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Messages and letters
Congratulations to new Council for World Mission moderator
Letter to Peruvian President García
20th anniversary of 1st European Ecumenical Assembly
Congratulations to Indian Prime Minister Singh
Congratulations to Archbishop Vicken
Greetings to Ion Bria Conference
Letter to the President of Sri Lanka
Presbyterian Church in Taiwan assembly greetings
Presbyterian Church of East Africa assembly greetings
Letter to NATO member states
Letter to G20 countries on the current crisis
Congratulations to Bishop Johannes Hempel
Letter to the UN secretary general on the situation in DRC
Congratulations to new Russian Orthodox Patriarch
Letter to the President of Sri Lanka
Encouragement to member churches in the Middle East
Christmas Message 2008
Letter to the President of Sri Lanka
Congratulations to Church of Pakistan's new moderator
Letter to the Indian Prime Minister following the terrorist attacks in Mumbai
Letter requesting input to the Ecumenical Declaration on Just Peace
Letter to the churches in Iraq
Message to the Synod of Bishops XII Ordinary General Assembly
Blessing of the Holy Muron
Solidarity message to churches in India
Birthday wishes for Nelson Mandela
Message to the 34th General Assembly of the WSCF
Letter to WCC member churches in Korea
Letter to the South Korean President Lee Myung-bak
Message to the LWF Council meeting in Tanzania
Call on the UN to end violence in Zimbabwe
Invitation to WCC member churches to pray for Zimbabwe
On xenophobic violence in South Africa
Letter to the UN secretary general on Myanmar and China
Condolences for Chinese earthquake victims
Condolences to Myanmar cyclone victims
Letter of congratulations to Republic of Paraguay President-elect Fernando Lugo
Letter on Zimbabwe to the President of Zambia
Letter on Zimbabwe to the UN General Secretary
Letter to the Prelate of the Church of Greece
Alarming humanitarian situation in Gaza
Christmas Message 2007
Letter to the Patriarch of Jerusalem and All Palestine
13-12-07 Letter to the President of Brazil
Letter to EU trade commissioner Mandelson on interim agreements with ACP countries
Annapolis Meeting: Letter to US, Israeli and Palestinian authorities
Letter to Metropolitan Dr. Joseph Mar Irenaeus
Message for the enthronment of Patriarch Daniel of Romania
Letter to the Patriarch of the Romanian Orthodox Church
Letter to the National Council of Churches of Korea
Letter to the Pacific Conference of Churches' Assembly
Letter to the ecumenical patriarch Bartholomew
Letter to the President of Rwanda
WCC calls on the ecumenical family to pray for Afghanistan hostages
Reconciliation among Oriental Orthodox Churches
24-05-07 Letter to the Grand Rabbin Izhak Dayan
18-05-07 Letter to the Prime Minister of Jordan
Renuka Mukerji Somasekhar
Letter to the Turkish Ambassador to the UN in Geneva
90th birthday Mar Chrysostom
Sri Lanka expression of concern
Birthday greeting to Pope Benedict XVI
LWF 60th anniversary
Anniversary abolition of trans-Atlantic slave trade
Letter to member churches of the WCC in the UK
Greetings to CCA 50th Anniversary
Epiphany letter
Wolfram Kistner
Lukas Vischer 80th birthday
Christmas message
Fr Boulos Iskander
Congratulations to Muhammad Yunus
Congratulations to Ban Ki-Moon
Stabbing of Philippines bishop
North Korea nuclear testing
Archbishop Desmond Tutu
Arms trade draft resolution
Recognition of Patriarch Theolophilus III
WCC/LWF/WARC appeal for end to violence
Appeal to the international community
Congo elections
Pastoral letter on the violence in the Middle East
Letter to members of UN Security Council
كتاب عن الأزمة في الشرق الأوسط
Children and armed conflict
Letter to President Bush regarding Cuba
WCC letter to member churches in Indonesia
WCC letter to Indonesian president
Letter to Brazilian churches
Response to US member churches
Human Rights Council
Philippines
Uganda children
Israeli-Palestinian conflict
Evo Morales - felicitaciones
Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf
Escalation of violence in Sri Lanka (January 2006)
Christmas Message 2005
WCC letter to Ethiopian prime minister Meles Zenawi
Respect for people and nature
UN reform
International Day of Prayer for Peace
Hurricane Katrina
Iraqi tragedy
Bomb blasts in London
An appeal on the crisis in Ethiopia
Carta a las iglesias de Bolivia
Letter to UK prime minister Tony Blair
WCC appeals to Libyan leader for clemency
Memorandum to the UN secrtary-general
Letter to Pope Benedict XVI
Sudan peace agreement
Christmas Message 2004
Letter to member churches in the US
Letter to Nobel peace prize-winner Wangari Maathai
Christmas Message 1999
Speeches
3rd Congress of Leaders of World and Traditional Religions
International Theological Conference "Promised Land"
At the Sudan Church Leaders Conference
Address to the General Synod of the Protestant Church in the Netherlands
07-11-28 Address to the MECC General Assembly
EEA3, Sibiu, Romania
Chang Seong, Korea: Transforming Theology
Great Korean Revival 100th Anniversary Conference
Peace conference, Amman
Religious leaders conference, Cologne
Kirchentag
Church role in secularized societies
Latvia heads of churches
Called to be one
Edinburgh 2010
Global migration and new ecclesial realities
The interactive relationship between spiritual formation and social concern
New visions and challenges to ecumenism in the 21st century
Ecumenism in the 21st century
Address to the 19th World Methodist Council
Global challenges to North American Christians
Religion in global society
Address to His Holiness Pope Benedict XVI
Keynote address, Korea
Acceptance of election as general secretary
World Summit for Social Development
Tributes
Patriarch Alexy II
Prof. Dr Todor Sabev
Clement John
Father Vitaly Borovoy
Chiara Lubich, founder of the Focolare movement
Rev. Dr Lukas Vischer
His Beatitude Christodoulos
Claire Randall
Rev. Kim Dong Wan
His Beatitude Teoctist
Rev. Dr Letty Russell
Pasteur Lazare Kinda
Bishop Pierre Duprey
von Weizsäcker
Robert Billheimer
Metropolitan Chrysostomos of Ephesus
Masao Takenaka
Philip Potter 85th birthday
Tribute to Rev. Dr Kang Won Yong
Grand rabbin Alexandre Safran
Baselios Marthoma Mathews II
Coretta Scott King
Former German president Johannes Rau
Taizé's founder brother Roger Louis Schutz-Marsauche
South Sudan leader, Dr John Garang
Pope John Paul II
Patriarche Petros d'Alexandrie
Sermons
"...and who is my neighbour?"
"The journey is home" - Sermon at Holy Trinity Church Dubai
Homily at the final ceremony of "A world without violence" in Naples
The gift of unity
Sermon at Chaoyang Church, Beijing
Statements
Comment on North Korea nuclear test
Statement on the Gaza crisis
Faith in Human Rights
Comment on signing of Cluster Munitions Convention
Statement on the global financial crisis
World Food Day 2008
Statement on post-election situation in Zimbabwe
Comment on Ingrid Betancourt's liberation in Colombia
Food and faith
Cluster Munitions Convention, Dublin 2008
Israel and Palestine - 60 years
Killings in Gaza and Israel
Statement on Kenya initiatives to overcome violence
Statement on post-election violence in Kenya
Human rights in the Philippines
Shootings in Virginia, USA
Statement on Iraq
On the Agreement Reached at The Six Party Talks
On the execution of deposed Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein
Solidarity with Fiji churches
Response to LWF/WARC on "ecumenical assembly"
Conflict between Israel and Lebanon
Statement on Jerusalem killings
Wider ecumenical movement (incl WCC)
Joint call on Zimbabwean leaders
WCC LWF letter to the Prime Minister of India
Public comment on the situation in Georgia
Joint Global Ecumenical Leaders Statement on the Zimbabwe Political Parties Pact
Joint WCC-WSCF letter on Zimbabwe
Letter to His All Holiness Bartholomew I
Letter from REOs to Kofi Annan
Ecumenical prayer service for peace in Iraq
Messages and letters to the WCC general secretary
Living Letters team, Haiti
Letter of the Lebanese Prime Minister to the WCC general secretary (extracts)