El siguiente mensaje fue enviado por el pastor Dwain C. Epps, Director de la Comisión de las Iglesias para Asuntos Internacionales del CMI a las iglesias hermanas de Colombia ante la matanza en la Iglesia de Bellavista :

De diversas fuentes nos ha llegado la noticia de la muerte, el pasado 2 de mayo, de más de cien civiles refugiados (entre ellos...

The first meeting of the Faith and Order Commission of the World Council of Churches (WCC), held in Lausanne on 3 August 1927, had very high hopes. Participants believed that the goal of visible unity of the churches was really attainable.

The preacher at the time, Bishop Charles Brent of the Protestant Episcopal Church of the US, reminded the representatives of the...

cf. WCC Press Release, PR-01-49, of 21 December 2001

On 6 May, World Council of Churches' (WCC) general secretary Rev. Dr Konrad Raiser sent a letter to the churches and Christian communities in Haiti, commending a joint...

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The following is the full text of the oral intervention by Martin Doolard on behalf of the Commission of the Churches on International Affairs of the World Council of Churches (WCC/CCIA) to the 58th Session of the United Nations Commission on Human Rights on Tuesday, 16 April....

"Suddenly from heaven there came a sound like the rush of a violent wind...." (Acts 2:2; NRSV)

Holy Scripture depicts in simple language the event of the first Pentecost in the life of Christ's Church: "After his suffering Jesus presented himself alive to the apostles by many convincing proofs, appearing to them during forty days and speaking about...

"The...

The following is the text of a preliminary report by a WCC delegation which visited Jerusalem from April 2-4, 2002....

Offers from church representatives to mediate in the current crisis are being ignored by the Israeli government states Mr Georges Lemopoulos, the deputy general secretary of the World Council of Churches (WCC). Just back from a three-day visit to Jerusalem, the comment was his first reaction to the...

The deputy general secretary of the World Council of Churches (WCC), Georges Lemopoulos, is travelling to Jerusalem 2-4 April to meet with the Greek Orthodox Patriarch of Jerusalem, His Beatitude Irineos I.

Lemopoulos will also meet with the other patriarchs and heads of churches and Christian communities in Jerusalem to discuss, amongst other issues, the recent...