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Message of Dr Agnes Abuom, Moderator of the WCC central committee for the Peace walk in Amsterdam, 23 August 2018

Message from the Ecumenical Forum for Peace, Reunification & Development Cooperation on the Korean Peninsula 22-23 June 2018, Geneva, Switzerland.

The central committee of the World Council of Churches (WCC), meeting in Geneva, Switzerland, on 15-21 June 2018, is deeply concerned by recent developments in Gaza and Jerusalem, and the on-going struggle of the Christians of the Holy Land.

Greetings to the Central Committee of the World Council of Churches from the general secretary of the National Council of Churches in Korea (NCCK) on the occasion of the 70th anniversary of the WCC

Message of the presidents of the World Council of Churches at Pentecost 2018

A six-person international ecumenical delegation, comprised of representatives of the World Council of Churches (WCC) and the World Communion of Reformed Churches (WCRC) and led by WCC general secretary Rev. Dr Olav Fykse Tveit and WCRC general secretary Rev. Dr Chris Ferguson, visited Pyongyang on 3-7 May, at the invitation of the Korean Christian Federation (KCF) of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK).

Statement of the Rev. Dr Olav Fykse Tveit, general secretary of the World Council of Churches on Korean Peninsula

Revd Christoph Anders, Member of the Commission on World Mission and Evangelism,
Director of the Evangelisches Missionswerk

Participants of the “International Conference in Celebration of the 30th Anniversary of the 88 Declaration” organized by the National Council of Churches in Korea (NCCK) issued a communique that welcomes the new steps toward dialogue as an historic opportunity.

The 26-27 February 2018 conference was organized by the Vienna-based International Dialogue Centre (KAICIID).

Intervention of His Holiness Aram I on the first day of the International Conference in Support of Jerusalem, organized by Al-Azhar, Cairo, Egypt (17-18 January 2018).

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

Address of the WCC president for Europe, archbishop emeritus Dr Anders Wejryd at the conference organized by the World Council of Churches (WCC) and hosted by the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Iceland under the theme “Just Peace with Earth” held in Reykjavik, Finland, Oct. 13-15 2017.

Inaugural Address of the WCC General Secretary, Rev. Dr Olav Fykse Tveit, during the Inaugural Service of the 16th Synod Meeting of the Church of North India, New Delhi.

Sermon given by WCC general secretary Rev. Dr Olav Fykse Tveit on 27 September 2017, as Finn Church Aid celebrate 70 years.

Letter of Rev. Dr Olav Fykse Tveit, WCC general secretary to the Korean Christian Federation, the National Council of Churches in Korea and WCC member churches in Republic of Korea

The World Council of Churches (WCC) believes that the situation on the Korean peninsula fully warrants the serious and sustained attention of the international community. There is no other geographic context in which the risk of regionally and globally catastrophic conflict is greater, and no point in recent history when tensions in the region have been higher. It is of critical and urgent necessity that the risks of conflict be reduced, not heightened.

This year, 2017, marks several historic anniversaries of great importance to the history and development of the situation in Israel and Palestine and to the ecumenical community’s response to this situation – including 100 years since the Balfour Declaration, 50 years since the Six Day War of 1967, and 10 years since the 2007 WCC International Peace Conference "Churches together for Peace and Justice in the Middle East" in Amman, Jordan.