11th World Forum on Theology and Liberation
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.
Read our Statement of the World Forum on Theology and Liberation (WFTL) at the 2024 Kathmandu World Social Forum (WSF).
Past meetings
- 10th Edition WFTL (Online, May and June 2022)
- 9th Edition WFTL (Online, January 2021)
- 8th Edition WFTL (Salvador de Bahia – Brazil 2018)
- 7th Edition WFTL (Montreal – Canada 2016)
- 5th-6th Edition WFTL (Tunis – Tunisia, 2013-2015)
- 4th Edition WFTL (Dakar – Senegal, 2011)
- 3rd Edition WFTL (Belém – Brazil, 2009)
- 2nd Edition WFTL (Nairobi – Kenya, 2007)
- 1st Edition WFTL (Porto Alegre – Brazil, 2005)