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By the Rev. Andreas Maurer, Association of Churches and Missions in South Western Germany (EMS)

By the Rev. Robert O. Smith, Evangelical Lutheran Church in America – Global Mission, USA

By Rev. Dr Emmanuel Clapsis, Holy Cross – Greek Orthodox School of Theology, Boston, USA

Welcome Remarks by Rev. Dr Samuel Kobia, WCC General Secretary, at International Theological Conference, "Promised Land", at Church Center Bürenpark, Bern, Switzerland. 10 - 14 September 2008.

By the Rev. Dr Samuel Kobia, WCC general secretary

Twenty four participants gathered at Westminster College in Cambridge to engage in the first of a series of consultations under the title of Tradition and traditions. The aim of the meeting was to build on the work begun by the WCC in the 1960s and, by paying particular attention to the teachers and witnesses of the early church, to explore further the possibility of discovering, re-discovering or re-receiving some particular sources of authority which might help us together on the way to the unity of the church.

The World Council of Churches (WCC) and the Lutheran World Federation (LWF) jointly call on the President of India to end the violence in the state of Orissa.

Joint Communique the CCA General Committee, the members of the WCC Central Committee from Asia, the NCC General Secretaries and the Asia Regional Group at a Joint Consultation in the Hope Centre, Dhaka, Bangladesh, from the 31st of August to the 3rd of September 2008.

As hundreds of thousands of people from the US Gulf Coast have evacuated their homes, fleeing from Hurricane Gustav as they did from Katrina three years earlier, US churches keep praying and providing relief. They also denounce underlying social and economic conditions that make for the vulnerability of the region.

The World Council of Churches and the Conference of European Churches express alarm and distress at the use of force in the dispute over South Ossetia and Abkhazia.

Rev. Dr Shanta Premawardhana, director of the WCC programme on Inter-religious Dialogue and Cooperation comments on the World Conference on Dialogue, which took place in Madrid, Spain, 16-18 July 2008.

Madrid, Spain