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Since they started in 1970, the french association Femmes & Hommes en Église "Women & Men in Church" is committed to :
° Promote new relations
between women and men along to the Gospel's prophetism.
° Reject any way of domination
and discrimination related to sex in society and in churches.
° Enhance the parity
order to guarantee equality between human beings in right and dignity.
° Participate to feminist research,
especially on gender in Christianity.
° Change
the behaviours, mentalities, models and languages.
° Create new practices
of coresponsability and partenership.
"Femmes & Hommes en Église" support :
Feminism and UNO meetings women
" The NGO believe that the incease of religious extremisms
threats the women'abitlity to exert all their rights in full equality. "
European-North American regional Conference in Geneva June 2000
European Movement for a free Church
"Equal dignity of all Christians doesn't allow using a sexist language in the Church documents.
In the same way, the Church shouldn't use exclusively masculine representations of God and masculine symbols,
with respect of each language's genius."
Declaration of Rights and freedoms in the Catholic Church
- 1994 - art. 1.3°
Vatican II Council
" Any way of discrimination in respect to the basic rights of the person, whatever it is,
social or cultural, based on sex, race, skin's colour, social condition, language or religion,
is to be over passed and eliminated, as opposed to the God's plan."
Church in today's world - 29,2
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