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Sensibilidad y ocupación sobre lo vulnerable

Sensibilidad y ocupación sobre lo vulnerable

 

«Un gran profeta ha aparecido en medio de nosotros y Dios ha visitado su pueblo» 

Lucas 7, 11-17

 

Jesús se conmueve ante una situación: una viuda a la que se le muere su único hijo.  Es interesante como actúa la salvación o resurrección en este ejemplo, Jesús no se conmueve por la persona que esta muerta, o por lo que era en vida; se conmueve de la viuda, y no solo por la pérdida de su único hijo, sino por el desamparo a la que quedaba expuesta en la sociedad.  Una viuda en esa sociedad quedaba totalmente desprotegida y carente de recursos para su sustento, en este caso su hijo varón representaba también su sustento y protección social.  De modo que aquello que conmueve a Jesucristo es el desa mparo y vulnerabilidad a la que quedan expuestas las personas en la sociedad, como consecuencia de un estilo de convivencia bastante cruel y despiadado, convivencia a la que nosotros hoy, en medio de un dominante mercado de consumo, probablemente la llamaríamos salvaje.

 

Hoy seguimos teniendo en medio de nuestra organización social, un amplio margen de la población en situaciones que las llevan a tener graves dificultades en lo laboral (por ausencia de trabajo o explotación en el mismo), en la seguridad, en la asistencia de la salud, en la educación, en la satisfacción de las necesidades básicas.  Queda en evidencia la desprotección y vulnerabilidad a la que quedan expuestas personas, familias y poblaciones.  Jesús al acercarse a aquella ciudad, donde lo primero que aparece a su vista es aquella viuda que perdía a su único hijo varón, se encuentra antes que nada con el resultado de un tipo de organización s ocial que no contemplaba la inclusión y no proyecta el sostenimientos de los que quedan desprotegidos/as, dañando con ello parte de la creación de Dios.  Este daño hoy sigue existiendo y lamentablemente expandiéndose, lo que nos interpela a todos/as, especialmente a las personas que tienen responsabilidades para con la población, por los espacios de autoridad que les fueron delegados o espacios que fueron asumidos por la formación profesional que se pudo llegar a obtener.  Desde cualquier lugar, comprendiendo que solo estamos de paso y que todo pertenece a Dios, debemos ser sensibles a aquello de lo cual Jesús se compadece, para orientar nuestra sensibilidad en la misma dirección.  De esta manera, educándonos con la sensibilidad de Jesús, podremos ser instrumentos de es a compasión de Dios hacia aquello que lo conmueve y desea resucitar-salvar.

 

La actitud de Jesús hoy nos invita a reflexionar nuestras propias actitudes ante las muchas situaciones donde vemos el desamparo y vulnerabilidad de las personas, familias y poblados.  Nos invita a replantear nuestra organización como pueblo, e ir procurando -en forma progresiva- que existan mecanismos de protección y cuidado de los más vulnerables. Cuando hablamos de protección y cuidado estamos hablando de trabajo, educación, atención médica, es decir de dignidad en la vida de las personas; y esto no se logra con limosnas ni con planes sociales que van dejando de lado el trabajo como medio de sustento.  Muchas veces todo el espacio de vulnerabilidad de la poblaci&oa cute;n es utilizado con propósitos muy particulares, desatendiendo el deseo de Dios.  Cuando se manipula la necesidad de los demás a favor de beneficios personales, nos debemos preguntar como parte de la población, como ciudadanos/as, pero por sobre todo como cristianos/as: ¿hacia dónde se dirige la organización de nuestra convivencia?; ¿Qué meta se persigue a través de los años y a través de la manera de administrar los recursos que son de todos/as?

 

Sin dudas debemos seguir trabajando en nuestra organización como pueblo, para optimizar el funcionamiento de aquellos mecanismos de protección y cuidado de la población, principalmente de los más vulnerables.  Solo de esa manera se podrá seguir actualizando en nuestros días aquella expresión de la población: "…Dios ha visitado a su pueblo".  El pueblo visitado por Dios no se limita a lo que conocemos como Iglesia, se refiere justamente a todo el pueblo, y especialmente al sector desprotegido.  Por ello una de las características cristianas por excelencia es el servicio, ese servicio que se presta al cuidado y la protección de los más vulnerables.   En ello se encuentra la tarea y el propósito de cualquier cristiano/a o grupo cristiano, que vale decir, se muestra sensibilizado por aquello que conmueve a nuestro Dios y Señor, y no seducido por las apetencias de satisfacciones privilegiadas.

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World Council of Churches
Contact: + 41 22 791 6153 +41 79 507 6363

WCC Living Letters team calls on religions to work for peace in Nigeria

For immediate release: 26 May 2010

 

Living Letters team members with Hajia Bilikisu Yusuf and Archbishop John Onayekan (centre) of the Nigeria Inter-religious Council (NIREC).

A World Council of Churches (WCC) Living Letters team has appealed to Nigeria's religious leaders to encourage people belonging to different ethnic and faith groups to take initiatives to promote lasting peace and harmony in violence-affected communities.

The international ecumenical team made its appeal as its 15-20 May visit to the country came to an end. During the visit the members of the team were able to see how ethnic consideration and lack of trust among various ethnic groups prevail while the authorities are unable to ensure security and protection to the people in conflict-affected regions.

After their 4-day visit to the country, members of the team observed that there is an urgent need to strengthen the security of Nigeria's most volatile regions. The team recommended that “the religious communities jointly appeal to the government and the security agencies to be even-handed in their quest to bring peace to the Central Plateau State and neighbouring states and take measures to ensure that there will be free and fair elections in the upcoming polls”.

Living Letters are small ecumenical teams visiting a country to listen, learn, share approaches and help to confront challenges in order to overcome violence, promote and pray for peace. One such team travelled to Nigeria, where in addition to the Central Plateau State, they visited the country's capital city Abuja.

At the end of their visit, the Living Letters team met with the Nigeria Inter-religious Council (NIREC), an initiative of Christian and Muslim leaders set up three years ago to help stem the tide of communal violence in the country.

The council comprises of both Christians and Muslims, with administrative support being provided by the Nigerian government. It is currently headed by the president of the Christian Association of Nigeria, Roman Catholic Archbishop John Onayekan, and by the Sultan of Sokoto, Haji Saad Abubakar who is the spiritual leader of the Muslim communities in Nigeria.

Members of NIREC present at the meeting included Archbishop Onayekan, Samuel Salifu, Hajia Bilikisu Yusuf and Aliyu Ocheje. During the 3-hour meeting the WCC team had the opportunity of sharing experiences and comparing notes with the NIREC members on their visit to the troubled region of Jos.

The members of the Living Letters team told the NIREC representatives that the visit of the ecumenical group had been a time of learning, listening and sharing experiences.

According to Outi Vasko, a WCC Executive Committee member from the Finnish Orthodox Church, the Living Letters team visit to Nigeria was very successful but also demanding since the team was able to meet victims and understand the difficulties that they are facing. The visit encouraged and strengthened the commitment of the local churches to work for peace.

Christians and Muslims are "in the same boat"

Archbishop Onayekan commended the Living Letters team for having travelled from all over the world to Nigeria. He said the two main religious communities in Nigeria are in the same boat. Nobody feels like minority and nobody feels like majority.

Onayekan observed that there was some kind of disconnect between the NIREC and the clerics of both faiths at the grassroots level: "There are many of my priests who don't consider my optimism for dialogue and this also applies to the other side. My conviction is that people living in the grassroots don't have problems living together but the imams and pastors leading them sometimes send wrong signals by the kind of messages they preach."

He also noted that the situation is somewhat difficult for NIREC because the people in government had sometimes used the perpetrators of violence for their political agendas.

While confessing that NIREC was still in its infancy, Hajia Bilikisu said the group had been instrumental in creating a multi-sector alliance on issues of development. She stated that NIREC had been useful in curtailing the violence in the country but she was critical of the policies of the Nigerian government for its tardy response to security issues in the troubled regions. “The problem we are having is failure of security and failure of leadership”, she said.

Arne Saeveras of Norwegian Church Aid shared experiences of interfaith cooperation in Norway, where religious groups work together for peace and justice. Saeveras suggested that religious communities in Nigeria should "jointly advocate for the government to make immediate and sufficient provisions for security for all communities“.

"As law and order collapse, the security of people is often threatened", said Dr Mathews George Chunakara, director of the WCC Commission on International Affairs. "Overt and covert alliances between political and religious organizations often lead to conflicts in communities. It is in this context that legal measures to separate politics from religion should be pursued as a matter of state policy through appropriate structural changes or statutory instruments in the country”.

Dr Johnson Mbillah of the All Africa Conference of Churches stated that the way towards sustainable peace depends on overcoming mutual suspicions among divided communities and on restoring confidence and willingness to talk across the religious divide.

The Living Letters Team visit to Nigeria was organized by the WCC in collaboration with the AACC. The members of the team were:

  • Bishop Dr Robert Aboagye-Mensah, vice-president of All Africa Conference of Churches (AACC), WCC Central Committee member, Ghana;
  • Rev. Dr Volker Faigle, Evangelical Church in Germany (EKD);
  • Rev. Dr Johnson Mbillah, general adviser, Programme for Christian-Muslim Relations in Africa (PROCMURA), Ghana/Kenya;
  • Ms Mbari Kioni, director of advocacy at the AACC, Kenya;
  • Archbishop Daniel Okoh, Organisation of African Instituted Churches (OAIC), Nigeria;
  • Mr Arne Saeveras, Norwegian Church Aid (NCA), Norway;
  • Mr Jan Guehne, Mission 21, Switzerland/Germany/Nigeria;
  • Ms Outi Vasko, Orthodox Church of Finland, WCC Executive Committee member;

WCC staff:

  • Dr Mathews George Chunakara, director, Commission of the Churches on International Affairs;
  • Dr Nigussu Legesse, programme executive for Africa.

The team was accompanied by WCC Central Committee members and other Christian leaders from Nigeria:

  • Archbishop Dr Josiah Atkins Idowu-Fearon, Church of Nigeria (Anglican Communion), WCC Central Committee member;
  • Ms Iyabo Oyekola, Church of the Lord (Aladura) Worldwide, WCC Executive Committee member;
  • Ms Helen Ubon Usung, Presbyterian Church of Nigeria; WCC Central Committee member;
  • Archbishop Kehinde Stephen, Methodist Church Nigeria, moderator of the WCC Continuation Committee on Ecumenism in 21st Century
  • Rev. Samuel Obafemi Ogbe, general secretary of the Christian Council of Nigeria
  • Rev. Babatunde Olusegun, programme director of the Christian Council of Nigeria.

(Gbenga Osinaike, the publisher of the Church Times of Lagos, Nigeria, reported from Abuja.)

More information on the Living Letters visit to Nigeria

WCC member churches in Nigeria


The World Council of Churches promotes Christian unity in faith, witness and service for a just and peaceful world. An ecumenical fellowship of churches founded in 1948, today the WCC brings together 349 Protestant, Orthodox, Anglican and other churches representing more than 560 million Christians in over 110 countries, and works cooperatively with the Roman Catholic Church. The WCC general secretary is Rev. Dr Olav Fykse Tveit, from the [Lutheran] Church of Norway. Headquarters: Geneva, Switzerland.

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Muitas vezes me perguntam qual minha religião, e com um jeito meio desengonçado digo - SOU CRISTÃO. Incrível, mas em pleno século XXI ainda tem pessoas que se preocupam com isso. Mas não é só suficiente ser cristão, tem que ser cristão evangélico, e além disso tem que ser cristão evangélico de igreja tal ... ou de outra forma não e está salvo. Basta a igreja ter um vaso de flores perto do púlpito, ou chamar o púlpito de altar, ou ter uma imagem qualquer pendurada em uma parede, ou realizar  o batismo de forma diferente que ESTÁ QUEIMADA em nome de um Jesus particular que mais representa o Diabo que a Deus.

Fico me perguntando até quando a humanidade vai trilhar por caminhos tão diferentes dos de Cristo Jesus - que não era cristão : era Judeu ! que  nunca freqüentou igrejas ( que não existiam), que nunca usou o Novo Testamento ( pois ainda não havia sido inventado). Que nunca usou um paletó ( que não era a roupa típica da época, como ainda não é a roupa típica de hoje), que freqüentava a casa de prostitutas  de pecadores e comia com eles ( coisa que se o cristão de hoje fizer certamente será expulso da igreja a qual pertence.

Pregações sempre são realizadas falando de Abraão, Isac, Jacó, Elias, Elizeu , e NADA DE ATUALIDADE:  o povo é transportado para um mundo pré-histórico alienando-se de toda a realidade do presente , sem vida social, sem vida familiar, sem vida cidadã.

Percebo uma busca exacerbada pela Santidade, santidade de tal forma que nem os Nazireus  ousaram proclamar. Pela pureza - e tem gente que passa o tempo todo com uma trena medindo a santidade e a pureza dos outros.

Ainda Hoje uso a Bíblia Viva para conversar com algumas pessoas, a Bíblia Viva, para quem não sabe, é uma tentativa de comunicar a palavra de Deus para pessoas com o vocabulário podre e de pouca cultura - e e leio para Doutores Formados em Seminários Maiores e Faculdades Religiosas, pois somente - em muito casos - só revivendo o PROJETO MOBRAL - para me fazer entender por tão ilustres letrados.

Espero que desculpem estar falando isso logo em minha primeira escrita para este site, mas não agüento mais tanta baboseira.

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