Announcement in which it also speaks of the canonical Church in R. Macedonia, the Orthodox Ohrid Archbishopric.
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23 May, 2014
European National Councils of Churches gather
The general secretaries of European National Councils of Churches met from 20 to 23 May 2014 in the Netherlands and in Belgium.
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14 May, 2014
The Conference of European Churches expresses its solidarity with Turkish miners
The Conference of European Churches expresses its solidarity with the miners, their families and all Turkish mine workers when almost 300 workers lost their lives and more than a hundred are still missing during a mine explosion in Soma.