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Spiritually Caring for Creation’s Health
Elina Welmiria Otu The Netherlands-Indonesia Consortium for Muslim-Christian Relations (NICMCR) organized a webinar under the theme “Spiritual Care & Planetary Health” on October 26, 2023. This webinar was led by Frans Wijsen as moderator. As the opening words, he introduced the gender working group of NICMCR, which was founded in 2019, as the organizer […]
Controversy of love for LGBT in Christian and Islamic texts
Elina Otu June Beckx Views on religious texts containing sexual and gender-fluid orientations were presented on a special webinar “Why Can’t I Love the One I Love, reviewing Sexual Orientation and Gender-Fluid Expression through the Lens of Religious Texts”, organized by the NICMCR Pokja Gender on November 3, 2021. Apparantly, the debate about the acceptance […]
The Role of Women in Extremism
Essay on NICMCR Webinar dated on September 28, 2021 by Amadeo Udampoh On September 28, 2021, the Netherlands-Indonesia Consortium on Muslim-Christian Relations (NICMR) organized a webinar under the theme “The Role of Women in Extremism”. The webinar was moderated by Khanis Suvianita, a Ph.D. candidate at Indonesia Consortium for Religious Studies at Gajah Mada University, […]
Reading Challenging Texts in the Holy Scriptures
Did you know? 82.4 million people worldwide, were forcibly displaced at the end of 2020 because of persecution, conflict, violence, human rights violations, and public order disturbance (data by UNHCR). While sources of these problems vary, religious misinterpretations of some texts in the Holy Scriptures fuel some of these conflicts. Hence, understanding and reading these […]