The Center for Reconciliation, in collaboration with its partner the Americas Initiative for Transformation and Reconciliation (AITR), is offering the second session in the second module of the Second Institute of the Americas for Transformation and Reconciliation.

Module 2: On Lament

Session 3: Lament for the Amazon Jungle

Speakers: Juliana Morillo (Colombia) and Justino Piaguage (Siekopai Nation, Ecuador)
Facilitator: Bishop Juan de Dios Peña Gallegos (El Salvador)

  • Juliana Morillo is a missionary with the organization Latin Link and serves with the Network for Creation Care in Latin America and the Caribbean. She is a biochemist, with degrees in sanitation and environmental development from the Universidad Javeriana de Colombia and in risk management from the Universidad Los Andes. She has worked in the environmental sector with both governmental and non-governmental agencies in Colombia, and with Christian entities such as World Vision and Latin Link in Colombia, Argentina, and Peru.
  • Justino Piaguage is a member of the Siekopai Nation in Ecuador. He holds a degree in sustainable local development, and is currently studying a for master's degree in rights of nature and intercultural justice. At an organizational level, he has served as president of the Siekopai Nation for four terms. At present, he serves his nation in the position of territorial leader. He is one of the key figures leading the struggle against the international company Chevron-Texaco, seeking environmental, social, and cultural justice for the peoples and nations of the Ecuadorian Amazon.
  • Juan de Dios Peña Gallegos is an ordained pastor of the Methodist Church in El Salvador. He is a theological facilitator for the Methodist Course of Study program in the areas of leadership, mission, reconciliation, administration, and politics with students from Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Panama. He is a current resident bishop and president of the College of Bishops of the Council of Evangelical Methodist Churches of Latin America and the Caribbean.

All institute sessions will be conducted in Spanish, with simultaneous English and Portuguese translation available.  

Free registration is required.