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How to become a Just Peace Church – Social Change and the Renewal of the Churches through the Spirit of a Just Peace. By Dr Agnes Abuom, moderator of the WCC Central Committee.

The WCC Central Committee welcomes the news of the historic bilateral ceasefire agreement concluded by the government of Colombia and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia

WCC) general secretary Rev. Dr Olav Fykse Tveit was one of the keynote speakers along with government representatives and church leaders at the commemoration of the Soweto Uprising.

Statement by the participants of the consultation organized by the WCC and the South African Council of Churches.

Welcome message by Dr Isabel Apawo Phiri, WCC associate general secretary for Public Witness and Diakonia, at the consultation organized by the WCC and the South African Council of Churches.

Message of the presidents of the World Council of Churches at Pentecost 2016

Speech for the public event in Lengerich, Germany, delivered by Rev. Dr Olav Fykse Tveit, general secretary of the WCC.

Statement by WCC general secretary Rev. Dr Olav Fykse Tveit on the announcement of an agreement between the Colombian government and the FARC revolutionary force .

Sermon by Rev. Dr Olav Fykse Tveit, WCC general secretary
6 September, 2015, Bogota, Colombia, at the ecumenical prayer service organized by the Presbyterian Church of Colombia.

Speech delivered by Rev. Dr Olav Fykse Tveit, WCC general secretary on 5 September at a Consultation on Climate Justice organized by the Latin American Council of Churches (CLAI) in Barranquilla, Colombia.

Today, the Independent Commission for the Reform of International Corporate Taxation (ICRICT) launched a global declaration

Message of the presidents of the World Council of Churches at Pentecost 2015

The fifth biblical reflection of the Seven Weeks for Water 2015 is by Veronica Flachier, a journalist and theologian from Ecuador. She is a representative of the CLAI (Latin American Council of Churches) to the International Reference Group of the Ecumenical Water Network of the WCC and currently one of the co-chairs. In this reflection, she highlights that the water crisis we currently experience has been determined by the ambition of certain powerful corporations that formulate the rules in a world that is regulated by the logic of the consumer driven market, where not only water is a commodity, but so is the entirety of nature and even the human beings. Only by re-ordering the quality of the relationships in the frame of ethics and justice, can we dream of re-ordering our Pachamama – the mother earth.

Letter to the Colombian president Juan Manuel Santos expressing concern over protection of human rights defenders

Communique from seminars and workshops held between 6 to 9 September by Coalition EDAN-MUR, representing Ecumenical Disability Advocates Network in Latin America and Urban and Rural Mission (MUR) of Peru, in Lima and Chiclayo.

Message of the presidents of the World Council of Churches at Pentecost 2014

“This long-overdue act of international governance means that people in many parts of the world who live in fear for their lives will eventually be safer,” the Rev. Dr Olav Fykse Tveit said, commenting on the Arms Trade Treaty adopted on 2 April 2013, voted by 155 countries at the United Nations in New York, United States.

The proposal by the Officers, in its meeting in December 2012, for a statement by the executive committee on Peace and Human Security in Latin America was discussed by the Public Issues Sub-Committee (PIC) and the PIC decided to propose the statement below for action by the executive committee.

Commission of the Churches on International Affairs (CCIA) of the World Council of Churches ( WCC)
‘Peace and Human Security in Latin America: Ecumenical Responses’
Communiqué from Antigua, Guatemala, 2nd December 2012