WCC to host global webinar on dismantling racism and caste-based discrimination

[World Council of Churches] The World Council of Churches, through its program on overcoming racism, xenophobia and related discriminations, will convene a webinar on March 2, titled “Interrogating the Intersections of Caste-Discrimination and Racial Discrimination in Asia (and Beyond),” in commemoration of the United Nations International Zero Discrimination Day.

Rooted in the World Council of Churches’ longstanding conviction that “racism is a sin against God and a sin against fellow human beings” (WCC 5th Assembly, 1975), and reaffirmed by the WCC central committee’s 2009 declaration that caste-based discrimination is a crime and casteism a sin, this webinar calls the global church and wider society into courageous truth-telling and transformative action.

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