Churches overcoming racism
Overcoming racism and the need to focus attention on the life and dignity of its victims has been a major WCC concern for several decades. Regrettably, new forms of racism constantly emerge and racial violence is on the rise.
The WCC challenges the churches to address racism in their own structures and life, and draws on their work and experience in this struggle.
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Related documentsBeing church and overcoming racism. It's time for transformative justiceAs part of an Ecumenical Study on Racism, this paper is a discussion-starter at the 2002 WCC central committee meeting on churches acting through transformative justice to overcome racism.
Making a fresh start: the urgency of combatting racismWCC report on its participation in the UN World Conference against Racism Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance (WCAR)
held in Durban, South Africa, from 31 August to 7 September 2001
Understanding racism todayA revised and expanded version of a dossier produced for the WCC Harare Assembly, 1998
Abolished, but not destroyed: Remembering the slave trade in the 21st centuryStatement by the International Ecumenical Conference in Commemoration of the 200th Anniversary of the Abolition of the British Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade, December 2007.
The challenge of racism today: Rationale for an ongoing ecumenical commitmentThe result of a 4-5 December 2008 meeting with some of those who have been involved in the work of the Programme to Combat Racism (PCR) to consider appropriate ways in which its 40th anniversary might be commemorated in 2009.
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