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The World Council of Churches (WCC) convened an ecumenical roundtable consultation on the situation in Ukraine, which took place 30 March at the Bossey Ecumenical Institute.

Christmas Statement, signed by European church leaders – issued jointly by the Churches’ Commission for Migrants and the Conference of European Churches.

Predigt des ÖRK-Generalsekretärs Olav Fykse Tveit im Ulmer Münster

Sermon by Rev. Dr Olav Fykse Tveit, WCC general scretary, at the closing celebration of the Danube Wave of Peace in Ulm, Germany.

New members of the Central and Executive Committee following the resignation of prior members. List was presented at the WCC Central Committee, 2003

The following report was presented to and received by the Assembly. Its resolutions were proposed by the Public Issues Committee and approved by the Assembly through consensus. Dissent expressed by Assembly delegates is recorded as endnotes.

"Final report of the Special Commission on Orthodox participation in the WCC" : The 60-member Special Commission was created by the WCC's eighth assembly in 1998 in response to mainly Orthodox concerns about participation in the Council. Composed of an equal number of representatives from Orthodox churches and from the other churches belonging to the WCC, the Commission submitted its final report to the central committee in September 2002.

<< Rapport final de la Commission spéciale sur la participation des orthodoxes au COE >> : la Commission spéciale, qui compte 60 membres, a été créée en 1998 par la Huitième Assemblée du COE, en réponse à des préoccupations formulées principalement par les orthodoxes à propos de la participation au Conseil. Composée d'un nombre égal de représentants des Eglises orthodoxes et des autres Eglises appartenant au COE, la Commission a soumis son rapport final au Comité central en septembre 2002.

Thanks to the great arc of the Carpathian Mountains, the Danube and the Black Sea, Romania is easy to find on any map. Culturally speaking it lies at the cross-roads between eastern and western Europe. Ninety-nine percent of its population of just over 22 million people call themselves Christian. As regards other communities of faith, there are 9,000 Jews and 56,000 Muslims. A few thousand people declare themselves to be atheists or of no faith.