Office for youth pastoral care

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The work center for youth pastoral care (afj) is an institution of the German Bishops' Conference in Germany, whose main task is the support and conceptual promotion of youth pastoral care in the Roman Catholic Church in Germany.

Mission and structure

As the specialist agency for youth issues of the German Bishops' Conference, the agency has the task of networking and supporting the actors in youth pastoral care in the dioceses, orders, Catholic youth associations and other organizations involved in church youth work, and of coordinating their cooperation. This is done through advanced training, networking meetings and publications. Furthermore, new developments in (youth) pastoral care are observed, promoted and accompanied. The office also promotes encounters between Catholic youth on a supranational level.

For this purpose, the office has the units of faith education, pastoral acolytes and liturgical / cultural education, political education, youth pastoral education and youth pastoral fundamental issues. Cooperations exist u. a. with the Federation of German Catholic Youth (BDKJ) and its member associations, the Working Group on Catholic Social Educational Institutions (AKSB), the Catholic Office in Berlin, the Federal Ministry for Family, Seniors, Women and Youth , the Catholic Academy for Youth Issues, the Liturgical Institute in Trier and the Pontifical Council for the Laity in Rome. It is involved in research and studies in collaboration with the Federal Agency for Civic Education and the German Children and Youth Foundation , which, for example, jointly commissioned the SINUS study “How do young people 2016?” In 2016.

The office is assigned to the youth commission of the German Bishops 'Conference and works closely with that of the Bishops' Conference in Bonn. The office is located in the youth center in Düsseldorf and is headed by Bianca Mohr.

history

The end of the Second World War was the occasion for the German Bishops' Conference to reorganize many areas in the Roman Catholic Church in Germany. In 1945, the German Bishops' Conference addressed in House Altenberg the Episcopal headquarters for Catholic youth ministry and youth organization in the German dioceses and commissioned prelate Ludwig Wolker on November 9, 1945 with the line.

In 1957 the afj moved into the youth center in Düsseldorf . Today the afj and the federal agency of the Federation of German Catholic Youth, founded in Paderborn in 1947, use the youth center as a federal center and offer many services for youth work through it .

Editor (selection)

Magazines

  • Great, hello. The magazine for young Christians.

Books (selection)

  • Youth pastoral perspectives
  • Youth, Church, Sexuality

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. bpb.de: New Sinus Youth Studies April 25, 2016
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