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Community Banking and Microfinance in the Global South

open access: yesJournal of International Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Microfinance is promoted for empowering women, financial inclusion and eradicating poverty. Started as non‐profit services in South Asia and South America, critics point out that microfinance has become a business. Simultaneously, age‐old traditional community banking has been flourishing today without necessarily reducing the demand for ...
Karoliina Kantola
wiley   +1 more source

The World Council of Churches Assembly in New Delhi 1961 and the German Democratic Republic:

open access: yesRevista de História da Sociedade e da Cultura
The Third Assembly in New Delhi in November/December 1961 marked a watershed in the process of de-Westernisation for the World Council of Churches (WCC), an ecumenical umbrella body founded in Amsterdam in 1948.
Frieder Ludwig
doaj   +1 more source

Ecumenism and Church Relations

open access: yesSt Andrews Encyclopaedia of Theology, 2023
Ecumenism refers to the wide and multifaceted movement to advance Christian fellowship and the unity of the church. The contemporary ecumenical movement was preceded by nineteenth-century missionary and youth movements mobilizing Christians from various ...
Minna Hietamäki
doaj  

Geochronology of the Whittlesey sedimentary succession, eastern England: The ‘Pompeii’ of the British late Middle Pleistocene to Holocene record

open access: yesJournal of Quaternary Science, EarlyView.
Abstract The sedimentary succession at Whittlesey preserves a unique British late Middle Pleistocene to Holocene record back to a time equivalent to at least marine oxygen isotope stage 8 (ca. 250 ka). This study builds on previously published sedimentology, geochronology and palaeoecology results to establish 20 sedimentary facies associations, with ...
H. E. Langford   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

How did it become possible? Supranational Ecumenical developments and changes in Religious Education during the 1960s and 1970s [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
ArticleThis is the final version of the article. Available from Karlstads Universitet via the link in this record.Existing historiographies of Religious Education (RE) are often written from within national boundaries, reflecting the particular ...
Doney, J
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Serious Illness Conversation in the Care of Atypical Parkinsonian Disorders: A Practical Guide for Neurology Clinicians

open access: yesMovement Disorders Clinical Practice, EarlyView.
Abstract Background Compared to Parkinson's disease, atypical parkinsonian disorders (APD) are characterized by a more rapidly progressive course, often leading to profound disability. Effective communication between clinicians, patients, and care partners is essential to support patient‐centered care and shared decision‐making.
Michiko K. Bruno   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

An Ecumenical Experiment in Colonial Hong Kong: The Start of the Tsuen Wan Ecumenical Social Service Centre (1973 to 1997) and Its Local Praxis

open access: yesReligions, 2019
Based on both documentary research and a series of interviews, this study retrieves the ecumenical spirit of the beginning of the dismissed Tsuen Wan Ecumenical Social Service Centre (TWESSC), a Christian non-governmental organization.
Wai-Yin Christina Wong
doaj   +1 more source

Do Iron Curtains Happen More than Once?

open access: yes, 2011
Two separations significant for World Christendom commemorated their 50th birthdays on 13 August: the construction of the Berlin Wall and the splitting up of the “All-Union Council of Evangelical Christians-Baptists”.
Yoder, Dr. William
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A Framework for Understanding and Evaluating Localization: The Case of HelpAge International

open access: yesPublic Administration and Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Many transnational non‐governmental organizations (TNGOs) are reevaluating their organizational forms and norms as they pursue localization. Localization itself is a contested and multifaceted concept, however, complicating the design, implementation, and evaluation of localization efforts.
Hans Peter Schmitz, George E. Mitchell
wiley   +1 more source

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