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Indian researcher Parinitha Shetty has looked into the history of the Basel Mission in South India - and says that the mission's presence has shaped Indian society to this day. Parinitha Shetty, I have brought you this photograph from the Mission 21 research archive. Do you know the photograph? Yes,...
For the last time, our colleague Luzia Illiger is writing a newsletter from Isoko, Tanzania. She worked as a gynecologist in the country for three years. Now Luzia Illiger looks back on an eventful time: on her various fields of work, on her contact with the local population and on her busy renovation work. "Over the past three...
The magazine "begegnen" is Mission 21's donor magazine and is published four times a year. The magazine contains information and stories about Mission 21's projects and the people behind them. Among other things, the current issue focuses on various projects that promote peace. The magazine "begegnen"...
Our colleague Daniel Gloor is a lecturer in biblical studies at the STS Theological Seminary in Sabah, Malaysia. He has experienced very special Christmas celebrations in two small congregations deep in the Malaysian hinterland of Borneo. He reports on this in his newsletter. In his current newsletter, Daniel Gloor also addresses a very serious topic....
Great honor for former Mission 21 employee, Pastor Hans Lutz. He received an honorary doctorate at the Dies Academicus 2023 of the University of Basel. Hans Lutz has worked for the Basel Mission for over 50 years and then for Mission 21 in Hong Kong. As part of this work, he will now...
Violent images from Israel and the Gaza Strip are shocking the whole world. However, the "Sternberg" rehabilitation center for children and young people in Palestine, which is supported by Mission 21, is only indirectly affected by this.
She is considered one of Indonesia's ten most influential women: psychologist Alissa Wahid, co-founder of a network promoting human rights, interfaith understanding and democracy. Alissa Wahid is also co-leader of the largest Muslim association in the world. On Thursday, August 17, she will deliver the keynote address at the International Forum for Interfaith and...
What can churches and faith-based organizations do to ensure that Switzerland actually meets the requirements of the Climate Protection Act by 2050, namely to stop emitting greenhouse gases into the atmosphere? This is what the newspaper reformiert. asks in its full-page front article in the July issue on Switzerland's "Yes" to climate protection - mission...
In the webinar of the series "Mission-Colonialism Revisited", two historians from Basel and Delhi reported on childhood and childhood in the environment of the Basel Mission in the 19th century. They shed light on the educational principles of the mission and their impact in different cultural contexts. In the current webinar of the series "Mission-Colonialism Revisited", Dr. Dagmar Konrad gave...
Daniel Gloor has been teaching theology in Malaysia for almost twenty years. His students at the theological seminary in Sabah (STS) are interested in teaching, but hardly active politically, says the international staff member of Mission 21. Quite different are the students in Latin America, whom he recently met during a stay in Peru and Costa Rica....