ICPCC History and Recent Developments

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ICPCC History and Recent Developments
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• International World Congresses
• 1979 Edinburgh, Scotland
• (400 practitioners from across the globe)
• 1983 San Francisco, California, USA
• 1987 Melbourne, Australia
• 1991 Noordwijkerhout, The Netherlands
• 1995 Toronto, Canada
• 1999 Accra, Ghana
• 2004 Bangalore, India

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Edinburgh 1979
Denis Duncan The kind of world we know
today,with its insidious pressures, its serious
stresses and its severe strains, demands new
insights into pastoral care and new
understandings of human behavior and
relationships.
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1981 Lublin
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San Francisco 1983

• Symbols and Stories in
• Pastoral Care and Counselling
• Pastoral counsellors and teachers from different
  continents presented traditions and stories of
  healing.
• In this congress it became clear that we needed
  to develop care and counselling for systems and
  structures, not only for individuals and families.

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Melbourne 1987

• Pastoral Ministry in a Fractured World
• Large proportion of Asian representatives.
• The first presentation of liberation theology by
  basic ecclesial community perspectives from Latin
  America.

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1991 Noordwijkerhout

• Contextual Pastoral Care and Counselling
• The Council A body which enables communication
  to take place at an international level.
• Work between the congresses is carried out by a
  coordinating committee of twelve people.

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1995 Toronto

• Problems become more visible
• how to address political context of PCC
• how to address spiritual diversity
  (Christian/Jewish relations)

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1999 Accra
Spirituality and Culture in the Practice of
Pastoral Care and Counselling
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• Dr Wilhelmina Kalu, President of African
  Association
• Dr Emanuel Lartey, President of ICPCC 1999-2004

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• Participation in a kings burial in Ghana
• Participants at the University of Accra

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2004 Bangalore

• Global Economy A Challenge for Pastoral Care,
  Counselling and Religious Traditions

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Jim Biddle, New Zealand
Rita van Damme, Phillippines
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2005 Hong Kong
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