Giving continuity to its work of creating awareness among the Pastors and Church leaders about the role of Church in the present context of Nepal and playing a role of catalyst to develop regional and local level unity among the Churches, NCCN with the support of the local coordinating committee formed by the Churches
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NCCN General Secretary Dr. K. B Rokaya addressing the conference in Nepalgunj
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in Nepalgunj organized the first ever biggest conference of the Pastors and Church leaders in Mid West Nepal from 2 – 5 October 2007. In the conference organized in Nepalgunj with the theme "Role of Christians in building New Nepal" about 200 Pastors and key leaders of the Church took part from 15 Districts of Mid West Nepal.
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Rogers Witte Ann(Right), Co-executive of Global Ministries USA, addressing the conference
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NCCN General Secretary Dr. K.B. Rokaya, Co-executive of Global Ministries USA Rogers Witte Ann and the Southern Asia Director of Global Ministries USA Rev. Dr. James Vijayakumar worked as resourceperson for this programme.
The main topics and issues discussed in the conference were role of Christians for building just and equitable society, peace, justice, human rights and role to be played by the Church and Christian community, the contextual application of the scripture, gospel and culture, importance of unity among the churches, importance of inter-religious dialogue and interfaith cooperation etc.
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The Southern Asia Director of Global Ministries, USA Rev. Dr. James Vijayakumar (Right) addressing the conference
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Being impressed by the topics and issues discussed in the conference, the participants formed Mid West Regional Christian Council (MWRCC) to give continuity to the issues discussed and to work as representative body of Christians in this region.
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The Christians in mid-west Nepal felicitating Dr.K.B. Rokaya for getting apponted as the commissioner of NHRC
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On the 5th October, the final day of the conference, the newly formed MWRCC organized an inter-religious interaction and media get-together programme on the theme "Role of religious communities in building new Nepal" in the same venue which was attended by the representatives of Hindu, Islam, Sikh , Christian, Bramhakumari and other major religious groups and sub-groups , local government officials,
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A Shikh leader addressing the inter-religious interaction and media get-together programme
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media , district level leaders of political parties and civil society members. Speaking at the program the participants praised the efforts being made by NCCN to bring together various religious communities in Nepal and create an environment of religious harmony, co-existence, understanding and cooperation.
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The programme expansion officer of NCCN, Mr. R.C Acharya briefing about NCCN activities at the inter-religious interaction
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In the same programme, the MWRCC, on behalf of the Christian community in Mid-west region of Nepal, honored Dr. K.B. Rokaya for getting appointed as one of the commissioners of the National Human Rights commission and for his continuous efforts to unite christian community and providing leadership to them to work for peace, justice, human rights, religious freedom and development.
