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May 2004

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23 April 2004

"We did not do enough in time" WCC/CCIA director looks at organization's role during Rwanda genocide

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19 April 2004

Lecture - Speech

Religion and Ethnicity: Gift from God or Source of Conflict?

16 April 2004

WCC to encourage non-nuclear NATO states to play more pro-active role on nuclear disarmament, remove nuclear weapons from their territories

A World Council of Churches (WCC) delegation will meet ministers and official government representatives of three non-nuclear NATO states this week. The purpose of the meetings is to ask these states to take a more pro-active role within the organization to fulfill nuclear disarmament obligations undertaken in the framework of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT).

29 March 2004

Comments on the killing of Sheikh Ahmad Yassin

25 March 2004

Message

Letter to Madam Justice Louise Arbour on the occasion of her appointment

03 March 2004

"Another world is possible. Let us build it!" WSF delegates attend Week of Prayer for Christian Unity church service in Mumbai

By Binu Alex

21 January 2004

Religious Freedom and Liberty in the Emerging Context

18 December 2003

Advocacy report

The collaboration of the WCC with International Governmental Institutions

22 November 2003

Church Centre for the United Nations: celebrating 40 years of service

by Tracy Early

05 November 2003

Report

Activities Report

The activities report presented before the WCC Central Committee, 2003

03 September 2003

Report

Second report of the public issues committee

Second report of the public issues committee presented to the Central Committee, 2003

02 September 2003

Minute on the Occupied Palestinian Territories

02 September 2003

Minute on the Responsibility to Protect: Ethical and Theological Reflections

02 September 2003

Report

Second Report of the Programme Committee

Second Report of the Programme Committee addresses the issues of the programmatic work and the special commission and relocation of regional desks

02 September 2003

The Responsibility to Protect: Ethical and Theological Reflections

A report to the WCC Central Committee meeting in 2003, from the Commission of the Churches on International Affairs (CCIA) on the follow-up of the 2001 WCC Central Committee document "The protection of endangered populations in situations of armed violence"

02 September 2003

WCC calls for UN lead role in Iraq

The Central Committee of the World Council of Churches has issued a comprehensive statement in the aftermath of the Iraq war, calling for the United Nations to be allowed to work with Iraqis to form a representative, participatory government free of external control.

01 September 2003

"Palestinian towns have become large prisons" WCC staff say

18 August 2003

World Council of Churches assessment of the 'Road Map'

While welcoming the Middle East Road Map to peace, some reservations were expressed by Peter Weiderud, Director of the WCC's Commission of Churches on International Affairs (CCIA), in an assessment distributed today to CCIA members and WCC networks. Weiderud highlights that the Road Map includes "a number of encouraging elements" but "it is far from ideal", and details some of the "vague and disturbing elements in it, as well as significant gaps that need clarification". Weiderud also welcomes the initiative from UN secretary general Kofi Annan to post a peacekeeping force in the area, but he stresses that UN should have "a more active and comprehensive role (â¦) in the entire process of conflict resolution and not just in peacekeeping".

17 July 2003