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Called to be the One Church - Presentation by Metropolitan Gennadios of Sassima

09 October 2009

Called to be the One Church - Presentation by Prof. Maake Masango

Prof. Maake J. Masango addresses the main theme of the Faith and Order Plenary Commission meeting, Called to be the One Church, as a witness of the union of Presbyterian Churches in the context of apartheid.

09 October 2009

Called to be the One Church - Presentation by Dr Minna Hietamäki

Dr Minna Hietamäki addresses the main theme of the Faith and Order Plenary Commission meeting, Called to be the One Church, from the perspective of a younger Lutheran theologian from Finland.

09 October 2009

Report of the 2009 plenary commission meeting

In the spirit of the 2006 WCC Assembly's statement on ecclesiology, «Called to be the One Church», the 120 members of the Commission on Faith and Order, along with 37 guests, consultants and younger theologians gathered on the island of Crete in Greece, 7-13 October 2009.

09 October 2009

Director's report

Report of the WCC director of Faith and Order Canon Dr John Gibaut

09 October 2009

Mary Tanner, WCC president from Europe and a former moderator of the World Council of Churches (WCC) Faith and Order Commission.

Faith and Order today: Mary Tanner on miracles of the ecumenical movement

by Theodore Gill (*)

09 October 2009

Opening address by the Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I

Opening address to the Plenary of the WCC Commission on Faith and Order

07 October 2009

Member church

Sermon

Sermon by WCC general secretary Kobia

Sermon by WCC general secretary Rev. Dr Samuel Kobia at the Opening Prayer of the Faith and Order Plenary Commission meeting, 7 October 2009, Crete, Greece.

07 October 2009

General Secretary

Patriarch Bartholomew I held the opening address at the meeting of the Faith and Order Plenary Commission in Crete.

One foot in the past and one in the future

Because unity is finally a gift of God, "it demands a profound sense of humility and not any prideful insistence." With this call to the "never-ending search" for unity of the church, which "is also an ever-unfolding journey", Patriarch Bartholomew I opened the 7-14 October meeting of the Faith and Order Plenary Commission, in Kolympari, Crete, Greece.

07 October 2009

Orthodox Participation in the World Council of Churches

Report of the Steering Committee of the Special Commission on Orthodox Participation in the World Council of Churches presented before the WCC Central Committee, 2003

02 September 2009

Central Committee

Letter

Policy Reference Committee I - Proposed Annotated Agenda

The Policy Reference Committee I deals with certain matters as the reports of the Moderator, the General Secretary and the Officers of the Central Committee and the assembly theme.

02 September 2009

Central Committee

Discovering the invitation/decalogue sculpture was part of the Plenary on Church and Society.

Churches must be "salt of the earth"

How does the church interact with a rapidly changing society? On 31 August, members of the World Council of Churches Central Committee spent much of the morning discussing this question in a pair of plenary sessions in Geneva.

31 August 2009

Background document

What is Faith and Order? (Mary Tanner)

Tanner discusses Faith and Order as a movement, as a Commission, as an agenda, as a method, and as a commitment to the future.

11 August 2009

Ecclesial and Social Visions of Indigenous Peoples Consultation Report

Around 35 theologians and leaders representing communities, churches and organizations of indigenous peoples in 16 countries in many parts of the world attended a consultation from 21-26 October, 2008 in Baguio City, Philippines. This consultation was called in response to a proposal by the Ninth General Assembly of the WCC to facilitate the theological contributions of indigenous peoples to enrich the life and work of the WCC. In solidarity with the struggles of the largest indigenous peoples' population in Asia, Baguio City in the Philippines was chosen as the context for this theological conversation.

24 June 2009

WCC Programmes

WCC general secretary Rev. Dr Samuel Kobia with delegates at the Fourth Preconciliar Panorthodox Conference. Photo: Diacre Alexandre Sadkowski

The Fourth Panorthodox Preconciliar Conference met in Chambésy, Geneva

In brief comments to the Fourth Preconciliar Panorthodox Conference which met recently at the Orthodox Centre of ChambÃ©sy, near Geneva, the WCC general secretary, Rev. Dr Samuel Kobia, assured the participants that the WCC and its member churches are accompanying them in their work in thoughts and prayers, "knowing the importance of the decisions that the conference was preparing."

16 June 2009

Message

A Cloud of Witnesses: message to the churches from a symposium in Bose

02 November 2008

Ecumenical movement

Back row left to right: Rev Canon Dr. J. Gibaut, Dr. N. Legesse, Rev. G. McGeoch, Rev. Archpriest M. Gundyaev, Rev. Dr. S. Watkins, Rev. Archpriest V. Perisic, Bishop Dr. M. Hein, Mr. G. Lemopoulos. Front row left to right: Rev R. Degenhard, Rev. S. Udodesku, Dr. M. Nascimento Cunha, Dr. A. Abuom, Metropolitan A. Bishoy, Metropolitan Prof. Dr. G. of Sassima, the Most Rev. B. Ntahoturi, Mrs. A. Glynn-Mackoul

Churches' feedback greatly needed, committee says

A key committee of the World Council of Churches (WCC) is calling ecumenical partners, including its 349 member churches, for more feedback on two crucial matters of concern facing the church and the WCC.

18 July 2008

Winning essays on prospects for ecumenism: "gifts of inspiration and leadership"

Ideas for "bringing unity down to earth", "communicative action" and a "theology of the wilderness" were among the winning entries submitted for an essay contest on Prospects for Ecumenism in the 21st Century. The winners, two women and four men, come from Africa, Asia, Europe and North America.

01 July 2008

Address to the General Synod of the Protestant Church in the Netherlands

By Rev. Dr Samuel Kobia

11 April 2008

General Secretary