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The WCC executive committee will also review programme reports and audited financial results for 2024; and membership matters. The governing body will release statements on public issues affecting the life and witness of the churches, as well as review followup to previous decisions.
In addition, the WCC executive committee will receive 2024 narrative programme reports and monitor programme work, receive the report of the audit committee and appoint auditors for 2025, adopt 2024 financial statements, and conduct financial monitoring.The governing body will also receive the report of the membership contributions working group.
“It is always a very special occasion to meet in the WCC executive committee,” said Bishop Prof. Dr Heinrich Bedford-Strohm, moderator of the WCC central committee. “We all represent very different contexts from where we come.”
At the same time, Bedford-Strohm added, the members of the WCC executive committee are connected through their common faith. “I experience it as a great blessing that we listen to each other in all our diversity and so often reach a consensus in questions over which the world is divided,” he said. “I am confident that we will again be able to give such sign of unity to the world in our upcoming meeting.”
On 15 May, the WCC executive committee will wear black in solidarity for the Thursdays in Black campaign for a world free from rape and violence.
