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Exactly forty years after the Conference which laid the ground for the World Council of Churches Programme to Combat Racism, some fifty church leaders, activists and theologians working on issues related to racism and related forms of exclusion, will meet in the Dutch village of Doorn, municipality of Utrecht, to look at the forms and features of racism today and come up with action plans for the churches.
The participants from different parts of the world are united by their efforts to build inclusive churches and communities, to resist racist discrimination within their societies and to empower the excluded.
Analysis, theological reflection and building networks for common action will be the tools by which the conference seeks to promote inclusivity as theological and ethical responses to racism.
The beginning will be marked by a public Thanksgiving Service for the witness through the Programme to Combat Racism on Sunday, 14 June at the Maartenskerk in Doorn. The programme contributed to the struggles to end apartheid in South Africa and has inspired and supported indigenous people in different parts of the world, oppressed groups in Australia, New Zealand, North and South America, as well as the Dalit communities in India.
A message of commitment will be read out during the closing public worship service at the end of the conference.
The conference is organized by the WCC in cooperation with the Council of Churches in the Netherlands, the association of migrant churches in the Netherlands SKIN , the missionary and diaconal agency KerkinActie, the interchurch organization for development cooperation ICCO and the ecumenical advocacy group Oikos.