North America region launches Lent Devotional: Journeying Towards Peace
WSCF: Stop Attacks on Trade Union Leaders in Zimbabwe!
The World Student Christian Federation (WSCF) and its Zimbabwe Advocacy Office (ZAO) wish to express shock and outrage at the recent wave of attacks on trade union leaders by police and security forces in Zimbabwe.
WSCF Solidarity plan on Identity, Diversity and Dialogue
We, the participants at the WSCF Identity, Diversity, and Dialogue Programme met in Thailand in December 2009 to consider WSCF’s theme for 2009.
WSCF calls for release of 43 arrested and tortured in Philippines
The World Student Christian Federation calls for an immediate release of 43 doctors and health workers arrested in the Philippines
Universal Day of Prayer for Students 2010
First celebrated in 1898, the Universal Day of Prayer for Students (UDPS) is observed on the third Sunday of February. The UDPS is one of the oldest ecumenical days of prayer.
WSCF Latin America letter on the disaster in Haiti
We take this opportunity to write with much pain for the situation we are facing in Haiti, and have tried at great length to communicate with the Rev. Esdras Salomón, the representative for SCM Haiti; to this date we have been unsuccessful in reaching him.
GLOBAL OPPORTUNITY: 1st World Youth Meeting for a Sustainable Future
This large global gathering seeks to promote sustainable development and youth participation in decision-making at both local and global level, with 500 youth leaders from around the world.
Justice for the victims of Maguindanao massacre, no to martial law!
SCM PHILIPPINES – November 23 was an infamous day that shocked the entire nation and the world when unarmed civilians who were part of a convoy of Ampatuans’ major political rival was abducted and subsequently massacred in Maguindanao province, southern Philippines.
USA Student Christian Movement in the Midst of Resurrection
Steering Committee gathers from across the United States to plan rebirth of
movement.
SCM Philippines working in relief effort
SCM Philippines is spear-heading a relief drive by young people. The Filipino people are attempting to recover after 33.4 cm (12 inches) of rain fell in just 16 hours on Saturday September 26. The rains, caused by tropical storm Ketsana (Typhoon Ondoy) have killed over 250 people and displaced at least 500,000. SCM Philippines is mobilizing young people and senior friends in response to the devastation of the storm.
WSCF sees wall of silence after Iraq attacks on Christians
A series of attacks on Iraq’s Christian community in July were deliberately coordinated, but the government is not paying sufficient attention to them and they have received scant media attention, says the World Student Christian Federation.
Christian student activists unite in San Francisco
Eighty students from across the U.S., Canada and the world are gathering January 29 – February 1 in San Francisco for a historic conference bringing together progressive Christians with a global vision of change. ‘Raising New Prophets: Arising of a Movement’ is the first North American conference of the World Student Christian Federation (WSCF) in decades and is re-launching a Student Christian Movement in the U.S.
WSCF GA Stewards Blog: Lynda Mandeng
My name is Lynda and I am a student and member of the Student Christian Association of Cameroun and and of the World Student Christian Federation in the North America Region.
Letter of welcome to 180 delegates at the 34th WSCF General Assembly, in Montreal, Quebec
On behalf of the Student Christian Movement of Canada, I wish to welcome you here to Montreal, Quebec. We’re very excited to get to meet representatives of the other SCM movements from around the world; to be part of the incredible GA Commissions addressing topics of theology, solidarity, leadership and capacity; and to gather with Assembly Stewards (volunteers) to pray, serve, learn and inspire during the course of the GA.
