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13/12/20

Justice - Memory - Healing: Paths to Reconciliation

Wednesday, 2 December 2009, 7.30 pm

Church of the Trinity, 5 rue de la Congrégation, Luxembourg

Father Michael Lapsley,SSM


In a few days the world will be celebrating the 61st anniversary of  the Universal Declaration of Human rights  

It is easy to be depressed about the state of the world or equally tempting to be falsely optimistic.


26/11/2009

Haitian Workshop -  “ I have been humiliated all my life”
Father Michael Lapsley,SSM


The words seared my flesh and entered my soul. It was said by one of the mothers who participated in a Healing of Memories workshop held in "Matthew 25", a small church facility in Port au Prince,from November 20 to November 22, 2009


11/10/2009 World Council of Churches
International Seminar of the Ecumenical Institute Bossey

“Healing of Memories and Reconciling Communities”
16-22 August, 2009

Presentation by Father Michael Lapsley,SSM
Director : Institute for Healing of Memories

   
20/09/2009

Tortured, traumatised but not broken: the South African spirit and vision of hope .
Speech made Fr. Michael SSM at Stellenbosch University on the 17th September 2009

   
06/04/2009 Healing of Memories Workshop at the College of the Transfiguration, Grahamstown (added 2009 April 06 )


   
22/02/2009

International Military Chief of Chaplains Conference
1-4 February 2009   Cape Town.

   
15/08/2008

3RD ANNUAL DIAKONIA AWARD BESTOWED ON FR MICHAEL LAPSLEY, SSM.

Read the citation and Diakonia Lecture : "Who is my neighbour?"
   
15/03/2008 Australian Apology to the Aboriginal People
   
  Programme Evaluation of Healing of Memories Workshops
   
02/09/2007 Sermon Preached at St Pauls Cathedral, London by Fr Michael Lapsley,SSM
   
7-14/03/2007 Towards Effective Anglican Mission, an International conference on Prophetic Witness, Social Development and HIV and AIDS.
Boksburg South Africa, March 7-14, 2007


27/01/2007 Meeting Adriaan Vlok – the encounter that never took place...
Sunday Independent 2007 Jan 28
   
03/12/2006 We can heal the wounds - by Richard Naidu (fijitimes)
   
05/11/2006 Sermon Preached by Father Michael Lapsley,SSM
Evensong – Westminster Abbey,London, UK November 5 2006
   
04/06/2006 Sermon from St. Mark's Cathedral Seattle, WA
   
05/09/2005 Rwanda - 11 years after the Genocide – the road is still long.
By Fr. Michael Lapsley S.S.M.
   
25/07/2005 Speech delivered by Fr. Michael Lapsley, SSM, Director of the Institute for Healing of Memories, at the 7th World Convention of the International Conference of Principals in Cape Town - 11 July 2005 on the theme of Ubuntu
read full speech


   
12/04/2005 Anglican priest keeps up the work of racial liberation
By PATRICK O'NEILL, CORRESPONDENT
   
10/12/2004 Goodwood Prison Workshop Dec 2004 Report
   
01/11/2004 God's Dream for Alice Springs in the Heart of Australia.
1 November, 2004
   
17/09/2004 Encountering Darkness and Light in Rwanda
Friday, 17 September 2004
   
20/08/2004 Journey to Healing and Wholeness - Conference Report
Robben Island 14 - 17 April 2004
   
20/06/2004 Sermon at St. Mark's Episcopal Cathedral Diocese of Olympia - 2004 June 20 Seattle, Washington
   
27/04/2004 VICTIMS OF VIOLENCE, WAR AND TERROR MEET TO HEAL THEIR WOUNDS - Cape Times 2004 April 19
   
30/10/2003 Searching for Peace and Healing in Burundi
   
18/08/2003 Presentation at the Civil Society and Justice in Zimbabwe - Symposium in Johannesburg
18/08/2003  Healing Memories in Alice Springs and Perth - Part Two
21/04/2003 Press Statement on President Mbeki's Speech on the TRC Final Report
12/03/2003 Zimbabwe - a nation faces death and longs for a new beginning
18/12/2002

The Burden of History in Germany
Visit to Hanover & Hamburg, November 2002

16/12/2002

Struggling to Abolish the Death Penalty, Healing and Signs of new Life in Uganda.

10/10/2002

So much pain, so much hope
Boston,  USA

03/08/2002

Michael Lapsley interviewed by:
Cheryl White, Jane Speedy & David Denborough

01/08/2002

Healing Memories in Zimbabwe

30/06/2002

Reflections on a visit to Germany

13/03/2001

The Second Michael Hirschfeld Memorial Address:  
Triumph over torture
Amnesty International Conference
Wellington, Aotearoa/New Zealand

05/09/2000

Moral Arguments for Reparations in South Africa: 
- by Fr. Michael Lapsley  and Karin Chubb (Black Sash)




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Archived Material
BEYOND THE RAMP : Keynote speech, Australian Conference on Spirituality and Disability
BICYCLE THEOLOGY and the Journey of Forgiveness
CBC RADIO INTERVIEWS : Fr. Michael Lapsley et al on the HoM workshops
EAST TIMOR: The Road to Peace, Independence and Democracy by Fr. Michael Lapsley
NEW SCHOOL INTERVIEW: Interview with Fr. Michael Lapsley
THE ROLE OF THE CHURCH AND HoM WORKSHOPS:
Speech, South African Council of Churches Conference
PUBLIC LECTURE : New School for Social Research, 4th May 1998
THE ROLE OF PUNITIVE JUSTICE IN RECONCILING :
Speech, South African Council of Churches Conference
REDEMPTIVE VALUE OF TRUTH TELLING: A paper by Fr. Michael Lapsley
HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS : TRC transcripts of evidence given by Fr. Michael Lapsley