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Este es un resumen de las noticias publicadas durante la semana en el sitio de ALC Noticias:

* Qonakuy: Educación de calidad de acuerdo a los principios de la Escritura http://alc-noticias.net/es/2017/09/15/qonakuy-educacion-de-calidad-de-acuerdo-a-los-principios-de-la-escritura/

* Del porqué de una Plataforma de Universidades Cristianas protestantes de América Latina http://alc-noticias.net/es/2017/09/15/del-porque-de-una-plataforma-de-universidades-cristianas-protestantes-de-america-latina/

* La educación con valores desde la fe, eje de la flamante plataforma universitaria http://alc-noticias.net/es/2017/09/15/la-educacion-con-valores-desde-la-fe-eje-de-la-flamante-plataforma-universitaria/

* Vandalizan iglesia metodista que sirve a la comunidad nativa http://alc-noticias.net/es/2017/09/13/vandalizan-iglesia-metodista-que-sirve-a-la-comunidad-nativa/

* Qonakuy: Universidades evangélicas conforman una Plataforma para la cooperación http://alc-noticias.net/es/2017/09/13/qonakuy-universidades-evangelicas-conforman-una-plataforma-para-la-cooperacion/

* Abuelas de Plaza de Mayo ejemplifican el liderazgo de las mujeres por la justicia y la paz http://alc-noticias.net/es/2017/09/11/abuelas-de-plaza-de-mayo-ejemplifican-el-liderazgo-de-las-mujeres-por-la-justicia-y-la-paz/

* Evangélicos en la dictadura militar chilena: una aproximación histórica http://alc-noticias.net/es/2017/09/11/evangelicos-en-la-dictadura-militar-chilena-una-aproximacion-historica/

* Iglesias evangélicas acogen a víctimas del huracán en Baracoa y comienzan tareas de reconstrucción http://alc-noticias.net/es/2017/09/11/iglesias-evangelicas-acogen-a-victimas-del-huaracan-en-baracoa-y-comienzan-tareas-de-reconstruccion/

Retiro Espiritual 1/18 - Apertura - Padre Ignacio Larrañaga

Retiro Espiritual 2/18 - Salmo 63 - Padre Ignacio Larrañaga

Retiro Espiritual 3/18 - Atrofia Espiritual - Padre Ignacio Larrañaga

Retiro Espiritual 4/18 - La Fe - Padre Ignacio Larrañaga

Retiro Espiritual 5/18 - Mujer de Fe - Padre Ignacio Larrañaga

Retiro Espiritual 6/18 - Salmo 27 - Padre Ignacio Larrañaga

Retiro Espiritual 7/18 - Abandono I - Padre Ignacio Larrañaga

Retiro Espiritual 8/18 - Abandono II - Padre Ignacio Larrañaga

Retiro Espiritual 9/18 - El Perdón - Padre Ignacio Larrañaga

Retiro Espiritual 10/18 - Jesús se Abandona - Padre Ignacio Larrañaga

Retiro Espiritual 11/18 - Salmo 31 - Padre Ignacio Larrañaga

Retiro Espiritual 12/18 - Encuentro - Padre Ignacio Larrañaga

Retiro Espiritual 13/18 - Revelación del Padre - Padre Ignacio Larrañaga

Retiro Espiritual 14/18 - Salmo 51 - Padre Ignacio Larrañaga

Retiro Espiritual 15/18 - Modalidades - Padre Ignacio Larrañaga

Retiro Espiritual 16/18 - Tiempos Fuertes - Padre Ignacio Larrañaga

Retiro Espiritual 17/18 - Jesús Modelo de Vida - Padre Ignacio Larrañaga

Retiro Espiritual 18/18 - Orientaciones - Padre Ignacio Larrañaga

Ninian of Galloway, Bishop, Missionary to Scotland, 16 September 430.

(from the Anglican Calendar)

Ninian is also called Nynia, Ninias, Rigna, Trignan, Ninnidh, Ringan, Ninus, or Dinan. He was a Celt, born in southern Scotland in about 360, and is regarded as the first major preacher of the Gospel to the people living in Britain north of the Wall--that is, living outside the territory that had been under Roman rule. He is said to have studied in Rome (note that he is contemporary with Ambrose, Jerome, and Augustine), but was chiefly influenced by his friendship with Martin of Tours, with whom he spent some considerable time when he was returning from Italy to Britain. It is probable that he named his headquarters in Galloway after Martin's foundation in Gall. Martin had a monastery known as LOCO TEIAC, a Latinized form of the Celtic LEUG TIGIAC. LEUG means "white, shining," and TIG means "house" (a shanty, or SHAN-TIG, is an old house). The suffix -AC means "little." Thus, Martin's monastery had a name which in Celtic means "little white house." At about the time of Martin's death in 397, Ninian built a church at Galloway, in southwest Scotland. It was built of stone and plastered white, an unusual construction in a land where almost all buildings were wood. He called it Candida Casa (White House) or Whithorn, presumably after Martin's foundation at Tours. Archaeologists have excavated and partially restored his church in this century. From his base at Galloway, Ninian preached throughout southern Scotland, south of the Grampian Mountains, and conducted preaching missions among the Picts of Scotland, as far north as the Moray Firth, He also preached in the Solway Plains and the Lake District of England. Like Patrick (a generation later) and Columba (a century and a half later), he was a principal agent in preserving the tradition of the old Romano-British Church and forming the character of Celtic Christianity. Some historians think that the number and extent of his conversions has been exaggerated, but throughout southern Scotland there are many and widespread churches that bear his name, and have traditionally been assumed to be congregations originally founded by him.

Our information about him comes chiefly from Bede's History (Book 3, chapter 4), an anonymous eighth century account, and a 12th century account by Aelred. Aelred is writing 700 years after the event, and is for that reason rejected as untrustworthy by many critics. However, he claims to rely on an earlier account, "written by a barbarian." This suggests that he may have had an authentic record by a member of Ninian's community in Galloway.

See The Christian Island, by Beram Saklatvala (J M Dent, London, 1969), plus standard references.

Link: http://elvis.rowan.edu/~kilroy/JEK/home.html