Geneva,
16. “We are saying no to violence and discrimination without any ‘but’ or
‘maybe’. Our religious texts are a source of inspiration for just
relationships.Through political instruments, like the UN system, we can connect
the local with the global in our work for gender justice”. These words of
Reverend Dr. Martin Junge, General Secretary of the Lutheran World Federation,
explain how, today more than ever, the affirmation of human rights and gender
justice must be priorities for religious organizations. He spoke on the
occasion of the training conference that recently took place at the Ecumenical
Centre of the World Council of Churches (WCC) in Geneva, which considered the
role
