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À Tonga, on voit beaucoup d’eau – mais il n’y en a pas nécessairement beaucoup que l’on puisse utiliser. Mele’ana Puloka, membre de l’Église wesleyenne libre des Tonga, est le membre du Collège présidentiel du Conseil œcuménique des Églises pour le Pacifique; elle vit sur ces îles qui comptent au total quelque 106 000 habitants.

Two major crises have marked the months since the WCC called Katalina Tahaafe-Williams to work in Geneva on its migration, indigenous, and multicultural ministry programmes. When she took up the job in October, the European refugee crisis was in full flow. Then in November, terrorists attacked Paris.

The WCC general secretary, Rev. Dr Olav Fykse Tveit, offered condolences on the death of Fr Siketi Tonga, general secretary of the Tonga National Council of Churches. A priest with the Anglican Church, Tonga passed away last week and was laid to rest in Nuku’alofa on Saturday, 12 April.

Acht neue Präsidenten hat die Vollversammlung des Ökumenischen Rates der Kirchen (ÖRK) am Montag, 4. November 2013, in Busan (Südkorea) in einer nichtöffentlichen Sitzung gewählt.

The 10th Assembly of the World Council of Churches elected eight new presidents today during a closed session at its proceedings in Busan, Republic of Korea.