The Social Christians ( Italian : Cristiano Sociali ) are a Christian social-democratic faction within the Democratic Party , a political party in Italy . Before that, they were a party (1993–1998) and a faction of the Democrats of the Left (1998–2007).
17-641: The CS are a member of the International League of Religious Socialists (ILRS). The group was founded as a party by trade-union leader Pierre Carniti and economist Ermanno Gorrieri in 1993, in order to represent Christian leftists and socialists within the nascent Alliance of Progressives . In the 1994 general election the party was included in the Democratic Party of the Left and obtained eight deputies and six senators, while in
34-513: A few. At the ILRS conference in 2000, both Latvia and Italy officially joined the organization. 20th century presidents of the ILRS include Adiranus von Bieman, and his successor, Evert Svennson who led the organization from 1983 to 2003. More recently, previous President Cynthia Dalman Eek met with European Union Parliament members in 2017, noting the aim of the ILRS to be focused around discussing religion, social inclusion and integration. Today,
51-604: Is an associate organisation of Socialist International . The member organisations are: The International League of Religious Socialists (ILRS) is the oldest continuing socialist organization in Europe. The first international conference of the ILRS was held in the Netherlands by Willem Banning and Carl Mennicke in 1926. Willem Banning served as a Dutch preacher and co-founded the Dutch Labor Party. Carl Mennicke
68-473: Is an umbrella organization of religious socialist movements in political parties throughout the world. Founded in the 1920s, it has member groups in 20 countries totaling 200,000 members. For most of its history, it was mainly European and contained mainly Christian socialist groups, but has recently expanded to the Americas, Africa, and Australia to include more groups with connections to other religions. It
85-507: Is necessary, yet they support strong state intervention in areas of education, health and social welfare. Economically, they maintain that free-market capitalism needs to have moral limits. Today, the efforts of the ILRS are focused on helping social democratic parties navigate between illiberal secularism and tolerant multiculturalism. The organization sees itself as a mediator between left-wing European political parties, religious communities, and state governments. Its most recent conference
102-569: The 1996 general election five deputies (including Mimmo Lucà and Methodist pastor Domenico Maselli ) and four senators won election. In 1998 the CS fully joined the Democrats of the Left (DS) and were later a faction within that party. In 2007 the CS were keen supporters of the merger of the DS into the Democratic Party and in first leadership election most of them supported Walter Veltroni . In
119-506: The 2009 leadership election the faction chose to support Pier Luigi Bersani , while two former leading members, Giorgio Tonini and Stefano Ceccanti , who had been Veltroni's close allies, supported Dario Franceschini . After the 2001 and 2006 general elections , the faction continued to have at least four deputies and senators, although lately the faction's strength has been reduced. International League of Religious Socialists The International League of Religious Socialists
136-508: The 1956 assassination of President Anastasio Somoza García . From 1964 to 1974, Tünnerman was rector of the National Autonomous University of Nicaragua at León . There he met eventual human rights lawyer and Nicaraguan Center for Human Rights president Vilma Núñez as well as his successor as rector and later president of Nicaragua’s Supreme Electoral Council Mariano Fiallos Oyanguren . In 1977, Tünnerman
153-824: The Bommersvik Conference, the Minister of Education for Nicaragua, Carlos Tunnerman , invited the ILRS to hold their next conference in Nicaragua, under the theme of "No Peace without Justice and Democracy". Expanding to the Middle East, the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) attended the 1989 Stockholm Congress of the ILRS. In 2002, the International League of Religious Socialists sat down with both
170-569: The ILRS at this meeting. Under this conference's theme of "Peace and Employment", the ILRS addressed the relationship between the global north and south amidst the Cold War. 3 years later, the ILRS expanded its borders even further and met outside of Europe for the first time. This meeting took place in Managua, Nicaragua in October 1986 and featured 67 participants from 16 different countries. At
187-538: The ILRS is led by President Maria Angeles Sanz del Moral of Spain. Other executive board members include the Vice Presidents: Carlos García de Andoín, of Spain and Marìa Hevzy, of Norway. The current treasurer is Jochen Geraedts of the Netherlands, and the remaining executive board members are Tarja Kantola of Finland, as well as Ulf Carmesund of Switzerland. The socialist ideology of the ILRS asserts that participation in parliamentary politics
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#1732773281284204-507: The ILRS. From this point until the 1970s, the activities and membership of the ILRS was limited to Northern Europe. In 1983, the International League of Religious Socialists held a conference in Bommersvik, Sweden. This conference established the global reach of the ILRS, highlighting the commitment of the organization to provide a platform for Christian socialists around the world. The U.S. Religion and Socialism Commission formally joined
221-683: The PLO and the Meretz party, an Israeli religious socialist party, in West Bank and Israel, respectively. With the fall of the Berlin Wall, the ILRS was able to integrate the former Soviet bloc countries into their fold. In 1991, the organization's conference was under the theme of "A New Europe: Challenges for Central/Eastern Europe". This conference was attended by delegates from Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Bulgaria, Slovenia, Lithuania and Estonia to name
238-520: Was a German-born theologian. A second conference was held in 1928 in Switzerland, and the following year, in 1929, an international committee for religious socialists was founded in Cologne, Germany. Among its members were Switzerland, Germany, Austria, Belgium, England and France. This conference solidified the existence of an international organization and is considered to be the official origin of
255-823: Was a Nicaraguan lawyer, diplomat, government official and educator. He was a Minister of Education in Nicaragua , serving during the Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN) government from 1979 to 1984. He next became Nicaragua’s ambassador to the United States and then to the Organization of American States (OAS), from 1984 to 1988. Tünnerman’s father had been head of the Nicaraguan Central Bank. A lawyer by training, Tünnerman defended Tomás Borge after
272-589: Was a member of the Group of Twelve establishment figures in Nicaragua who signed a letter of support for the Sandinistas, helping legitimize the movement. Tünnerman was twice awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in education, in 1973 and 1989. On 25 February 2020, Tünnerman was a signatory to the proclamation of unity of the National Coalition . The signatory organizations pledged to work to develop
289-647: Was held in Utretch in 2018, under the theme of "Europe as a community of values". Recently, the ILRS has been expanding beyond its Protestant tradition. Islamic organizations, the Federation of Islamic Organizations in Europe (FIOE) and the Islamic Center of Milan, attended the 1997 ILRS conference in Helsinki . Carlos T%C3%BCnnerman Carlos Tünnerman Bernheim (10 May 1933 – 27 March 2024)
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