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By Binu Alex

The first volume of the newly revised Traduction oecuménique de la Bible (TOB) will be launched at the World Council of Churches coinciding with the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity. The launch will take place on

The Week of Prayer for Christian Unity

By Kersten Storch and Tom Best

Cf. WCC Press Update PU-03-43 of 13 November 2003

The World Council of Churches (WCC) on 6 February wrote to Eduard Shevardnadze, appealing to the Georgian president to bring to justice those responsible for "violent attacks against those peacefully gathering to mark the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity in the Central Baptist Church in Tbilisi on 24 January".

During the 2003 Week of Prayer for Christian Unity and in the spirit of the Decade to Overcome Violence

By Royal Orr

It took some arguing, some assurances and some wise words, but in the end the final report of the Special Commission on Orthodox Relations in the World Council of Churches (WCC) was accepted by a consensus of the Central Committee.Â

The rhetoric was impassioned at times, but the 32-page final report of the Special Commission on Orthodox Participation in the World Council of Churches (WCC) invoked few new questions from Central Committee members.

"We must have the courage to admit that the market and globalization have failed more than two-thirds of the world population who live in poverty," says Dr Molefe Tsele, general secretary of the South African Council of Churches (SACC). "The evidence, which is impossible to hide any longer, is that we are now living with the legacy of unparalleled inequality between North and South, impoverishment, and deprivation of the barest necessities of life and dignity."

The first meeting of the Faith and Order Commission of the World Council of Churches (WCC), held in Lausanne on 3 August 1927, had very high hopes. Participants believed that the goal of visible unity of the churches was really attainable.

The deputy general secretary of the World Council of Churches (WCC), Georges Lemopoulos, is travelling to Jerusalem 2-4 April to meet with the Greek Orthodox Patriarch of Jerusalem, His Beatitude Irineos I.

As Argentina struggles with a serious economic, political and social crisis, the general secretary of the World Council of Churches (WCC), Rev. Dr Konrad Raiser, has praised Argentina's churches, ecumenical organizations and civil society. In a 10 January 2002 letter to the country's churches, Raiser said he had been deeply moved by the way they had responded to what, for him, was also to some extent an "ethical and spiritual" crisis.