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CCA Appoints Dr. Erlinda Senturias as HIV and AIDS ConsultantDr. Prawate Khid-arn, General Secretary of the Christian Conference of Asia (CCA) appointed Dr. Erlinda N. Senturias from the United Church of Christ in the Philippines as Consultant on HIV and AIDS effective January 1, 2009. Dr. Senturias succeeds Orthodox priest, Fr. Philip Kuruvilla, who served for three years as home-based Consultant of CCA.
Dr. Senturias' home office is in Paradise Farm and Forest Park, Barangay Payong-Payong, Pigkawayan 9412, Cotabato in Central Mindanao, Philippines. With the cyberspace working anywhere in the world is possible. Dr. Senturias was a former Executive Secretary for Health and Healing of the World Council of Churches (WCC) from1989-1997, where she coordinated the HIV and AIDS Program. She coordinated the AIDS Working Group that published A Guide to Pastoral Counseling, edited by Rev. Jorge Maldonado. Dr. Senturias together with Ms. Kambale Kavuo coordinated the participatory action research on AIDS and the community as a source of Care and Healing in Uganda, Tanzania and Zaire from 1991-1993. The result of the research was reported at the WCC Central Committee meeting in Johannesburg in January 1994. This led to the formation of the consultative group on AIDS to look into the pastoral, ethical, human rights, prevention, care and support of people living with HIV and AIDS, and human rights and justice. The result of the global study was reported in the Central Committee moderated by Dr. Christoph Benn, now the current Director on Partnership of the Global Fund on AIDS, TB and Malaria. The result of the study was published as a World Council of Churches Study Document: Facing AIDS - The Challenge, the Chuches' Response was published in 1997. Dr. Senturias was alternate delegate for Europe to the Program Coordination Board of UNAIDS. She left WCC to serve as President of Southern Christian College in Midsayap, Cotabato for ten years. At that time, she continued to help CCA as resource person on HIV and AIDS. She learned much about HIV and AIDS from people living with HIV and AIDS who were part of the different activities she coordinated. People who inspired her were Ernesto Cardoso, Brazilian lay theologian; Yupa Sutta of Thailand; Rev. Sanan and Jaruwan Wutti and the other staff members of the Church of Christ in Thailand AIDS Ministry (CAM); and many people she met in Africa, Asia, Latin America, North America, and Central Europe in Romania, where she visited together with the Romanian Orthodox priests in Constanca, the last seminar she conducted during her stint in the World Council of Churches.
Dr. Senturias is currently editing the book, A Handbook on HIV and AIDS: Guidelines for an Interfaith Response, a joint program of the Asian Interfaith Network on AIDS (AINA) and the CCA. She is coordinating the participation of CCA members and interfaith groups in the Pre-Conference gatherings of the International Congress on AIDS in Asia and the Pacific in Bali, Indonesia on August 4-9, 2009. The handbook will be launched during the interfaith gathering on August 8. Asian Ecumenical Leaders will revisit the "Pastoral Guidelines on HIV and AIDS" produced during the time of Fr. Kuruvilla. CAM and the United Evangelical Mission (UEM) will present their HIV and AIDS programs. People living with HIV and AIDS are full participants and resource speakers during the event. In the interfaith meeting, the four networks on AIDS will make a report: Asian Interfaith Network on AIDS (AINA), Interfaith Network on AIDS in Thailand (INAT), Indian Interfaith Network on AIDS (IINA), and Indonesian Interfaith Network on AIDS (INTERNA). Faith leaders will come from Buddhist, Christian, Islam and Hindu traditions. Funds are still being solicited for more participation of the interfaith communities.
Dr. Senturias has already approached the program areas on Faith, Mission and Unity to coordinate the theological consultations, the Justice, Human Rights, International Affairs and Development and Service to coordinate the rights-based programming on HIV and AIDS, curriculum development for use of youth, women, Christian educators to be coordinated by Ecumenical Formation, Gender Justice, and Youth Empowerment, and the South-to-South Ecumenical and Interfaith Learning Program to be co-organized with CAM and the Mekong Ecumenical Partnership Program (MEPP) for the 6 Mekong countries: Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam, Yunnan Province in China, and Myanmar.
Dr. Senturias hopes that there will be greater involvement of CCA member Churches, Council of Churches, movements, Faith Based Organizations (FBO) and people living with HIV and AIDS. Labels: CCA HIV and AIDS Ministry 2009-2010 posted by CCA HIV and AIDS Ministry on 5:50 PM |
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