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Letter from the participants of Ecumenical AIDS consultationNovember 2, 2005 Dear Member Churches and Councils Ecumenical friends and organisations We, the participants of the Ecumenical AIDS consultation 2005 "Keep the commitments: Stop AIDS" held in Bangkok, Thailand from October 28-November 1, 2005 recommit ourselves to the Statement of Commitment by religious leaders made at the 15th International AIDS Conference 2004 to work together to respond to the urgent challenges posed by HIV and AIDS to individuals, communities and the global human family. We heard, discussed and deliberated on a range of issues and strategies to monitor and evaluate the principles, policies and guidelines that underline positive action. We are encouraged that the Church can achieve much more than it has in the areas of awareness building, training, networking and advocacy to overcome prejudice, ignorance, fear and judgmental attitudes. In the light of this, we call upon all member churches endowed with their rich experience and unique spiritual strenghts to continue to:
The CCA jointly with the St John's HIV Education and the Hong Kong Christian Council has released a litugy that can be adopted my member churches for use in worship on AIDS Sunday 2005. We encourage and invite you to observe World AIDS Sunday on December 4, 2005. The lirugy can be downloaded from the website of the Christian Conference of Asia: www.cca.org.hk or St John's HIV Educations Centre: www.sjhivctr.com We thank you agian for your support and prayer for the Ecumenical AIDS consultation. We look forward with anticipations to working tgether to reduce the prejudice and stigma that surround HIV/AIDS and bring God's love and healing to our broken and hurting world. Yours in Christ, Dr Prawate Kind-arm Mrs UsaneeNanasil Rev Sanan Wutti
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