WCC executive committee tackles public issues

Fifty years after its assembly in Uppsala, Sweden, decisively turned to public engagement, the World Council of Churches (WCC) still seeks to engage and address issues of public concern and the common good.

Six public statements and a “minute” were issued by the WCC executive committee at its semi-annual meeting, returning 2-8 November to Uppsala, site of the earlier ecumenical gathering.

Among the important issues, public statements included urgent pleas to the international community and the churches to concentrate their advocacy and activism toward climate justice, economic justice and gender justice.

The public-issues statements in full:

• Statement on People on the Move: Migrants and Refugees
• Statement on COP 24 and Just Transition to Sustainable Economy
• Statement on Ecumenical Witness and Action for Primary Health Care for All: 40^th Anniversary of the Alma-Ata Declaration
• Statement on Reconciliation and Restoration in Ethiopia and Eritrea
• Statement on Sexual and Gender-Based Violence, and the 2018 Nobel Peace Prize
• Statement on the Urgent Challenge of Economic Transformation: 10 Years After the Global Financial Crisis
• Minute on the Impacts of Nuclear Weapons Testing in French Polynesia (Maóhi Nui), and Decolonization

Learn more about the WCC Executive Committee