World Student Christian Federation (WSCF)

World Student Christian Federation (WSCF) WSCF has been a spirited, formational and life-giving movement of Christian students for over 130 years. https://linktr.ee/wscfconnect
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The local and national groups that make up the federation are largely known as Student Christian Movements (SCMs). In some cases the youth or student movement of a national church or other ecumenical organisation is a member of the WSCF. While university, polytechnic and other tertiary students make up the bulk of SCM membership, high school students are also involved in some movements. Today WSCF

has over one hundred affiliated national movements which span the six WSCF regions: Africa, Asia-Pacific, Europe, Latin America and Caribbean, Middle East and North America. From the outset WSCF has been crucial in the formation of leaders for the ecumenical movement. The World Council of Churches owes much of its founding leadership to former members of the World Student Christian Federation. Students who join an SCM are encouraged to study their Christian faith and their world with the same depth and passion they bring to their studies. SCMs are renowned for their openness to searchers as well as believers and for a strong commitment to social justice.

🛑 Have you ever asked yourself: when they promise “security,” why does our regions keep filling with weapons? 🌏 Militar...
20/08/2026

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Have you ever asked yourself: when they promise “security,” why does our regions keep filling with weapons? 🌏 Militarization is not peace.

Across Asia and the Pacific, competing empires expand military bases, alliances, weapons, and war games—while ordinary people bear the cost.

✊ Peace is justice. To reclaim peace is to reject militarization and refuse to become anyone’s battlefield.
Shalom is more than the absence of war; it is justice, right relationships, and life in fullness for all. 🕊️

This content is part of the WSCF Peace Campaign:
Youth Building Peace with Justice

27/07/2026

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Have you ever asked yourself: Is your image of the Arab world shaped by stereotypes and prejudice? 👀

✊ Today, we highlight Edward Said, a Christian Palestinian academic and one of the founders of postcolonial studies. One of his best-known books is Orientalism, in which he critiques the West’s cultural representations of the Orient and the ways they have shaped perceptions of the region.

This content is part of the WSCF Peace Campaign:
—Youth Building Peace with Justice 🕊️
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هل سبق أن سألت نفسك: هل تتشكّل صورتك عن العالم العربي من خلال الصور النمطية والأحكام المسبقة؟👀

✊ نسلّط الضوء اليوم على إدوارد‎ سعيد، المفكر الفلسطيني المسيحي وأحد مؤسسي دراسات ما بعد الاستعمار. ومن أشهر مؤلفاته كتاب **الاستشراق**، الذي ينتقد فيه التمثيلات الثقافية الغربية للشرق، وكيف أسهمت في تشكيل التصورات السائدة عن المنطقة.

هذا المحتوى جزء من حملة السلام التابعة ل WSCF
— شباب يبنون السلام بالعدالة 🕊️
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🛑 When they call it "development," who defines it, whose lands are at risk, and who pays the price? 🌏Today, we travel ...
20/07/2026

🛑 When they call it "development," who defines it, whose lands are at risk, and who pays the price? 🌏

Today, we travel to Asia Pacific to continue asking ourselves: why?

Who decides what "development" means? Whose voices are heard? Whose lands are sacrificed? 🤔

Is development really a neutral concept?

Too often, "development" has been used to justify land grabbing, extractivism, displacement, and environmental destruction in the name of progress.

✊ Reclaiming land means reclaiming life, memory, sovereignty, and the right of communities to determine their own future.

As people of faith, we believe the earth is God's, and every community that tends it bears God's image. Peace is not clearing forests in the name of development.

This content is part of the WSCF Peace Campaign:
Youth Building Peace with Justice 🕊️

WSCF GS meet today Indonesia SCM leadership to discuss potencial co-hosting of 38th WSCF GA🙌🏽
03/07/2026

WSCF GS meet today Indonesia SCM leadership to discuss potencial co-hosting of 38th WSCF GA🙌🏽

🛑 When does faith become a tool of domination? 🌍Historically, religion has also been used as part of the colonizer’s na...
03/06/2026

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When does faith become a tool of domination? 🌍

Historically, religion has also been used as part of the colonizer’s narrative to justify conquest, land annexation, displacement, and violence.

Through these two examples, we see how colonial violence becomes even more dangerous when it speaks the language of God.

✊ Let us reclaim liberating and humanizing religious narratives!

This content is part of the WSCF Peace Campaign:
— Youth Building Peace with Justice 🕊️

#توقّف_وفكّركيف شكّل الاستعمار الطريقة التي نفهم بها بعض المناطق والشعوب والصراعات اليوم؟ اليوم، ندعوك أن تسأل نفسك: لم...
28/05/2026

#توقّف_وفكّر

كيف شكّل الاستعمار الطريقة التي نفهم بها بعض المناطق والشعوب والصراعات اليوم؟

اليوم، ندعوك أن تسأل نفسك: لماذا؟

لماذا يُسمّى «الشرق الأوسط»؟
«أوسط» بالنسبة إلى مَن؟ 🤔

هل اللغة حقًا محايدة؟
التسمية ليست بريئة أبدًا. فالكلمات تُشكّل الطريقة التي تُصوَّر بها الشعوب، وكيف يصبح العنف أمرًا طبيعيًا ومقبولًا.

✊ استعادة اللغة تعني استعادة الهوية والتاريخ والكرامة.
لقد حان الوقت للتوقف عن إعادة إنتاج المصطلحات الاستعمارية، والبدء في مساءلة السرديات التي تقف وراءها.

📚 هذا المحتوى جزء من حملة السلام التابعة لـ WSCF:

شباب يبنون السلام بالعدالة 🕊️

🛑 How has colonialism shaped the way we understand certain regions, peoples, and conflicts today? 🌍Today, we invite yo...
27/05/2026

🛑 How has colonialism shaped the way we understand certain regions, peoples, and conflicts today? 🌍

Today, we invite you to ask yourself: why.

Why is it called the “Middle East”?
“Middle” to whom? 🤔

Is language really neutral?
Naming is never innocent. Words shape how peoples are perceived and how violence becomes normalized.

Reclaiming language means reclaiming identity, history, and dignity. It is time to stop reproducing colonial terms and start questioning the narratives behind them.

This content is part of the WSCF Peace Campaign:
Youth Building Peace with Justice 🕊️

The registration process for the ACT Advocacy Academy 2026 is now open!Key priorities for 2026 include:*A shared bilingu...
21/05/2026

The registration process for the ACT Advocacy Academy 2026 is now open!

Key priorities for 2026 include:
*A shared bilingual space - virtual sessions and an online learning environment on FABO (in English and Spanish)
*Co-created thematic lectures with participants
*Enhanced networking, including an alumni network of participants
*Integrate forum-driven advocacy in thematic lectures

Apply before June 26th at https://fabo.org/enrol/?id=4112
or contact [email protected]

Watch now the mini-documentary of “Frame the Future”, a year-long journey into youth-led peacebuilding by WSCF Europe👇
19/05/2026

Watch now the mini-documentary of “Frame the Future”, a year-long journey into youth-led peacebuilding by WSCF Europe👇

"Frame the future" is a WSCF Europe Peacebuilding Program that took...

How can we build new political ways to challenge systems that dehumanize difference? How do you reclaim otherness in you...
07/05/2026

How can we build new political ways to challenge systems that dehumanize difference? How do you reclaim otherness in your local context?

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