O Acompanhamento: Ecumenical Action for Human Rights in Latin America 1970-1990 - Softcover

Harper, Charles

Softcover

ISBN 10: 2825414794 ISBN 13: 9782825414798

Verlag: World Council of Churches (WCC Publications), 2006

Inhaltsangabe

In the 1960s and early 1970s, military dictatorships and juntas replaced elected civilian governments across Latin America. This book relates stories of Christians and their churches as they engaged in the struggle to uphold human rights, including the most basic human right to life itself. The book is a testament of courage and hope in face of the humiliation, torture, and murder-or "disappearance"-of dissidents. It tells of ordinary men and women who stood up for justice and righteousness in unexpected ways. It shows how the region's churches, and Christians throughout the world acting through the World Council of Churches, provided the oppressed people of Latin America practical "accompaniment" Ë?(o acompanhamento-in the Portuguese of Brazil). The narrative strengthens the common memory of the churches' part in Latin America's recovery of human rights, especially among a younger generation that may be unaware of this chapter in ecumenical history.

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Charles R. Harper served from 1973 to 1992 as executive director of the World Council of Churches' human rights resources office for Latin America, and from 1992 to 1995 as interim director of the Commission of the Churches on International Affairs.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: World Council of Churches (WCC Publications)
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2006
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 2825414794
• ISBN 13: 9782825414798
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 129
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