In the month of June each year we organize a course for missionaries and volunteers who come from different countries to work in Peru. The course offers an introduction to the Peruvian reality from the historic, economic, political, cultural and religious aspects.

Inscription Form from International Course: http://www.bcasas.org.pe/cursointernacional/

Programme: Introduction to the Peruvian Reality Course, 04- 22 June 2007

 Context

• A look at the past to better understand the present.

• The years of political violence and their consequences.

• The economic reality and its contrasts.

• Political context.

• Social problems.

 The actors

• A multicultural and intercultural country.

• The Andean and Amazonian communities.

• Peruvian women.

• Young people, their hopes and problems.

• Psychological aspects of immersion in a different culture.

 Specific problems

• A summary of the decentralization reform.

• Climate change, the environment and mining.

• The role of the media.

• Educative and health problems.

• Globalization: challenges and possibilities.

 Prospects: civil society and the Church

• Civil society: its process.

• The Truth and Reconciliation Comisión and its recommendations.

• The history of the Church in Latin America.

• Liberation Theology.

• V Latin American Episcopal Conference.

Duration: 2th- 20nd June 2008

Time: from 9am to 1pm, Monday to Friday.

Place: Instituto Bartolomé de Las Casas, Belisario Flores 687,Lince

Registration: 29 de mayo 2008

Telephone: 4723410/4709088

Email: sheila@bcasas.org.pe (Sheila Curran)
           charlie@bcasas.org.pe (Charlie Smith)

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