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In a speech before the Anglican Bishops’ Conference of Southern Africa, WCC moderator Bishop Dr Heinrich Bedford-Strohm reflected on “Salt of the earth and light of the world: Unity of the church as a sign for unity in the world.”

1. There is no other space like Faith and Order. There are many spaces and places where one can discuss theology, but this one is very unique. And truly remarkable.

Statement on the Unregulated Development of Artificial Intelligence by the WCC central committee, Geneva, Switzerland, 21-27 June 2023.

Report of the WCC general secretary Rev. Prof. Dr Jerry Pillay to the WCC Central Committee meeting in Geneva, Switzerland, 21 - 27 June 2023.

On 23 February 2023, at a special event at the University of Fribourg honoring his work, former acting general secretary of the World Council of Churches, Rev. Prof. Dr Ioan Sauca, delivered a lecture exploring the question: “What future for the ecumenical movement?”

Message of the conference "Christian Perspectives on Human Dignity and Human Rights", organised jointly by WCC, UEM and EKD, gathering 47 participants from 22 countries in Wuppertal (Germany) and online from 9 to 12 April 2022.

The study paper has been produced by the commission’s Working Group on Transforming Discipleship, which has been engaged since 2019 in a study process on the document “Arusha call to discipleship" in affirmation of the key place that discipleship holds across all levels of ecumenical work or denominational church work.

The paper "Converting Discipleship: Dissidence and Metanoia” aspires to move churches towards a transformation effected through discipleship. Addressing churches and communities locally, the document aims to inspire them to re-examine and finally re-shape their missional commitment.

Speech by the WCC Interim General Secretary Rev. Prof. Dr Ioan Sauca to Forum Ökumene, DiMoe, EMS, KASA - Stuttgart, 18.10.2020

"Ut Unum Sint: Between Winter and Spring, Reality and Prophecy, 1995 – 2020", Lecture by Rev. Dr Olav Fykse Tveit, WCC General Secretary, at the Institute for Ecumenical Studies, St. Thomas Aquinas Pontifical University (Angelicum), 12 December 2019

Report of the WCC General Secretary Rev. Dr Olav Fykse Tveit to the WCC Executive Committee Meeting in Bossey, May 22-28, 2019.

Going the Second Mile: A message of the 8th consultation of United and Uniting Churches, Johannesburg, 29 October – 5 November 2008

What Does Mutual Accountability Mean

for Christians and the Christian Life?

Olav Fykse Tveit

General Secretary, World Council of Churches

Centro Pro Unione, 15 November 2018

Dr. Agnes Abuom, moderator of the World Council of Churches Central Committee, offered a speech entitled “A Clarion Christian Call to Justice and Peace: Ending Global Inequality and Climate injustice” at the Justice Conference in Oslo, Norway on 9 November.

Address of Baldwin Sjollema, the first director of the PCR to the WCC Central Committee 2018

Plenary presentation delivered by Prof. Isabel Apawo Phiri at the 11th All Africa Conference of Churches Assembly Kigali, Rwanda

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)

"Theological Education in the Context of Global Christianity" - Public lecture by Prof. Dr Rudolf von Sinner, presented at the Ecumenical Center, Visser´t Hooft Hall, Friday, 13 April, 11-12.30hs.

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.”

Speech by Ahmed al-Tayyeb, Grand Imam of Al-Azhar, at the Ecumenical Institute in Bossey on 1 October 2016.

Reflection during the Morning Prayer in the Ecumenical Centre, Geneva, 30 May 2016, by Rev. Dr Hielke Wolters, associate general secretary, WCC.