World Forum on Theology and Liberation.
Spirituality for another Possible World

The 2nd WORLD FORUM ON THEOLOGY AND LIBERATION took place in Nairobi on January 16 to 19, 2007. The first WFTL had been held in Porto Alegre in January of 2005, and its results are published in the book, Teologia para outro mundo possível, edited by Luiz Carlos Susin, São Paulo: Edições Paulinas, 2006, 485 pp. The 2nd Forum’s theme was “Spirituality for another Possible World.” It had 300 participants, most of them from Africa, particularly from Nairobi, followed by Europe, America, Asia and Oceania. ANOTHER WORLD: that is what we need and we feel that this is possible with the contribution of all continents. And Africa has an outstanding role as the bearer of the largest reserves of resistance and hope on the planet.

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The visit to Kibera and Korogocho
 “One enters Kibera with a feeling of pity and leaves with a feeling of admiration”

The WFTL in Nairobi exposed its participants to the shock of Africa´s reality. Nairobi has almost 3 million inhabitants, fifty percent of them living in only 5% of the territory in the slums of Kibera and Korogocho. It is said that 700 thousand people live in Kibera, Africa’s largest slum. As orphans of society, they have to make use of their creativity in a situation of informality … After the shock comes the pleasant surprise. Kibera is not only a part of Africa that exhibits misery and suffering. In Kibera, 24 different nations live together, with their own languages and cultures. Some of them are refugees from neighbor countries. And they keep on coming, from Sudan and Somalia, because there all of them are welcomed and there is place for everyone.

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