WCC will offer churches’ perspective during June dialogue on humanitarian aid

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WCC will offer churches’ perspective during June dialogue on humanitarian aid

World Council of Churches (WCC) acting general secretary Rev. Prof. Dr Ioan Sauca will speak on “Churches and humanitarian aid” during a conference organized by the Foundation Dialogue for Peace, to be held 10 June in Geneva.

Refugees and migrants receive food and blankets from Hungarian Interchurch Aid, a member of the ACT Alliance, as they leave the Hungarian town of Hegyeshalom and prepare to cross the border into Austria. Hundreds of thousands of refugees and migrants flowed through Hungary in 2015, on their way to western Europe from Syria, Iraq and other countries.

In addition to Sauca, participants in the conference will include ambassadors, politicians, peace associations and personalities from different nationalities and cultures.

Participants will also discuss health and humanitarian aid in conflicts and crisis, economic development and humanitarian aid, and the role of the Red Cross and Red Crescent in humanitarian crisis.

Speakers will include:

H.E. David Beasly, executive director of the WFP and 2020 Nobel Prize winner
H.E. Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, director-general, WHO
Rev. Prof. Dr Ioan Sauca, acting general secretary, World Council of Churches
H.E. Dr Muhammad Bin Abulkarim Al-Issa, secretary general, Muslim World League
H.E. Kelly T. Clements, United Nations deputy high commissioner for Refugees
H.E. Kjell Magne Bondevik, former prime minister of Norway
H.E. Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani, former prime minister of Pakistan (video)
H.E. Nena Stoiljkovic, under secretary general, International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies
Aamir Javed Sheikh, head of Foundation Dialogue for Peace
Tomm Kristiansen (moderator), Norwegian journalist and author, especially known as a foreign correspondent for NRK