The Annual General Meeting and Consultative Forum of the International Christian Maritime Association are set to meet in Penang, Malaysia.
These events are opportunities for all 28 members of ICMA to come together. At these meetings the members participate in discussions and workshops on pressing issues relevant to seafarers’ ministry. The membership advise the Executive [...]
The gathering of Christian faith-based port welfare workers held on June 29 and 30 in Chennai, India, has been billed “the beginning of a new journey in the maritime history [of] India”. The meeting was held under the banner of the “Ecumenical Maritime Ministry of India (EMMI)”.
EMMI, founded in 2009, aims to unify [...]
The next Annual General Meeting of ICMA will take place in Penang, Malaysia, 26 September 2010.
The date and location of the AGM were confirmed by the ICMA Executive Committee which met in London last week. Other events are also scheduled to take place around the AGM. These include the East Asia regional conference, Consultative Forum [...]
In late February this year, 25 ICMA chaplains and ship visitors gathered in Paranagua, Brazil, for a seminar on seafarers’ welfare. Topics on the agenda included:
ecumenical co-operation
stress and depression among seafarers
an update on seafarers’ rights
The Brazil welfare seminar has requested that ICMA acknowledge Brazil as an ICMA regional structure. The Brazil Ecumenical Committee has been [...]
ICMA West Africa regional conference, 25-28 January 2010
Chaplains, ship visitors, volunteer welfare workers and seafarers’ centre staff from West Africa gathered in Grand Bassam, Cote D’Ivoire, for the ICMA West Africa Regional Conference. This joint conference was also attended by members of the International Committee on Seafarers’ Welfare (ICSW), port and national welfare boards, union [...]
