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In a letter to the President of the Philippines Benigno S. Aquino III, WCC general secretary Rev. Dr Olav Fykse Tveit expressed appreciation for the release of forty-three health professionals and community health workers who were illegally arrested and had been imprisoned since 6 February 2010.

A team of church representatives from Africa, Asia, Europe and North America made this statement at the end of a solidarity visit to churches, ecumenical organizations and civil society organizations in the Philippines.

Report of the Indigenous Theologians meeting in Geneva, October 2009

At the invitation of the National Council of Churches of Australia and the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Ecumenical Commission to the WCC a team of Indigenous and non-Indigenous Christians have come as a Living Letter to the Aboriginal Peoples of the Northern Territory in Australia.

Statement on free and fair elections in Myanmar if the Executive Committee of the World Council of Churches

Statement on the situation in Nigeria of the Executive Committee of the Word Council of Churches

Letter by WCC general secretary Tveit to the president of Pakistan following the shooting and killing of two Christians in Pakistan who were in court on accusations related to the blasphemy law. The same letter was sent to the prime minister.

Thematic Address presented at the 13th Assembly of the Christian Conference of Asia (CCA) in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, by WCC general secretary Rev. Dr Olav Fykse Tveit on 15 April 2010.

"The work of the churches in the DRC to alleviate the humanitarian crisis, promote a peaceful resolution to the conflict and advocate for an end to the violations of human rights, is admirable," WCC Rev. Dr Olav Fykse Tveit wrote in a message delivered to church leaders and government representatives at a workshop on human rights in the Democratic Republic of Congo on 13 April 2010.

In 1977 at a meeting in Chiang Mai, Thailand a group of Christians representing many different ecclesiastical traditions drew up Guidelines on Dialogue. These guidelines serve as the basis of interreligious dialogue sponsored by the WCC and many churches around the world.

This is the dream we carry through the world
that something fantastic will happen
that it has to happen
that time will open by itself

A group of Palestinian Christians representing a variety of churches and church-related organizations have issued this animated and prayerful call for an end to occupation of Palestine by Israel on 11 December 2009.

Communiqué by the Sudan Ecumenical Forum General Assembly, Juba 9 – 11 November 2009

Report of a continuing conversation among theologians representing the concerns of people living with disabilities, Indigenous Peoples, Dalits and those struggling against racism, on churches becoming and effecting just and inclusive communities, August 2008.

Statement from the Asia-Pacific Women's Hearing on Poverty, Wealth and Ecology in Chiang Mai, Thailand, 02-03 November 2009.

Speech by Olav Fykse Tveit at a panel of the conference "Initiative of the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques on dialogue and its impact in disseminating human values" organized by the general secretariat of the Muslim World League.