Release: United Nations Climate Conference in Marrakesh:
World Council of Churches delegation plans a Christian-Muslim colloquium on religion and environment
24.10.01 |
Feature: International Conference on Financing for Development in 2002: Ecumenical team gives priority to "transformation of the international financial system" |
16.10.01 |
Release: President of Germany, Dr Johannes Rau, to visit the World Council of Churches |
08.10.01 |
Update: WCC urges the United States of America and the United Kingdom to bring a prompt end to military action against Afghanistan |
05.10.01 |
Release: Ecumenical organizations join forces to lift up churches' voices in response to current global events |
04.10.01 |
Release: DOV festival in Tanzania takes up challenges after 11 September attacks |
02.10.01 |
De Última Hora: CMI y representantes de las iglesias de Colombia preparan documento para una futura cooperacíon ecuménica |
02.10.01 |
Update: The answer to terrorism should not lead to more violence and terror: WCC general secretary writes to UN secretary-general |
01.10.01 |
Release: Harry de Lange (1919-2001) |
21.09.01 |
Feature: Refugee women talk |
21.09.01 |
Update: WCC pastoral letter to US churches urges discernment in response to attacks |
20.09.01 |
Feature: Church of Christ in the Congo targets new ministry to uprooted people |
19.09.01 |
Feature: Uprooted people tell tales of suffering and hope |
18.09.01 |
Feature: The church and the stranger: uprooted people in the Democratic Republic of Congo |
14.09.01 |
Release: Executive Committee reaffirms WCC policy on the pursuit of a just peace in the Middle East |
14.09.01 |
Release: WCC Executive Committee concerned about deteriorating economic and social situation in Zimbabwe |
11.09.01 |
Release: Message to the churches and people of the United States of America |
11.09.01 |
Release: Christians and churches called to reconciliation and healing: Commission on World Mission and Evangelism starts preparations for world mission conference in 2005 |
08.09.01 |
Update: WCAR: another chance to start again |
07.09.01 |
Update: Statement by the World Council of Churches delegation at the UN World Conference Against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance, Durban, South Africa |
04.09.01 |
Update: Archbishop Tutu to deliver Ecumenical Caucus statement at World Conference Against Racism |
03.09.01 |
Update: From the panel to the writing desk: The World Conference Against Racism: no longer a matter of lively and direct encounter but of polishing sentences and paragraphs |
31.08.01 |
Update: "We are making history": WCC delegation at the United Nations World Conference against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance |
30.08.01 |
Feature: Cikle and Fatmir: living inter-ethnic cooperation in Macedonia |
30.08.01 |
Release: Australian treatment of asylum seekers "deeply troubling" says WCC |
27.08.01 |
Release: "Racism no more" is motto of ecumenical delegation at World Conference against Racism |
24.08.01 |
Update: Thabo Mbeki asks churches to promote conflict resolution in Southern Africa |
16.08.01 |
Update: Call to churches: Resist economic globalization! |
16.08.01 |
Feature: Good news to the poor? |
13.08.01 |
Release: WCC general secretary to visit Southern Africa. |
09.08.01 |
Release: Economic globalization consultation: Another world is possible! |
08.08.01 |
Update: Consultation on Israeli-Palestinian conflict decides on coordinated ecumenical action |
06.08.01 |
Release: What would it mean for the world if there were no Christian Palestinians left in the Holy Land? |
30.07.01 |
Feature: "Honour Kyoto!" watchword for WCC delegation at climate change conference |
24.07.01 |
Release: Stanley Jedidiah Samartha (1920-2001) |
24.07.01 |
Update: Disappointed at small arms agreement, WCC also sees hope for a stronger platform for common action |
16.07.01 |
Update: Oral Intervention on reduction of demand for small arms and the role of faith communities |
16.07.01 |
Release: WCC delegation at the climate conference in Bonn :
the Kyoto Protocol must be kept alive |
13.07.01 |
Release: "Peace to the City" dancing in the United States |
13.07.01 |
Release: WCC shares churches' hopes for success of India-Pakistan summit |
11.07.01 |
Release: WCC general secretary Konrad Raiser visits Albania |
06.07.01 |
Release: Churches use story, symbol and dance to protest the use of and trade in small arms |
29.06.01 |
Update: Majority excluded from global decision-making: Ecumenical consultation on economic globalization in central and eastern Europe |
28.06.01 |
Update: After UN special session on HIV/AIDS, religious communities need to mobilize their own constituencies for more effective action |
26.06.01 |
Update: Broad support for WCC-facilitated interfaith statement during UN General Assembly on HIV/AIDS |
25.06.01 |
Release: WCC Delegation to visit Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories |
25.06.01 |
Update: Eastern Europe: "A piece of the continent" |
25.06.01 |
Update: Inter-faith statement calls for increased partnership between faith-based organizations, governments and inter-governmental organizations |
22.06.01 |
Release: Maria Teresa Porcile Santiso - 1943-2001 |
20.06.01 |
Release: Visit to the Russian Orthodox Church by an ecumenical delegation |
19.06.01 |
Release: WCC urges UN organizations to involve churches and faith-based organizations more closely in the fight against HIV/AIDS |
18.06.01 |
Release:
Churches worldwide are preparing to challenge economic globalization - Major consultations in Hungary and Fiji |
15.06.01 |
Release: Bush climate change proposals inadequate, says WCC |
13.06.01 |
Release: "Peace is too important to be left only to the politicians..." Round table meeting with the religious communities of the FYR of Macedonia at Morges, Switzerland |
5.06.01 |
Feature: Sri Lanka's people long for peace |
1.06.01 |
Update: WCC delegation critical of slow progress and NGO shut-out from preparations for UN World Conference Against Racism |
31.05.01 |
Update: WCC delegation joins NGO protest against exclusion of Dalits from UN World Conference on Racism |
31.05.01 |
Update: Ecumenical team concerned about lack of provisions for proposed Global Fund for AIDS: Church representatives at second preparatory meeting of UN's special session HIV/AIDS |
30.05.01 |
Update: Asia-Pacific conference presents action plan to combat racism: church representatives prepare for UN World Conference |
29.05.01 |
Feature: Robinson's Village: How life is returning to an Armenian village |
23.05.01 |
Feature: "Interreligious dialogue is not an ambulance": A discussion on religious tolerance, conflict and peace-building |
18.05.01 |
Release: Message of the presidents of the WCC at Pentecost 2001 |
18.05.01 |
Update: North Americans in WCC prepare for UN World Conference against Racism |
14.05.01 |
Feature: "The strength of the Armenian Church lies in its very real ties with the people": 1700 years since Christianity was proclaimed as Armenia's state religion |
07.05.01 |
Release: Decade to Overcome Violence: Churches bring own perspectives to national and regional launches |
03.05.01 |
Feature: Challenge for change in Polynesia |
18.04.01 |
Feature: Churches called to repentance and confession |
17.04.01 |
Update: WCC calls on European Union to support Human Rights Commission resolution on violation of human rights in Palestine |
09.04.01 |
Feature: Praying and working together for unity: Reflections on pursuing a common date for Easter |
06.04.01 |
Update: Oral intervention on the protection of freedom of opinion and expression in Guatemala |
03.04.01 |
Update: Tahitian churches denounce family violence and destruction of environment, WCC delegation in French Polynesia |
02.04.01 |
Update: Oral intervention on the violation of human rights and funadamental freedom in West Papua/Irian Jaya, Indonesia, and in Cyprus |
30.03.01 |
Update: WCC encourages countries to continue working towards the ratification of the Kyoto Protocol despite its rejection by the Bush administration |
29.03.01 |
Update: Modern social customs a challenge for the church, WCC delegation visits Cook Islands/Rarotonga |
28.03.01 |
Update: Oral intervention on the question of the violation of human rights in the occupied Arab territories, including Palestine |
27.03.01 |
Update: WCC fellowship the place to deal with the challenges of change, WCC general secretary tells church leaders in Samoa and American Samoa |
27.03.01 |
Update: Devastating human costs of small arms and light weapons, WCC team at UN small arms prepcom |
19.03.01 |
Update: Rising hopes for peace in Sri Lanka, WCC general secretary on pastoral visit |
19.03.01 |
Release: WCC general secretary to visit Samoa, American Samoa, Cook Islands and French Polynesia |
16.03.01 |
Release: UN Commission on Human Rights - WCC to focus on globalisation and religious freedom |
13.03.01 |
Release: Northeast Asian consultation redefines "national security" |
12.03.01 |
Update: WCC general secretary and the president of Bangladesh discuss minority rights, religious fundamentalism and development |
08.03.01 |
Release: WCC general secretary to visit Bangladesh and Sri Lanka |
06.03.01 |
Release: Ecumenical team calls for "radical rethinking" of the ways churches and faith communities respond to HIV/AIDS |
04.03.01 |
Release: WCC welcomes new president of Pontifical Council, honours retiring Cardinal Cassidy |