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:
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