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Messages and letters
18-07-08 Birthday wishes for Nelson Mandela
01-07-08 Letter to WCC member churches in Korea
01-07-08 Letter to the South Korean President Lee Myung-bak
24-06-08 Message to the LWF Council meeting in Tanzania
18-06-08 Call on the UN to end violence in Zimbabwe
17-06-08 Invitation to WCC member churches to pray for Zimbabwe
05-06-08 On xenophobic violence in South Africa
03-06-08 Letter to the UN secretary general on Myanmar and China
21-05-08 Condolences for Chinese earthquake victims
06-05-08 Condolences to Myanmar cyclone victims
29-04-08 Letter of congratulations to Republic of Paraguay President-elect Fernando Lugo
11-04-08 Letter on Zimbabwe to the President of Zambia
11-04-08 Letter on Zimbabwe to the UN General Secretary
08-02-08 Letter to the Prelate of the Church of Greece
23-01-08 Alarming humanitarian situation in Gaza
18-12-07 Letter to the Patriarch of Jerusalem and All Palestine
13-12-07 Letter to the President of Brazil
06-12-07 Letter to EU trade commissioner Mandelson on interim agreements with ACP countries
26-11-07 Annapolis Meeting: Letter to US, Israeli and Palestinian authorities
01-10-07 Letter to Metropolitan Dr. Joseph Mar Irenaeus
30-09-07 Message for the enthronment of Patriarch Daniel of Romania
14-09-07 Letter to the Patriarch of the Romanian Orthodox Church
30-08-07 Letter to the National Council of Churches of Korea
30-08-07 Letter to the Pacific Conference of Churches' Assembly
29-08-07 Letter to the ecumenical patriarch Bartholomew
07-08-07 Letter to the President of Rwanda
24-07-07 WCC calls on the ecumenical family to pray for Afghanistan hostages
19-07-07 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
01-05-07 Renuka Mukerji Somasekhar
01-05-07 Letter to the Turkish Ambassador to the UN in Geneva
25-04-07 90th birthday Mar Chrysostom
20-04-07 Sri Lanka expression of concern
17-04-07 Birthday greeting to Pope Benedict XVI
24-03-07 LWF 60th anniversary
16-03-07 Anniversary abolition of trans-Atlantic slave trade
09-03-07 Letter to member churches of the WCC in the UK
05-03-07 Greetings to CCA 50th Anniversary
15-01-07 Epiphany letter
05-12-06 Wolfram Kistner
23-11-06 Lukas Vischer 80th birthday
15-11-06 Christmas message
17-10-06 Fr Boulos Iskander
16-10-06 Congratulations to Muhammad Yunus
16-10-06 Congratulations to Ban Ki-Moon
10.10.06 Stabbing of Philippines bishop
09.10.06 North Korea nuclear testing
06-10-06 Archbishop Desmond Tutu
06-10-06 Arms trade draft resolution
29-09-06 Recognition of Patriarch Theolophilus III
08-08-06 WCC/LWF/WARC appeal for end to violence
03-08-06 Appeal to the international community
24-07-06 Congo elections
21-07-06 Pastoral letter on the violence in the Middle East
21-07-06 Letter to members of UN Security Council
21-07-06 كتاب عن الأزمة في الشرق الأوسط
13-07-06 Children and armed conflict
13-07-06 Conflict between Israel and Lebanon
10-07-06 Letter to President Bush regarding Cuba
29-05-06 WCC letter to member churches in Indonesia
29-05-06 WCC letter to Indonesian president
18-05-06 Letter to Brazilian churches
08-05-06 Response to US member churches
20-03-06 Human Rights Council
07-03-06 Philippines
23-02-06 Uganda children
08-02-06 Israeli-Palestinian conflict
31-01-06 Evo Morales - felicitaciones
31-01-06 Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf
20-01-06 Escalation of violence in Sri Lanka (January 2006)
20-11-05 Christmas Message 2005
04-11-05 WCC letter to Ethiopian prime minister Meles Zenawi
27-09-05 Respect for people and nature
07-09-05 UN reform
05-09-05 International Day of Prayer for Peace
01-09-05 Hurricane Katrina
01-09-05 Iraqi tragedy
07-07-05 Bomb blasts in London
10-06-05 An appeal on the crisis in Ethiopia
03-06-05 Carta a las iglesias de Bolivia
27-05-05 Letter to UK prime minister Tony Blair
24-05-05 WCC appeals to Libyan leader for clemency
21-04-05 Memorandum to the UN secrtary-general
20-04-05 Letter to Pope Benedict XVI
17-01-05 Sudan peace agreement
09-12-04 Christmas Message 2004
03-11-04 Letter to member churches in the US
08-10-04 Letter to Nobel peace prize-winner Wangari Maathai
Speeches
02-04-08 At the Sudan Church Leaders Conference
11-04-08 Address to the General Synod of the Protestant Church in the Netherlands
07-11-28 Address to the MECC General Assembly
05-09-07 EEA3, Sibiu, Romania
13-08-07 Chang Seong, Korea: Transforming Theology
09-08-07 Great Korean Revival 100th Anniversary Conference
18-06-07 Peace conference, Amman
05-06-07 Religious leaders conference, Cologne
07-06-07 2007 Kirchentag
01-06-07 Church role in secularized societies
31-05-07 Latvia heads of churches
02-05-07 Called to be one
27-04-07 Edinburgh 2010
25-04-07 Global migration and new ecclesial realities
24-11-06 The interactive relationship between spiritual formation and social concern
17-11-06 New visions and challenges to ecumenism in the 21st century
17-11-06 Ecumenism in the 21st century
22-07-06 Address to the 19th World Methodist Council
26-07-05 Global challenges to North American Christians
24-07-05 Religion in global society
16-06-05 Address to His Holiness Pope Benedict XVI
23-08-04 Keynote address, Korea
Tributes
03-06-08 Clement John
10-04-08 Father Vitaly Borovoy
14-03-08 Chiara Lubich, founder of the Focolare movement
12-03-08 Rev. Dr Lukas Vischer
28-01-08 His Beatitude Christodoulos
20-09-07 Claire Randall
17-09-07 Rev. Kim Dong Wan
31-07-07 His Beatitude Teoctist
18-07-07 Rev. Dr Letty Russell
16-07-07 Pasteur Lazare Kinda
14-05-07 Bishop Pierre Duprey
07-05-07 von Weizsäcker
18-01-07 Robert Billheimer
16-10-06 Metropolitan Chrysostomos of Ephesus
22-08-06 Masao Takenaka
18-08-08 Philip Potter 85th birthday
18-08-06 Tribute to Rev. Dr Kang Won Yong
28-07-06 Grand rabbin Alexandre Safran
31-01-06 Baselios Marthoma Mathews II
01-02-06 Coretta Scott King
27-01-06 Former German president Johannes Rau
17-08-05 Taizé's founder brother Roger Louis Schutz-Marsauche
03-08-05 South Sudan leader, Dr John Garang
03-04-05 Pope John Paul II
13-09-04 Patriarche Petros d’Alexandrie
Sermons
18-04-08 "The journey is home" - Sermon at Holy Trinity Church Dubai
23-10-07 Homily at the final ceremony of "A world without violence" in Naples
31-05-07 The gift of unity
19-11-06 Sermon at Chaoyang Church, Beijing
Visits
Archbishop Christodoulos
Statements
04-07-08 Statement on post-election situation in Zimbabwe
03-07-08 Comment on Ingrid Betancourt's liberation in Colombia
05-06-08 Food and faith
29-05-08 Cluster Munitions Convention, Dublin 2008
09-05-08 Israel and Palestine - 60 years
03-03-08 Killings in Gaza and Israel
09-01-08 Statement on Kenya initiatives to overcome violence
02-01-08 Statement on post-election violence in Kenya
21-11-07 Human rights in the Philippines
17-04-07 Shootings in Virginia, USA
15-03-07 Statement on Iraq
15-02-07 On the Agreement Reached at The Six Party Talks
30-12-06 On the execution of deposed Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein
06-12-06 Solidarity with Fiji churches
11-06 Response to LWF/WARC on "ecumenical assembly"
Wider ecumenical movement (incl WCC)
24-06-08 Joint WCC-WSCF letter on Zimbabwe
13-12-04 Letter to His All Holiness Bartholomew I
04-09-04 Letter from REOs to Kofi Annan
Messages and letters to the WCC general secretary
18-07-06 Letter of the Lebanese Prime Minister to the WCC general secretary (extracts)