The European Congress of Ethnic Religions ( ECER ), known as the World Congress of Ethnic Religions ( WCER ) until 2010, is an organization established at its first congress, which was held from June 21 to 23, 1998 in Vilnius ( Lithuania ).
| European Congress of Ethnic Religions | |
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| contact address |  Lithuania , Vilnius , Vivulskio 27-4 LT-03114 |
| Type of organization | Ethnic and Reconstructed Religions |
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| Established | 1998 |
| ecer-org.eu | |
ECER aims at preserving ethnic religions , strengthening the traditions of polytheistic religions, and promoting religious tolerance in Europe and the rest of the world. ECER helps national polytheistic organizations overcome various bureaucratic barriers in registration and recognition by the official authorities of individual countries. The organization also promotes collaboration between reconstructed neopagan religions and Hinduism .
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Founders
The founders of the congress are European ethnic religious organizations, while the ECER Congress is, in principle, open to ethnic religious organizations from other continents.
In 1999, members of the organization were: [1]
- Romuva (Lithuania) [2]
- Dievuriba (Latvia) [3]
- Association of the Native Faith (Poland) [4]
- Asatru Association (Iceland) [5]
- The Supreme Council of Ethnic Hellenes (Greece) [6]
Organizations that joined later [7] :
- Trot
Congress Timeline
- Vilnius, Lithuania (June 21-23, 1998)
- Telšiai , Lithuania (August 16-19, 1999)
- Bradesia, Lithuania (August 9-11, 2000)
- Vilnius, Lithuania (August 12-13, 2001)
- Vilnius, Lithuania (August 12-13, 2002)
- Vilnius, Lithuania (August 7-9, 2003)
- Athens , Greece (June 4-6, 2004)
- Antwerp , Belgium (June 8-10, 2005)
- Jaipur , India (February 5-10, 2006)
- Riga , Jurmala , Sigulda - Latvia (June 19-21, 2007)
- Jędrzychowice, Poland (2008)
- Nagpur , India (2009)
- Bologna , Italy (2010)
- Odense , Denmark (2012)
- Prague , Czech Republic (2013)
- Vilnius , Lithuania (2014)
See also
- World Buddhism
- World Council of Churches
- World Jewish Congress
- World Islamic League
- List of Neopagan Movements
Notes
- ↑ About ECER
- ↑ Romuva Archived March 24, 2010 on Wayback Machine
- ↑ Dievturi
- ↑ Rodzima Wiara
- ↑ Asatru
- ↑ YSEE
- ↑ ECER Organizations