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8/27/2010 7:58 PM

Press releases published during the IPCA conference
World Conference for Prison Chaplains opened in Stockholm
The international conference Forgotten People opened Friday night at the Clarion Hotel in Stockholm, Sweden. Arranging the Conference is IPCA, the International Prison Chaplains´International.
The conference, with its approximately 300 participants, received greetings from the Director General of the Swedish Prison and Probation Service Lars Nylén, the Lutheran Archbishop and also President of the Christian Council of Sweden Anders Wejryd and the Lutheran Bishop of Stockholm Eva Brunne.
The opening ceremony, also containing folk dancers and a presentation of the participants per continent, was led by Birgitta Winberg, (Swedish) President of IPCA since 2005.
The conference continues until Wednesday the 25th of August. Saturday´s conference day contains keynote speeches from professor Andrew Coyle and baroness Vivien Stern and a number of workshops.

 

Half-time of the international conference for prison chaplains
The world conference for prison chaplains Forgotten People, which began on Friday, continued during the weekend on Clarion Hotel in Stockholm, Sweden.  After Saturday´s two keynote speeches and two workshops, Sunday for many of the participants was dedicated to worship and sightseeing in Stockholm. Sunday evening contained an international program, where participants from all the six regions of IPCA gave information about their work, showed film clips, taught songs and told stories. With the very different situations in different parts of the world, and very much so in prisons, the evening was a very touching one, for example through the glimpses that was given from the African realities.
Now there are three days left of the conference. Monday before lunch UN:s former under-secretary general Hans Corell is giving a lecture called Defending Human Rights at the national and international level. Monday night the entire conference is invited by the city of Stockholm to a reception in the City Hall. Tuesday contains another keynote speech and workshops, and in the evening there will be an ecumenical service in the Lutheran cathedral of Stockholm, Storkyrkan. By Wednesday at lunch time the conference finishes, and in the afternoon interested participants can visit prisons in the Stockholm area.
IPCA Christian Council of Sweden - Ecumenical Centre - S 172 99 Sundbyberg, Sweden