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The 11th. World Forum on Theology and Liberation was held in Kathmandu, Nepal, on February 13th. to 19th., 2024. More of a seminar than a conference and working from a methodology of collaboration and sharing, the conversation focused on “Religion and politics: Critical views from the perspective of liberation and care”.

This focus was rich. It led us to discover the situation in Nepal between liberation and development. We could also connect two issues presented in the WSF program: Indigenous Spiritualities in the Nexus of Politics and Colonial Religions and Palestine in the Nexus of Politics and Religious Rhetoric. Doing this created an auspicious space for a real encounter between some indigenous feminist theologians from South Asia and some distinguished thinkers from Bethlehem, Palestine. Both recognized mutually some common grounds:  their connection to a land, their resilience, their desire for justice, and their desire to develop some collaboration together. From this, the delegation decided to create a theological program about theology after Gaza, as the war of the Israeli army against Gaza had been raging for four months.