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Sermon by the WCC moderator Bishop Dr Heinrich Bedford-Strohm during at the International Meeting for Peace / St. Egidio community on 12 September in Berlin, Germany.

“The Love of Christ Compels Us”: Sermon of the WCC General Secretary Rev Dr Olav Fykse Tveit in the Nieuwe Kerk, Amsterdam on 23 August 2018

Sermon by Bishop (em) Bärbel von Wartenberg-Potter at worship service for climate justice, on 12 November 2017, 9:30 St Paulus Church, Bonn, Germany

Bishop Schindehütte was part of a small EKD delegation visiting the LWF, WCRC and WCC on 28 November 2012 for talks about the Reformation Jubilee in 2017. During morning prayers, Bishop Martin Schindehütte of the Evangelical Church in Germany gave a short reflection on John 1:1-15.

Following up on their earlier calls for nuclear disarmament, four global, regional and national ecumenical organizations told leaders of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), the European Union and Russia that NATO and its member states should seize the opportunity of the Defence and Deterrence Review in 2011 to take bold steps and end the anachronistic policy of nuclear sharing including the deployment of United States tactical nuclear weapons in Europe.

"Now is the time to continue the trend" toward nuclear disarmament, four global, regional and national ecumenical organizations told leaders of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), the European Union and Russia. "The present opportunity must be transformed into conclusive actions."

This statement on the humanitarian crisis in Sri Lanka caused by the 25-year civil war was reviewed and approved by the WCC executive committee in Luebeck, September 2008.

This statement recognizing the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights was approved by consensus by the WCC executive committee in Luebeck, September 2008.

This statement on religious violence and intolerance in India expressing concern about the alarming trend of growing communal violence and religious intolerance in India was approved by the WCC executive committee in Luebeck, September 2008