Assembly Programme Book

Within the pages of this Programme Book are several key texts and documents for delegates and other participants attending the ninth assembly of the World Council of Churches (WCC) in Porto Alegre, Brazil, from 14 to 23 February 2006.

The entire Programme Book is available in PDF version.

Individual documents are also available separately:

• Official working documents:
  - Called to be the one church
  - Alternative globalization addressing people and earth (AGAPE) : a call to love and action
  - Call to recommitment: mid-term of the Decade to Overcome Violence 2001-2010: churches seeking reconciliation and peace
  - WCC financial profile: recent history and current trends
• Policy documents:
  - Guidelines for the conduct of meetings
  - Constitution and rules of the WCC
  - Final report of the Special Commission on Orthodox participation in the WCC
  - When Christian solidarity is broken: a pastoral and educational response to sexual harassment
• Ecumenical conversations:
  - Introduction
  - Changing religious and cultural context
  - Changing ecclesial and ecumenical context
  - Changing international and political context
  - Changing social and economic context
• Resource documents:
  - Religious plurality and Christian self-understanding
  - Global Christian Forum
  - Joint consultative group WCC-Pentecostals 2000-2005: excerpts from the report to the Ninth Assembly 
  - Mid-term of the Ecumenical Decade to Overcome Violence 2001-2010: Churches seeking reconciliation and peace (background document)