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Middle East: Pray, help and speak out, says WCC general secretary

The World Council of Churches (WCC) general secretary Rev. Dr Samuel Kobia encouraged the Council's member churches to pray for all those suffering as a result of the Middle East crisis, to support the appeals for emergency aid and to speak out for justice among the states and peoples in the region.

Haiti: Hope depends on human security say churches

A high-level meeting to urge the strengthening and continued presence of the UN peacekeeping force in Haiti was held on 14 July in New York, hosted by the Canadian government in collaboration with the UN liaison office of the World Council of Churches (WCC) and World Vision.

WCC's Kobia at World Methodist Council

WCC general secretary Rev. Dr Samuel Kobia is the guest speaker at the 19th World Methodist Council in Seoul, Korea from 20-24 July. The overall conference theme is "God in Christ Reconciling".

Churches and the UN: protecting children

The plight of the world's children was in focus at a high-level panel discussion organized by the WCC UN liaison office in New York on 13 July on the theme "Churches and the United Nations: Building a Partnership for the Protection of Children".

Small arms, big issue for the churches

For five years since the first UN global conference on small arms in 2001, hopes around the world were that this year's follow-up conference, which concluded on 7 July, would find new ways to contain the intercontinental epidemic of guns and gun violence.

Overcoming Violence: Focus on Europe 2007

"Make me a Channel of Your Peace", the first line of the prayer of a peacemaker attributed to Saint Francis of Assisi, is to be the theme for the Focus on Europe 2007 of the WCC's Decade to Overcome Violence (DOV).