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Author: Panel
Date: 24.09.2010
Category: Reconciliation, Reconciliation
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Using the example of Wales in the United Kingdom, Menna Machreth shows how Christian faith can help to preserve and promote culture, language and ethnic identity.
Individuals from Sri Lanka, South Africa and Rwanda share their experience of ethnic conflict. The panel identifies the role of the churches in response to ethnic conflict.
Keywords: full session, ethnicity, nations, peace, reconciliation, Cape Town 2010
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Singapore
Thoughts from Question times||First question time:
In some way we need to respect and affirm ethnic identity but also to note that our loyalty is first to Christ.
Challenging our own ethnic values is also important.
As we go among others, perhaps we have to oversee in some way, patiently ensuring that the Spirit is indeed bringing people to recognize and engage with the features of their own culture which still need to be addressed.
This is a challenge.
Second question:
Sorry didn’t get to think much on that either.
19.10.2010
Singapore
Welsh Ethnicity ...||I enjoyed the discussion of Welsh. My work is so far removed from European minorities but in some ways such a case is closer and worth contemplating.
The story was well presented and it would be good to have that paper also published.
The interaction of the Welsh Revival and the rescue of Welsh is very interesting.
It is another area of balance and holding identity in Christ in tension with identity in ethnicity.
19.10.2010
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