WCC expresses condolences at death of I. Jesudasan
The World Council of Churches (WCC) general secretary Rev. Dr Olav Fykse Tveit has expressed “great sadness” on the passing away of Rev. Dr I. Jesudasan, the former moderator and bishop of the Church of South India and member of the WCC Central Committee from 1983 to 1991.
Towards full participation of people with disabilities in churches
In a recent meeting in the Netherlands, theologians and ecumenists came together to give renewed consideration to an interim statement titled A Church of All and for All, first produced in 2003 by the Ecumenical Disability Advocates Network and the WCC’s Commission on Faith and Order.
New mission statement part of European ecumenical study course
A new WCC document on mission and evangelism was presented and discussed at a recent European ecumenical study course in Josefstal, Germany.