![]() There are 1,859 cities and more than 1.2 million students in the 1st and 2nd grades of public elementary education benefiting from this collaboration. Today, this work encompasses 11 Brazilian states, which are working to improve literacy rates in the country. The work in Ceará inspired the Lemann Foundation in a collaborative project, in partnership with Instituto Natura, to extend Sobral's educational success to other municipalities and states. After this experience, the State of Ceará developed the Literacy Program in the Right Age (PAIC), through which 92.7% of its 1,28 million children became literate at second grade. ![]() In 2015, Sobral became the city with the best Basic Education Quality Index (Ideb, in Portuguese) in the country. The local government created a plan aimed at eradicating illiteracy, reducing school dropout rates and valuing the pedagogical management of schools. There are also emblematic examples in education, such as the city of Sobral, in Ceará. This collaboration allowed the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation to produce over 1 million doses of vaccines per day in 2021, a crucial effort to fight the pandemic in the country. During the pandemic, for example, with the commitment and collaboration of public entities and private social investments, as well as the articulation of a multisectoral coalition of which the Lemann Foundation played an important role, the country inaugurated the first laboratory with public funding in the world, to produce doses of Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine against Covid. Second, we have excellent initiatives showing that, through collaborations, it is possible to make a difference for the better with scale and quality – even in the dimensions of a continental country like ours.įurthermore, Brazil has a network of 820,000 civil society organizations that work with local and regional governments to find solutions to diagnosed problems. Brazil has been facing many of the issues common to the planet as a whole, from social inequality and access to health to the defense of human rights and the guarantee of quality education. First, the country is a microcosm that represents many of the global challenges. J.There are two views around which my answer orbits. Global Catholicism: Diverse, Troubled, Holding Steady by: Carney, J. ![]() Theme 2: Freedom of Mind by: Simon, Xolile, et al. Reimagining GO and SEND Mission Paradigms for an Age of Global Migration and World Christianity by: George, Sam Published: (2023) Learning from the Herstory of Preaching in the Global South: Reflections on the Preaching Lives of Rebecca Protten and Dora Yu by: Clark, Edgar “Trey” Published: (2021)Įcumenical Theological Education in the Context of World Christianity by: Sinner, Rudolf von 1967- Published: (2022) What To Do with World Religions? by: Ramey, Steven W. Migration and the Making of Global Christianity by: Jeyaraj, Daniel 1955- Published: (2022) Sex Reassignment Technology: The Dilemma of Transsexuals in Islam and Christianity by: Mohd. We reap what we sew: perpetuating biblical illiteracy in new English Religious Studies exams and the proof text binary question by: Bowie, Robert A., et al. Published: (2022)Įvangelizing White Americans: Sacrifice, Race, and a Korean Mission Movement in America by: Kim, Rebecca Y. The Making and Shaping of World Christianity: Commemorating the Legacies of Andrew F. Unheard Voices from the Global South by: Fraley, Austin Published: (2018)Ī New Ecumenism? Christian Unity in a Global Church by: Rausch, Thomas P. The Role of Christian Women in the Global South by: Ma, Julie Published: (2014)Ĭhristianity’s shift from the Global North to the Global South by: Hickman, Albert W. The article concludes with a discussion of some of the problematic presuppositions of this construct.Ī Mission to the “Graveyard of Empires”? Neocolonialism and the Contemporary Evangelical Missions of the Global South by: Nami, Kim Published: (2010) The article also argues that this binary forms the fulcrum of a particular conceptualization of world Christianity as a postcolonial project, theorized by Lamin Sanneh, and shows how this postcolonial agenda fashions the representation of migrant Christianity in Europe. ![]() It argues that this triangulation is brought into play to underscore the binary of the vibrancy and growth of Christianity in the global South' on the one hand and the decline and decay of European Christianity on the other, and that both the selective representation of migrant Christianity and its discursive functionality within triangulation aim to reinforce this binary. This article investigates the discursive triangulation of migrant Christianity in Europe, European Christianity and Christianity in the global South' in certain world Christianity discourses, with particular attention for the representation and discursive functionality of migrant Christianity within this triangulation. ![]()
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