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In a message to the World Economic Forum, World Council of Churches general secretary Rev. Dr Olav Fykse Tveit said he can think of no greater antithesis to a vision of shared life and responsibility than the continued existence of and political and social support for nuclear weapons.

Bible Study 3, "Transforming the World: Equipping Disciples", 2 Corinthians 5:11-21

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

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

"The quest for unity in the practice of the WCC", report of the WCC general secretary to the WCC executive committee meeting in Amman, Jordan, November 2017

Communiqué by the Joint Working Group between the World Council of Churches and the Roman Catholic Church

Message of the WCC Commission of the Churches on International Affairs on the nuclear weapon test by North 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.

Reformation in our world today: Ecumenical Conversation

Dr Agnes Abuom

Moderator of the World Council of Churches Central Committee

Talking Points shared at a seminar during St Olav’s Festival in July 2017

Open letter from The National Coalition of Christian Organizations in Palestine to the World Council of Churches and the ecumenical movement.

The WCC leadership will bring the letter to the next meeting of its Executive Committee in November 2017 in Amman, Jordan. The WCC also invited its members churches and partners worldwide to read and share the letter as a local voice from today’s Palestine.

In his report to the Executive Committee, WCC general secretary Rev. Dr Olav Fykse Tveit noted that we are living in a time when the purpose and the objectives of the WCC are highly relevant.

Based on these realities, there is a need for a new search for unity, he said. “Through the many dimensions of its work, the WCC contributes to the unity of the church, and the unity that the WCC is able to express, in turn, contributes to the unity of humankind.”

Address of His-All Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew at the Al-Azhar and Muslim Council of Elders' Global Peace Conference, 28 April 2017.

Address by World Council of Churches general secretary Rev. Dr Olav Fykse Tveit, at Al Azhar University in Cairo, Egypt, 26 April 2017.

Address of H.A.H. Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew, at the World Council of Churches

Greeting from Patriarch Matthias I, at Ecumenical Centre, Geneva, 10 February 2017

List of speakers and topics presented at the Third Annual Symposium on the Role of Religion and Faith-Based Organizations in International Affairs. 23 January 2017, United Nations secretariat, New York.

As part of an ongoing, multiyear project called “Walking Together,” an international and interreligious group met in Nicosia, Cyprus, from 6-8 December to explore different facets of the theme “Pilgrimage of Justice and Peace,” which undergirds the World Council of Churches' programmatic focus.

Communique from the International Ecumenical Conference on a Peace Treaty for the Korean Peninsula, Hong Kong SAR, 14-16 November 2016.

Speech by WCC general secretary Rev. Dr Olav Fykse Tveit on 27 October 2016, at the Peterskirche, the University Church of Heidelberg.