Training in Interreligious Relations offered for Young Adults - updated
2/11/2020
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The World Methodist Council is partnering with other organizations in offering training for Young Adults on Interreligious Relations that started in Asia and is now expanding globally. This year’s Young Adult Training for Religions Amity (YATRA) will take place in the Fijis.
The intensive training course is scheduled May 15-27, 2020, said Bishop Rosemarie Wenner, who is the Geneva Secretary of the World Methodist Council, noting that the training was part of work for stronger connections between Methodist Churches and the World Council of Churches (WCC).
The WCC’s interreligious training programme YATRA (Youth in Asia Training for Religious Amity) was launched by the World Council of Churches after its 10th Assembly in 2013 but is now taking a new format.
YATRA 2020 will be a collaboration between the World Council of Churches, Pacific Council of Churches (PCC), the World Communion of Reformed Churches (WCRC), the Council for World Mission (CWM), and the World Methodist Council (WMC)
The application consists of the following parts:
Only complete applications that have reached us by the deadline of 15 February 2020, will be considered. We cannot follow up on incomplete applications. All applicants will be informed by 1 March on the outcome of the selection process.
Email applications to youth@wcc-coe.org with “YATRA” and your family name in the subject line of email.
For more information and for registration, click on the link below:
https://www.oikoumene.org/en/press-centre/news/wccs-interreligious-yatra-programme-to-be-expanded
The intensive training course is scheduled May 15-27, 2020, said Bishop Rosemarie Wenner, who is the Geneva Secretary of the World Methodist Council, noting that the training was part of work for stronger connections between Methodist Churches and the World Council of Churches (WCC).
The WCC’s interreligious training programme YATRA (Youth in Asia Training for Religious Amity) was launched by the World Council of Churches after its 10th Assembly in 2013 but is now taking a new format.
YATRA 2020 will be a collaboration between the World Council of Churches, Pacific Council of Churches (PCC), the World Communion of Reformed Churches (WCRC), the Council for World Mission (CWM), and the World Methodist Council (WMC)
YATRA 2020
Partners:
YATRA 2020 will be a joint collaboration between the World Council of Churches, Pacific Council of Churches (PCC), the World Communion of Reformed Churches (WCRC) the Council for World Mission (CWM), and the World Methodist Council (WMC).
It will be a cross programmatic venture of the WCC’s programme on Interreligious Dialogue and Cooperation, and the programme on Youth Engagement in the Ecumenical Movement.
The Venue:
The residential period of YATRA 2020 will take place in Fiji.
Dates:
Deadline for applications: 15 February 2020
Announcement of outcome of selection: by 1 March 2020
Online learning from 20 April to 12 May 2020
Residential phase from 15-27 May 2020 (arrivals all day 15 May, departures all day 27 May)
The Theme:
YATRA 2020 will explore the theme “Young People in the Frontline of Transformation.” It will offer an opportunity to rethink in a creative and critical manner what it means to “act justly, love mercy, and walk humbly with our God” and alongside our neighbours of other faiths.
The Structure of the Programme:
The YATRA programme will include four weeks of intensive online learning followed by two weeks of residential learning for those who have successfully completed their online training. The residential training will include workshops, bible studies, academic lectures, study of recent ecumenical and interreligious documents, contextual analysis, exposure visits and the cross-cultural experience of living together and learning from each other.
Eligibility:
YATRA 2020 is open to young Christians between 20 and 35 years. Applicants should have completed at least a Bachelor’s degree or its equivalent, and must be positioned to influence their churches and ecumenical organisations to be actively engaged in interreligious work. Applicants are requested to have a recommendation and endorsement from their church or organization. Balanced representation in terms of region, denomination and gender will be ensured in the selection process.
YATRA 2020 will be a joint collaboration between the World Council of Churches, Pacific Council of Churches (PCC), the World Communion of Reformed Churches (WCRC) the Council for World Mission (CWM), and the World Methodist Council (WMC).
It will be a cross programmatic venture of the WCC’s programme on Interreligious Dialogue and Cooperation, and the programme on Youth Engagement in the Ecumenical Movement.
The Venue:
The residential period of YATRA 2020 will take place in Fiji.
Dates:
Deadline for applications: 15 February 2020
Announcement of outcome of selection: by 1 March 2020
Online learning from 20 April to 12 May 2020
Residential phase from 15-27 May 2020 (arrivals all day 15 May, departures all day 27 May)
The Theme:
YATRA 2020 will explore the theme “Young People in the Frontline of Transformation.” It will offer an opportunity to rethink in a creative and critical manner what it means to “act justly, love mercy, and walk humbly with our God” and alongside our neighbours of other faiths.
The Structure of the Programme:
The YATRA programme will include four weeks of intensive online learning followed by two weeks of residential learning for those who have successfully completed their online training. The residential training will include workshops, bible studies, academic lectures, study of recent ecumenical and interreligious documents, contextual analysis, exposure visits and the cross-cultural experience of living together and learning from each other.
Eligibility:
YATRA 2020 is open to young Christians between 20 and 35 years. Applicants should have completed at least a Bachelor’s degree or its equivalent, and must be positioned to influence their churches and ecumenical organisations to be actively engaged in interreligious work. Applicants are requested to have a recommendation and endorsement from their church or organization. Balanced representation in terms of region, denomination and gender will be ensured in the selection process.
The application consists of the following parts:
- Top page for application, to be filled and signed by applicant
- Personal Application (Part 1)
- Essay (Part 2)
- Church Endorsement and Financial Pledge (Part 3, to be completed by church)
- Tuition fees and Scholarship request (Part 4, to be completed by applicant)
Only complete applications that have reached us by the deadline of 15 February 2020, will be considered. We cannot follow up on incomplete applications. All applicants will be informed by 1 March on the outcome of the selection process.
Email applications to youth@wcc-coe.org with “YATRA” and your family name in the subject line of email.
For more information and for registration, click on the link below:
https://www.oikoumene.org/en/press-centre/news/wccs-interreligious-yatra-programme-to-be-expanded