Christian and Labour Movement in the Czech republic – KAP
KAP was founded in october 1996. Our aim is to study and spread the social
teaching of the Church and apply it in social life. We organize member social
events through our local organizations in Prague, Brno and Frýdek-Místek
(Northern Moravia), and seminars (once or twice a year), the latter often in
collaboration with the German and/or Austrian KAB.
Ou last seminar has dealt with Financial crises and their consequences for the
world of labour. The lecturers have come from Austria, Czechia, England,
Germany, Hungary and Switzerland. The seminar took place at the Pilgrimage House
Stojanov, Velehrad (Moravia), 17–19 September 2004. We gratefully acknowledge
financial suppport by the EC and EZA (Europäisches Zentrum für
Arbeitsnehmerfragen). In 1993 we organized an international seminar in
Bor/Heid near Tachov (North-Western Bohemia) to commemorate the 120th
anniversary of the Bor Theses, which represented one of the first attempts
theoretically to formulate a Catholic position on the social situation of
workers in the modern era. Currently, at the invitation by EZA and with its
financial support, we organize a platform of Christian organizations in the
Czech republic to facilitate European social dialogue.
Luděk Rychetník, Executive Committee member