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LEADING ECUMENIST DIES
WCC Eighth Assembly - Press Release No. 15
Mr Peacock was the President of the Methodist Church in Sierra Leone and the vice-president of the Christian Council of Sierra Leone. He was also a member of the General Committee of the All-Africa Conference of Churches (AACC), which announced his death in Harare.
His wife, Mrs Maude Peacock, was among the African delegates to the Decade Festival held in Harare 27-30 November to mark the end of the Ecumenical Decade of Churches in Solidarity with Women. She rushed back home to attend her husband when he was taken ill.
Mr Peacock was a leading advocate of the Jubilee 2000 debt relief campaign and played an active role in the launching of the African campaign in April, in Accra, Ghana.
During the AACC General Committee meeting earlier this year in Nairobi, he expressed his passionate commitment to the Eighth Assembly and urged churches in Africa to support Zimbabwean churches in ensuring its success.
Messages of condolence were sent to his family by the AACC President, the Right Rev. Professor Kwesi Dickson, and its General Secretary, Canon Clement Janda.
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The World Council of Churches is a fellowship of churches, now 332, in more than 100 countries in all continents from virtually all Christian traditions. The Roman Catholic Church is not a member church but works cooperatively with the WCC. The highest governing body is the Assembly, which meets approximately every seven years. The WCC was formally inaugurated in 1948 in Amsterdam, Netherlands. Its staff is headed by general secretary Konrad Raiser from the Evangelical Church in Germany.