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The present document is the result of a study process started in response to strong suggestions made during the 2002 meeting of the WCC Central Committee to the three staff teams on Faith & Order, Interreligious Relations, Mission & Evangelism and their respective commissions or advisory bodies. The question of the theological approach to religious plurality had been on the agenda of the WCC many times, reaching some consensus in 1989 and in 1990. In recent years, it was felt that a new approach to this difficult and controversial issue was needed.

This paper offers reflections on mission as ministry of reconciliation from an ecumenical point of view and is shared by the Commission on World Mission and Evangelism (CWME) of the World Council of Churches as a document for reflection and study in preparation for the world mission conference in Athens in May 2005.

Leprésent document présente un certain nombre deréflexions, d'un point de vue oecuménique,sur la mission considéréecomme ministère de réconciliation ;c'est, pour la Commission de mission et d'évangélisation,du Conseil oecuménique des Eglises, un document deréflexion et d'étude qui s'inscrit dans lapréparation à la Conférence mondiale sur lamission et l'évangélisation qui doit avoir lieu àAthènes en mai 2005.

Nous avons le plaisir d'ajouter les textes ci-après à la série de documents préparatoires pour la Conférence mondiale d'Athènes sur la mission et l'évangélisation ; ils illustrent bien comment une communauté d'Eglises et d'organismes missionnaires a abordé les problèmes de la réconciliation et de la violence, de la guérison des mémoires, du témoignage commun et de l'édification de la paix.

We therefore request our congregations to work for a situation where the wrongdoing, which in some cases has only just come to light, is not repressed, and call upon them to seek solutions in cooperation with the responsible politicians and citizens' action groups.

This paper offers reflections on mission as reconciliation from an ecumenical point of view and is shared as part of the preparatory process for the 2005 Conference on World Mission and Evangelism (CWME). It is the result of a consultation attended by ten missiologists coming from five continents, rooted in their own contextual spiritualities and coming from various church traditions such as Orthodox, Protestant, Pentecostal and Roman Catholic. They worked hard to reach and express some common convictions. The statement was received as a study document by the CWME Conference Planning Committee (CPC) during its meeting near Athens in March 2004. The CPC decided to share it widely, in order to receive reactions, comments, critiques, suggestions for modification and improvement. The paper will then be presented, possibly in a revised version, to the WCC Commission on World Mission and Evangelism meeting later in autumn this year.

Le présent document propose des réflexions sur la mission, oeuvre de réconciliation, d'un point de vue oecuménique ; il est diffusé dans le cadre du processus de préparation à la Conférence mondiale sur la mission et l'évangélisation (CME) qui aura lieu en 2005.