281, Congress Special Edition - Issue 2
281, Congress Special Edition - Issue 2
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Tutu praises, challenges at opening ceremony Congress 2008 opens in Cape Town By Rebekah Chevalier, Canada To the heart-pulsing beat of Burundian drummers, through hymns and multi-media images and with words of praise and challenge from Archbishop Desmond Tutu and other dignitaries, the World Association for Christian Communication opened its 2008 Congress in Cape Town, South Africa, 6 October. The 300 participants and honoured guests gathered in Life Church were welcomed by WACC President Musimbi Kanyoro, who addressed the Congress theme “Communication is Peace.” “Genuine communication-the kind that sees your neighbour as your keeper and you as your neighbour’s keeper-communicates a mutual concern for one another, the kind of concern our world and its people really need today.” Read more... |
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Obispo Tutu: Somos llamados a construir la paz Por Manuel Quintero, Cuba Ciudad del Cabo, Oct. 6.- Nuestra tarea sigue siendo la de construir la paz, declaró Desmond Tutu en la sesión que inauguró el Cuarto Congreso Mundial de la Asociación Mundial para la Comunicación Cristiana (WACC por sus siglas en inglés) que reúne a cerca de trescientos comunicadores en esta ciudad sudafricana. El carismático prelado anglicano, que fuera galardonado con el Premio Nobel de la Paz en 1984, destacó la importancia de la comunicación, a la que calificó comoun “derecho humano fundamental, dado por Dios”. Read more... |
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“Clouds of witnesses” honoured By Robyn Naylor, Canada Many people outside South Africa would not know the names Florence de Villiers or Helen Kotze, two women who united in 1969 at the height of apartheid. They could not tell you about Zubeida Jaffer, a Muslim journalist and activist who exposed police killings in the 1980s but was tortured and arrested, or Diana Ferrus, who chose poetry and art to fight oppression when police forced their way into her family’s home to warn them to stay put. During its opening ceremony WACC recognized “clouds of witnesses”--eight men and women from different faiths, backgrounds and races who defied authorities in the face of South Africa’s racism and oppression. Read more... |
Communiquer à travers sa culturePar Mathilde Kpalla, Togo Que ce soit les tambours résonnants du groupe de batteurs venu du Burundi dans une scène célébrant la diversité de l’Afrique et criant la paix, les vêtements traditionnels portés par les participants selon leur région d’origine ou la communication avec les ancêtres de Doreen Spence lors de sa présentation, la communication a triomphé. Communiquer à travers sa culture et communiquer sa culture. Nous portons tous notre histoire parfois triste, parfois merveilleuse, mais c’est notre histoire et personne n’a le droit de nous l’enlever, car c’est notre culture. Lire plus... |