Central Committee meeting, 13 - 20 February 2008
The central committee serves as the main decision-making body of the WCC between assemblies. This is the second meeting of the new committee, elected in February 2006 at the 9th Assembly in Porto Alegre, Brazil.
Highlights
WCC says a proposed new treaty to ban cluster munitions must be strong
The WCC Central Committee this week condemned a whole category of peculiarly indiscriminate weapons known as cluster munitions. A cluster munition scatters many small bombs in order to kill and...
[more]"Like being in the center of the globe"
Nazeli Kandakarjian, a member of the Armenian Apostolic Church (Holy See of Cilicia) in Lebanon, is serving as a young adult steward at these central committee meetings. She says it is a...
[more]A presentation from the Pacific
To celebrate the 60th anniversary of the WCC, the member churches of the Pacific presented a wood and shell plaque to the organisation and shell medallions to the moderator and other officers.
[more]A Dame of ecumenism
Dr Mary Tanner, WCC president from Europe, was late for these central committee meetings. She had a good reason, though: an audience with Britain's Queen Elizabeth II.
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Publications
BEM at 25
Edited by Thomas F. Best and Tamara Grdzelidze
This vibrant collection of essays, from a wide range of confessions and regions, explores the continuing legacy of BEM. It raises critical questions on how churches acted upon the agreements signaled in BEM.
Come Holy Spirit, Heal and Reconcile
This is the report on the 2005 Conference on World Mission and Evangelism (CWME) which met in Greece, bringing together participants ranging from Roman Catholics to Pentecostal and evangelical churches, as well as movements not necessarily among the World Council of Churches' membership. (Book including CD-Rom)
