Mourning for Helga Trösken in the Ecumenical Movement

Many people in the ecumenical movement mourn the loss of Helga Trösken. Throughout her life she was closely connected with the concerns of ecumenism. Among other things, she was marked through her time in the Ecumenical Institute in Bossey/Switzerland and the World Council of Churches (WCC) in Geneva. She took up thoughts of South Korean liberation theology (Minjung theology) and when on 18 May 1980 demonstrations in the South Korean city of Gwangju were bloodily suppressed by the military dictatorship, she supported the concerns of the democracy movement. … „Mourning for Helga Trösken in the Ecumenical Movement“ weiterlesen