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Meeting in
Attended
by Eva, Carmen, Teresa R and Teresa N, Maria-Jose, Pilar,
Esperanza from
Our
Swiss friends couldn’t be present, participating in another meeting at the same
time.
French
women were particularly grateful towards their Spanish friends for having been
so kindly welcomed and appreciated the important contributions they brought in
the debates.
On
Friday evening, after introducing ourselves, we had first exchanges about the
ecumenical dialogue in our countries. On Saturday morning Annette and Odile gave an account, the first one on the European
Meeting in
When
we came back, we spent a long time talking on inter religious dialogue in our
countries, mainly between Muslim and Christian women.
On
Sunday we had an ecumenical prayer together; then we tried to bring out some
conclusions on issues we discussed about during the meeting.
We
should like to share some of them with all the EFECW women.
1°About the
EFECW itself.
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We have to debate clearly on financial issues.
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We also need to rewrite some rules about the CC and NC elections.
2° About Ecumenical matters
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We urge the EFECW to initiate a common study upon the Charta Oecumenica, as requested in the
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We also ask the EFECW to question our Churches upon the way they react in the
overall secularization that is changing our societies and what is their actual
commitment in ecumenical dialogue. Are they fixed on the past or do they try to
have open-minded and sensible visions?
3° About pluri religious and multi cultural dialogue
We
have to apply the third recommendation of the
About
the relationship between secular world and religion, we should avoid to be
focused on the scarf problem and we better should study which rights are
legally recognized to the churches in various countries and what could be
changed in their public endowment?
We
have also to study migrant women’s identity in Europe; what traditions they
live with, why do they reject the Western feminism, how they can find their own
way between singularity and universality, escaping in their communities
or getting adapted to foreign customs.
In the development of a
more intellectual dialogue between
Muslims and Western Europe citizens , we have always to consider the place
given to women as criterion of approval or contestation of the proposed
terms
The
last point refers to The Koran and The Bible; we have to clarify the place
given to those Books in the two religions and what kind of reading and interpretation
we do practice.
down:Odile, Jacqueline,Annette,
up:Carmen, Eva, Sophie, Michelle, Geneviève, Esperanza, Maria-José, Teresa, Pilar
N.B:
Summaries of French and Spanish contributions are available to be distributed