World Congress of Ethnic Religions

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The World Congress of Ethnic Religions (WCER) was established in June 1998 in Vilnius. Their primary goal is the strengthening of indigenous ethnic religions and to foster religious tolerance [1]. Their ninth annual conference was held in Jaipur, India on the 5th-10th of February, 2006. Their tenth congress was held in various places in Latvia from June 19th to 21st 2007

Members are mostly European ethnic religious organizations, but the WCER is in principle open to organizations from any continent.

In 1999, member organizations were: The 1999 WCER Congress (official document)

Romuva [2], Lithuania
Dievturi, Latvia
Rodzima Wiara, Poland
Asatrufelagið, Iceland
Germanische Glaubens-Gemeinschaft [3], Germany
Forn Siðr, Denmark
Supreme Council of Ethnikoi Hellenes [4], Greece
Diipetes, Greece
Association Domus, France
Werkgroep Traditie [5], Belgium

Member organizations which joined at a later date include:

Eldaring eldaring.de, Germany (2004)
Foreningen Forn Sed [6], Norway
Movimento Tradizionale Romano [7] [8], Italy
Federazione Pagana, Italy
Pravoslavya, Ukraine

Congresses:

Vilnius (1998)
Telsiai (1999)
Bradesiai (2000)
Vilnius (2001), delegates from Vishva Hindu Parishad
Vilnius (2002)
Vilnius (2003) "Global Initiatives for Ethnic Cultures and Religions"
Athens (2004) "The High Values Of The pre-Christian Ethnic Traditions and Religions"
Antwerp (2005) "Spirituality and tradition in an anti-traditional world"
Jaipur (2006) "Spirituality Beyond Religions", in cooperation with the International Centre of Cultural Studies and the World Congress of Elders of Ancient Cultures and Traditions
Latvia (2007) "The spirit will see new light in the turn of ages"
Poland (2008)
Nagpur (2009)