2023 European Conference

2023 European Conference, Baarlo, Netherlands

Overcoming Racism in the Church

Then God said, ‘Let us make human beings in our image, after our likeness’ (Genesis 1:26)

29 September – 1 October 2023

• Programme
• Press release after the conference: Racism and the Church: A needed debate (5 October 2023)
• Opening remarks and prayer by Antje Heider-Rottwilm (Church and Peace Chair)
• Greeting by Geert van Dartel (National Council of Churches in the Netherlands)
• Greeting and Input by Hedwig Komproe (Board member SKIN – Together Church in the Netherlands)
• Input “Migrant churches in a racist context in Europe” by Adejare Oyewole (Treasurer of the Churches’ Commision for Migrants in Europe, CCME)
• Lecture “How is the ecumenical movement responding to racism from an intersectional perspective?” by Thandi Soko de Jong (PhD candidate at the Protestant Theological University) and Nicole Ashwood (programme executive for Just Communities of Women and Men of the WCC) 
• Workshop abstracts
• Workshop input “(Neo)colonialism and its impact on racism” by Yawo Kakpo
• Workshop input “Racism and Colonialism within Europe from a Serbian perspective” by Marijana Ajzenkol
• Liturgy and Prayers of the Ecumenical Worship
• Sermon by Yawo Kakpo on Genesis 1,26