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The 9th Assembly of the World Council of Churches (WCC) starts today in Porto Alegre. News and features, live webcasting of sessions, photos and online videoclips, including TV-quality footage will be available.

News and features

They will be distributed by e-mail and posted at the Assembly website:

www.wcc-assembly.info

You should expect a rather substantial amount of material arriving to your mailbox during the next ten days.

Photos and documents

Reports, presentations, discourses, greetings presented at the Assembly will be available at the Assembly website. Photos, including a selection of them as free of charge high-resolution files can be found at:

www.wcc-assembly.info/en/news-media.html

Webcasting of plenary sessions

All the thematic plenary sessions will be broadcast live in English, and also recorded so that they can be watched later. In addition, 2-3 video clips of around 5 minutes each will be published every day. All videos will be posted at

www.wcc-assembly.info/en/news-media/webcast.html

where you can also find a schedule of the webcasts

TV-quality footage

For media, TV-quality videos with 2-3 minutes of footage will also be available in MPEG-2 format, broadcast quality. Interested TV producers should request the URL where the videos can be downloaded free of charge, as well as an ID and password, by sending a message to [email protected]

RSS feed

An RSS feed is available at www.wcc-assembly.info/en/news-media.html