BAPTIST WORLD, A Magazine of the Baptist World Alliance, Your Network to the World
April/June 2010, Volume 57, Number 2
NEW BWA DIRECTOR TAKES UP APPOINTMENT
Raimundo César Barreto Jr. of Brazil assumed the position of Baptist World Alliance Director of Freedom and Justice (F&J) on
March 1, 2010.
Barreto is the first person to fill this position, which was created on September 1, 2008, following a decision of the BWA General
Council in July of that year in Prague, Czech Republic.
An ordained Baptist pastor since 1993, Barreto holds a doctoral degree in Christian Social Ethics from Princeton Theological
Seminary in New Jersey in the United States, as well as degrees from the McAfee School of Theology at Mercer University in Atlanta,
Georgia, also in the US, and from the North Brazil Baptist Theological Seminary in Recife. He also studied at the International Baptist
Theological Seminary in Prague, Czech Republic.
He has worked extensively in academia in Brazil and in the US, including at the North Brazil Baptist Theological Seminary; the
Northeast Baptist Theological Seminary in Feira de Santana; the Christian Education Seminary in Recife; Lancaster Theological
Seminary in Pennsylvania; and at Princeton Theological Seminary.
Barreto has conducted research on Christian and social justice issues in Latin America. He has special interest in working with
organizations in human rights, and in advocating for those who have special needs.
Prior to joining the staff at the BWA Center in Falls Church, Virginia, in the US, Barreto was pastor of Igreja Batista Esperança (Hope
Baptist Church) in Salvador, Bahia state, Brazil, and worked as general coordinator for the Martin Luther King, Jr. Center for Social
Ethics in Brazil, among several other appointments in church and community organizations.
The F&J Division of the BWA addresses issues of human rights and religious freedom, and coordinates the relationship between the
BWA and the United Nations, where the BWA holds membership in several UN agencies.
Barreto is married to Eliã, a nurse who worked in public health, and is the father of two sons, Caio, 15, Cauã, 3, and a daughter,
Luana, seven months.
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BWA OFFICERS
David Coffey . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . President
Neville Callam . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .General Secretary
BWA EXECUTIVE STAFF
Raimundo Barreto . . . . . . . . . . . . . Freedom and Justice
Patsy Davis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Women
Emmett Dunn . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Youth and Congress
Eron Henry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Communications
Paul Montacute . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . BWAid
Kathe Traynham . . . . . . . . . . . Promotion and Development
Fausto Vasconcelos . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Evangelism/Research
BWA REGIONAL SECRETARIES
Harrison Olan’g . . . . . . . . . All Africa Baptist Fellowship
Tony Peck . . . . . . . . . . . . . European Baptist Federation
Peter Pinder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Caribbean Baptist Fellowship
Alberto Prokopchuk . . . . Union of Baptists in Latin America
P. Bonny Resu . . . . . . . . . . Asian Pacific Baptist Federation
George Bullard. . . . . . . . . . North American Baptist Fellowship
COVER PHOTO: BWAid Rescue24 team members treat a patient injured in the January 12 earthquake
Unless otherwise noted, photos in the issue are by BWA staff.
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