On 8-10 October the CALL network – Church Action on Labour and Life – held its 3rd Assembly in Brussels. The theme “Facing the crisis: CALL for good work in Europe” gathered about 35 delegates of CEC Member Churches from 20 different European countries to evaluate the work carried out by the network in the past two years and to [...]

Samedi 12 mai, l’assemblée synodale de l’Eglise Protestante Unie de Belgique a élu avec une majorité évidente le pasteur Steven H. Fuite (50) comme président de synode à partir du 1er janvier 2013. Le pasteur Fuite ne cache pas qu’il est né à Zwolle (Pays-Bas), mais qu’il est fier d’être venu habiter en Flandre à partir de ses 20 ans. [...]

Le Belgian Council of Religious Leaders a pris connaissance avec tristesse des événements survenus à Sierre en Suisse où ont péri des dizaines d’enfants et d’adultes.

“Words alone are inadequate to express our sorrow,” wrote World Council of Churches general secretary Rev. Dr Olav Fykse Tveit to the churches and people of Belgium following the death on Tuesday 13 March of 22 children and six adults in the crash of a hired coach near Sierre, Switzerland. The students and their teachers were beginning the journey home [...]

Le Dr Guy Liagre, président de l’Eglise Protestante Unie de Belgique et coprésident du Conseil Administratif du Culte Protestant et Evangélique a envoyé une lettre à M. Semsettin Ugurlu, président de l’Exécutif des Musulmans de Belgique, dans laquelle il exprime sa tristesse face aux événements qui ont eu lieu la nuit dernière dans la mosquée d’Anderlecht, rue Docteur De Meersman.

Hilfswerke: Ex-Präsident des Tschad soll an Belgien ausgeliefert werden Anlässlich des Gipfeltreffens der Staatschefs der Afrikanischen Union in Addis Abeba haben die Hilfswerke Misereor und „Brot für die Welt“ sowie die Menschenrechtsorganisation Human Rights Watch Deutschland die Auslieferung des ehemaligen Präsidenten der Republik Tschad, Hissène Habré, an Belgien gefordert. Die Europäische Union solle das Auslieferungsersuchen Belgiens unterstützen, so die Organisationen. [...]

His Eminence Metropolitan Emmanuel of France, President of the Conference of European Churches (CEC), has sent a letter to Rev. Dr Guy Liagre, the President of the Eglise Protestante Unie de Belgique expressing his shock upon learning of yesterday’s violence in Liege. He sends his profound condolences to “the families and the friends of the killed, to the wounded, to [...]

ekklesia/ENI – Christian organisations in Belgium have had mixed reactions to a criminal code amendment making the country Europe’s second to ban the Islamic veil, or burqa – writes Jonathan Luxmoore. “We’re against this ruling, since it violates basic human rights,” said Kristine Jansone, General Secretary of the Brussels-based Ecumenical Youth Council in Europe. “Although I can’t speak on behalf [...]

CEC´s Church and Society Commission to meet in Brussels The “Culture and Contents of the dialogue between the churches and the European Institutions” is the main theme of this year´s Plenary meeting of the CSC of CEC taking place in Brussels from 25-28 May. In the Lisbon Treaty, the European Union Institutions commit themselves to an “open, transparent and regular [...]

Women of all religions commit together… Dutch speakers, francophones, are working for a better recognition of their contribution towards a society with less discrimination. At the Belgian Federal Parliament on 5th May 2011 at 11:00a.m., women of faith unite around a common declaration during the inauguration of the Council of the Belgian Women of Faith Network. They are supported by [...]