The Christian Institute of gender studies (ICEG) was created in 2004 to provide a space for reflection, training and exchange on the issues of roles assigned to men and women in society and in the church. The ICEG is associated with the Department of Programs of the Council of Churches of Cuba and the Chair dedicated to this theme at the Theological Seminary of Matanzas.
Since 20 years ICEG performs ecumenical and interdisciplinary actions of training in congregations and communities. These actions are related to theological education with gender, social justice, holistic, approach. The Institute has developed hundreds of successful workshops for pastors, lay and community leaders who will become multipliers in their communities of the training received. There have been unsatisfied demands from the different denominations. The ICEG has had the collaboration of professionals of Cuban and foreign theologians committed to gender justice as well as of outstanding university professors who are opinion leaders in the Cuban society.
Three annual worshops and 12 biblical-theological topics (one monthly topic) have been organised and sent to the local congregations and to multipliers to be presented and discussed at local level:
- 2022 – The family (there will be a national discussion of the FAMILY CODE, and the reality we live today of new family models in Cuba will be discussed).
- 2023 - Christian religious fundamentalism in Cuba, affecting substantially gender justice with patriarchal construes that affect the necessary inclusive, community, prophetic ecclesiology.
- 2024 – The care of Creation (ECOLOGY AND ENVIRONMENT) for the production of the necessary food for the sustainable development of society.
Country: CUBA
Years: 2022 - 2024
Sector of Activity : Training - Education
Project title: Educational and leadership support of Churches, Ecumenical Organizations and Cuban society
