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Song from Liberia contributed by Dr C. Michael Hawn, pastoral music program director and retired professor of church music in the USA, for the WCC 70th anniversary. As taught by Liberian students Isaac Chukpue-Padmore, Anna G. Kaydor, and Yatta Roslyn Young at Perkins School of Theology, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas, in 2003.

Contributed by Linnea Good, Christian singer-songwriter from Canada, for the WCC 70th anniversary. Written for an intercultural Christian exchange with the staff and students of the Christian Medical College Hospital in Vellore, Tamil Nadu, in 2015.

By WCC Executive Committee, Amman, Jordan, 17-23 November 2017.

This liturgy was prepared for World AIDS Day 2016, in connection with the launch of the campaign "Leading by Example: Religious Leaders and HIV Testing".

Theme song for the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity 2017​.
Text: Thomas Stubenrauch 2016, English: Neville Williamson © the authors Tune: Peter Sohren 1668, Halle 1704 (GL 463 / EG 506: Wenn ich, o Schöpfer, deine Macht)

One of the songs in Hosanna! Ecumenical Songs for Justice and Peace, a collection of 89 songs for people whose journey of faith embraces the themes and challenges of justice and peace.

The conflict in Tanah Papua (West Papua) has cost the lives of thousands of people since the late 1960s.

The WCC Central Committee encourages its member churches to be attentive to peoples and organisations working to combat human trafficking and migrant smuggling, particularly in their struggle against organised crime.

The executive committee of the World Council of Churches (WCC) meeting in Geneva, Switzerland, 13-18 November 2015, welcomes the peaceful election process recently concluded in Myanmar.

During the centenary year of the Armenian genocide by the Ottoman Empire, the executive committee of the WCC is meeting in this country on 8-13 June 2015, hosted by the Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin, to honour the martyrs and victims of the genocide.

Reaction to the decision of the Grand Jury not to indict in the case of the killing of Michael Brown

Minute on South Sudan adopted by the WCC Executive Committee during its meeting from 7 to 12 February 2014 in Bossey and Geneva, Switzerland.

Adopted by the WCC 10th Assembly as part of the Report of the Public Issues Committee.

The Minute on the 100th Anniversary of the Armenian Genocide was adopted by the WCC 10th Assembly as part of the Report of the Public Issues Committee.

Adopted by the WCC 10th Assembly as part of the Report of the Public Issues Committee.

Adopted by the WCC 10th Assembly as part of the Report of the Public Issues Committee.

Devotional song from Palestine; English: Andrew Donaldson.

approved by the WCC Central Committee, meeting in Geneva 16-22 February 2011

The executive committee of the World Council of Churches, meeting in Etchmiadzin, Armenia, 25-28 September, 2007, stated: In repeated statements over many years, the World Council of Churches has called for governments to exercise their responsibilities for bringing peace with justice to the peoples of the Middle East. Yet today - from Iraq to Lebanon to Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories - unresolved conflicts are scarring the region. The lives of countless women, children and men are shattered, families are torn apart, and whole communities are held hostage to injustice and violence.

WCC Central Committee, Geneva, 30 August-6 September 2006