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The Assembly of the European Christian Environmental Network (ECEN)
addressing the theme “Reconciled with creation: a call for urgent action
on climate and biodiversity” will be held from 28 May – 2 June 2021 at
the Evangelical Academy Bad Herrenalb, Germany.
An essential aspect of the ECEN Assembly will be connecting European
churches’ work for ecology and care for creation to the 2021 Assembly of
the World Council of Churches in Karlsruhe.
The ECEN Assembly will offer a space to highlight churches’ practices
leading to sustainable future and governance supporting these
practices. Particular attention in Assembly preparation will be given to
youth involvement. Close cooperation with the Ecumenical Youth Council
of Europe and the World Student Christian Federation – Europe will be
part of the process.
Response to climate change and efforts for sustainable future are
linked to an ethical dimension and to broader questions of individual
and collective freedom, pursuing of justice and responsibility for
future. Churches and faith communities have been increasingly aware of
these challenges.
In pursuing these challenges, European Christian Environmental
Network announces its next Assembly, which will take place under the
title: ‘Reconciled with creation: a call for urgent action on climate
and biodiversity’ from 29 August – 2 September 2020 in Evangelical
Academy Bad Herrenalb ( Germany).
An essential aspect of the ECEN conference 2020 will be relating work
of European churches in ecology and care for creation to the 2021
Assembly of the World Council of Churches in Karlsruhe. Partnership and
close cooperation between ECEN and WCC has been successfully developing
for years. The WCC Assembly in Europe, first after more than 5 decades,
offers a unique opportunity for manifesting close link and support of
European churches to the Assembly through many ways. ECEN has an
ambition to emphasise this link in highlighting a joint efforts of
churches in Europe and WCC in works on care for creation and ecological
justice, and through the conference contribute to a meaningful way
leading to the WCC Assembly 2021.
ECEN Assembly will offer a space for highlighting churches’ efforts
for practices leading to sustainable future and to the governance
supporting these practices. Particular attention in preparation as well
as in programme of the Assembly will be given to involvement of youth
and specific youth’s concerns related to care of sustainable future.
Close cooperation with Ecumenical Youth Council of Europe and World
Student Christian Federation – Europe will be an essential part of the
process.
