{"id":2426,"date":"2010-11-29T00:00:07","date_gmt":"2010-11-29T00:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/new.brethren.org\/news\/?p=2426"},"modified":"2018-09-06T04:55:49","modified_gmt":"2018-09-06T04:55:49","slug":"conference-holds-day-of-reporting-participantes-de-la-conferencia-informan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/2010\/conference-holds-day-of-reporting-participantes-de-la-conferencia-informan\/","title":{"rendered":"Conference holds day of reporting – Participantes de la conferencia informan"},"content":{"rendered":"

Conference holds day of reporting from participants\u2019 work for peace<\/h4>\n

Participantes de la conferencia informan sobre su trabajo por la paz<\/h4>\n
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Adriana Cabrera of Bogota, Colombia, Friends meeting reviewed Quaker history in Latin America and offered a Quaker foundation for peacemaking. Photo by Cheryl Brumbaugh-Cayford<\/em><\/small><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

(Nov. 29, 2010) Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic –<\/em> A full day of reporting was held today by the participants in the Historic Peace Church conference in Latin America, which continues this week through Thursday at a Catholic retreat center outside Santo Domingo.<\/p>\n

Starting with a history of the Friends in Latin America and an overview of Quaker foundations for peacemaking, the group spent the rest of the day hearing a series of short 15-minute presentations from a wide variety of peace- and justice-related programs in various countries and churches.<\/p>\n

The evening offered a brief history of the island shared by the DR and Haiti, and the colonial roots of violence that has marked the relations between the two countries, given by Mennonite pastor Miqueas Ramirez of Santo Domingo\u2019s Iglesia Evangelica Menonita Luz y Vida. A Mennonite group led evening devotions, and small groups had an opportunity to start reflecting on what they have been hearing from other participants.<\/p>\n

The opening presentation of the day by Adriana Cabrera of the Friends meeting in Bogota, Colombia, offered the Quaker image of an inner light of God in each human being as foundational for peacemaking.<\/p>\n

Cabrera holds a master of divinity degree from Earlham School of Religion in Richmond, Ind., in the United States, and in Colombia directs a human rights-related program. Her work includes women\u2019s reproductive rights and work with the gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender community.<\/p>\n

She reminded the group that the concept of an inner light also means that the work of peacemaking starts with ourselves. A story from what she called “the colonialist push” of the Quakers from the US–whose mission workers started many of the Friends meetings in Latin America–brought the point home. In the early mission years, she said, there was a practice of not offering translation into Spanish at business meetings. One woman working with the Quakers in Mexico resigned over this discriminatory practice. Her protest proved to be transformational, Cabrera related, and it wasn\u2019t too long before interpretation was offered, along with translation of foundational Quaker texts.<\/p>\n

She called the Historic Peace Churches conference to a similar passion and risk taking for peace and justice. The great Quaker leaders over history have “plunged into the water” of abolition, prison ministry, and penal reform, in just a few examples. “What inspires us,” she asked, “and for whom do we work?”<\/p>\n

Cabrera offered three challenges, directed both to the Quakers present and to those from other Christian traditions: first, to do peace work as a calling, in order not to turn it into idolatry; second, to do peace work with joy, despite and in the midst of suffering; and third, to let go of “Anglo Quakerism” and to seek what the Latin American experience may have to offer.<\/p>\n

“What is our (Latin American) Quaker voice, and what does that voice have to say?” she asked. “How ready are we to let God take us into new territory? How ready are we to be surprised by God?”<\/p>\n

Webcasts from the conference are being offered at www.bethanyseminary.edu\/webcasts\/PeaceConf2010<\/a> . An online photo album has been started at www.brethren.org\/site\/PhotoAlbumUser?AlbumID=13041&view=UserAlbum<\/a> .<\/p>\n

— Cheryl Brumbaugh-Cayford is director of news services for the Church of the Brethren.<\/em><\/p>\n

(Noviembre 29, 2010) Santo Domingo, Rep\u00fablica Dominicana \u2013 Un d\u00eda completo de informes y reportes llevaron a cabo los participantes de la conferencia de Iglesias Hist\u00f3ricas de Paz en Am\u00e9rica Latina, que continuar\u00e1 hasta el jueves de esta semana en un centro Cat\u00f3lico para retiros en las afueras de Santo Domingo.<\/p>\n

Empezando con un recuento de la historia de los Amigos en Am\u00e9rica Latina y una mirada a los fundamentos Cu\u00e1queros para hacer paz, el grupo dedic\u00f3 el resto del d\u00eda a escuchar una serie de\u00a0 presentaciones, de 15 minutos, de una gran variedad de programas relacionados con paz y justicia en varios pa\u00edses e iglesias.<\/p>\n

La noche ofreci\u00f3 una breve historia de la isla compartida por Rep\u00fablica Dominicana y Hait\u00ed y las ra\u00edces coloniales de violencia que han marcado las relaciones de los dos pa\u00edses, presentada por el pastor Menonita Miqueas Ramirez de la Iglesia Evang\u00e9lica Menonita Luz y Vida en Santo Domingo.\u00a0 Un grupo Menonita estuvo a cargo de las devociones de la noche y peque\u00f1os grupos tuvieron la oportunidad de empezar a reflexionar sobre lo que han venido escuchando de otros participantes.<\/p>\n

La presentaci\u00f3n de apertura fue hecha por Adriana Cabrera de la sociedad de Amigos en Bogot\u00e1, Colombia y ofreci\u00f3 la imagen Cu\u00e1quera de una luz interior de Dios dentro de cada ser humano como el fundamento para hacer paz.<\/p>\n

Cabrera tiene una maestr\u00eda en divinidad de Earlham School of Religion<\/em> en Richmond, Indiana en los Estados Unidos y en Colombia dirige un programa relacionado con los derechos humanos.\u00a0 Su trabajo incluye los derechos reproductivos de la mujer y trabaja con la comunidad de homosexuales, lesbianas, bisexuales y transg\u00e9neros.<\/p>\n

Ella record\u00f3 al grupo que el concepto de la luz interior tambi\u00e9n significa que el trabajo de hacer paz empieza con nosotros mismos. \u00a0Una historia de lo que ella llama “el empuje colonialista” de los Cu\u00e1queros de los EE.UU –cuyos misioneros establecieron muchos de los grupos de Amigos en Am\u00e9rica Latina — trajo el punto a casa.\u00a0 En los primeros a\u00f1os de misi\u00f3n, dijo ella, era una pr\u00e1ctica com\u00fan el no ofrecer traducci\u00f3n al espa\u00f1ol durante las reuniones de negocios.\u00a0 Una mujer que trabajaba con los Cu\u00e1queros en M\u00e9jico renunci\u00f3 a causa de esta pr\u00e1ctica discriminatoria. \u00a0Su protesta prob\u00f3 ser transformacional. \u00a0\u00a0Cabrera relacion\u00f3 que no pas\u00f3 mucho tiempo antes de que se ofreciera interpretaci\u00f3n y traducci\u00f3n de los textos Cu\u00e1queros fundacionales.<\/p>\n

Ella hizo un llamado a la conferencia de Iglesias Hist\u00f3ricas de Paz exhortando a tomar el riesgo por la paz y justicia con una pasi\u00f3n similar. \u00a0Los grandes l\u00edderes Cu\u00e1queros a trav\u00e9s de la historia se han “sumergido en el agua” de abolici\u00f3n, ministerio de la prisi\u00f3n, reforma penal, como unos pocos ejemplos. “\u00bfQue nos inspira a nosotros?” pregunta ella, “\u00bfy para qui\u00e9n trabajamos?”<\/p>\n

Cabrera ofreci\u00f3 tres retos, dirigidos a los Cu\u00e1queros presentes y a aquellos de otras tradiciones Cristianas: primero, trabaja por la paz como un llamado, para que no se convierta en idolatr\u00eda; segundo, trabajar por la paz con j\u00fabilo, a pesar y en medio del sufrimiento: tercero, dejar ir al “Anglo Cuaquerismo” y perseguir lo que la experiencia Latino Americana tenga que ofrecer.\u00a0 “Cual es nuestra (Am\u00e9rica Latina) voz Cu\u00e1quera, y que es lo que esa voz tiene que decir?” pregunt\u00f3 ella.\u00a0 “\u00bfQu\u00e9 listos estamos para que Dios nos lleve a un territorio nuevo? \u00bfQu\u00e9 listos estamos para ser sorprendidos por Dios?”<\/p>\n

Se ofrecen grabaciones de la conferencia en el sitio Web: www.bethanyseminary.edu\/webcasts\/PeaceConf2010<\/a>. \u00a0Se ha empezado un \u00e1lbum de fotos en la red: www.brethren.org\/site\/PhotoAlbumUser?AlbumID=13041&view=UserAlbum<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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