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Statement by WCC Executive Committee, November 2018

Statement by WCC Executive Committee, November 2018

Statement by WCC Executive Committee, November 2018

Address to the Swedish Ecumenical Weekend, Uppsala, Sweden, 4 November 2018

Speech by WCC president for Europe, Archbishop emeritus Dr Anders Wejryd

Speech of the WCC general secretary Rev. Dr Olav Fykse Tveit at the Community of Sant'Egidio in Bologna, Italy

World Council of Churches - World Communion of Reformed Churches - Council for World Mission - Lutheran World Federation message on the occasion of the 3rd United Nations (UN) Financing for Development Forum. New York, 23-26 April 2018

Steve de Gruchy Memorial Lecture by WCC deputy general secretary Prof. Dr Isabel Apawo Phiri. Rodebosch United Church, Cape Town, South Africa. By Prof. Dr Isabel Apawo Phiri (24 April 2018)

The several climatic events in the Book of Jonah present all environmental concerns: the sea calming down (1:15), making a plant grow (4:6), and the sending of a worm (4:7), and all play a particular role in God’s plan. They are used in the text as divine emissaries, human begin is the only one to oppose God’s will in these dramatic scenes. The ecological problem and the attributes associated with the creatures remain a fundamental issue from Jonah to our current daily reality. The worm, a lowly creature, is elevated as well as the ephemeral plant. Accordingly, Jonah has to learn that the plant is appointed by God. The ecological reading on the Book of Jonah invites us to the Pilgrimage of Justice and Peace in relation to the ecological justice.

The second reflection of the Seven Weeks for Water is by Rev. Gloria Ulloa, an ordained priest of the  Presbyterian Church of Colombia and the president of the World Council of Churches, Latin American region.  In the following reflection she relates her own experiences of growing up in her village by the riverside.  She laments the current situation of water in the Latin American region and challenges the churches to address this water crisis to usher fullness of life among us.

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.

Speach of the World Council of Churches (WCC) president for Europe Anders Wejryd in Utrecht, Netherlands, congratulating the Old Catholic Church and the Church of Sweden on entering into a communion.

Participant guidelines of the Ecumenical School on Governance, Economics and Management (GEM) for an Economy of Life Mexico City, Mexico, 19 August – 31 August 2018.

Entitled “To Bonn and Beyond: Act Now with Justice and Peace”, the statement was read by Frances Namoumou, representing the WCC and the Pacific Conference of Churches, to the plenary of the High Level Ministerial Segment of the 23rd Session of the Conference of the Parties (COP23), in Bonn, Germany, where the United Nations Climate Change Conference took place under the presidency of Fiji.

As the world convenes in Bonn, Germany for the 23rd Conference of Parties (COP23) of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, the Methodist Church in Fiji issued a statement calling for Methodists around the world to join in prayer for the country’s leadership and for the talanoa process of negotiations which will take place at COP23.

Tahiti, 29 July 2017
Address to the Synod of the Maohi Protestant Church
Rev. Dr Olav Fykse Tveit, General Secretary WCC

Lecture by the WCC general secretary Rev. Dr Olav Fykse Tveit at the Ev. Akademie Hofgeismar in Germany.

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.”

Rev. Dr Olav Fykse Tveit

General Secretary

World Council of Churches

Sermon at the ecumenical worship and prayer

Harare, Zimbabwe, 19 May, 2017

Rev. Dr Olav Fykse Tveit

General Secretary

World Council of Churches

Sermon at the ecumenical worship and prayer

Harare, Zimbabwe, 19 May, 2017