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The Ecumenical Accompaniment Programme in Palestine and Israel (EAPPI) enters its second year of operations by welcoming 25 new accompaniers, the largest group since the project started in August 2002. Three have also stayed on from the previous group, bringing the total number of accompaniers on the ground to 28.

By Mark Woods *

Alexander Belopopsky

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WCC and Roman Catholic representatives to meet

Alexander Belopopsky from the UK was appointed coordinator of the WCC Public Information team by the WCC officers meeting in November 2003. Belopopsky, a lay member of the Orthodox Church (Ecumenical Patriarchate), has been responsible for the WCC Europe Desk since February 1996, and will move into his new position at the beginning of 2004. He replaces Sara Speicher from the USA, who moved to the UK end-November after 7 years with the Council. Before coming to the WCC, Belopopsky served as secretary-general of SYNDESMOS, the World Fellowship of Orthodox Youth. He has a degree in modern history from the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, France.

An Aurès Cedar, representing over one million trees planted in an ecumenical re-forestation effort following the Algerian fight for independence from France, will be the center of a commemorative ceremony taking place on

WCC delegation attends UN conference on climate change

Following an invitation from the public information team of the World Council of Churches (WCC), Henri Tincq, who has been in charge of religious news at the prestigious French daily "Le Monde" since 1985, interviewed Rev. Dr Konrad Raiser. The interview took place in Geneva, on Wednesday, 29 October 2003, as Raiser approached the end of his term as general secretary of WCC. This interview can be freely reproduced. A high-resolution photograph is also available free of charge (see below).

Cf. WCC Press Release PR-03-27 of 11 August 2003

The World Council of Churches' Commission on Faith and Order is preparing itself "to make its call to visible unity more audible to the churches".

Cf. WCC Press Release PR-03-21, 2 June 2003

The future of multi-lateralism and the international order, Iraq, the Middle East, and the role of the churches will be the focus of a 5 June meeting in Paris of representatives of churches in France and staff and members of the World Council of Churches' Commission of the Churches on International Affairs (WCC/CCIA). The participants will also be received by the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

World Council of Churches (WCC) general secretary Rev. Dr Konrad Raiser has given his "unreserved support" to a message from local Swiss and French church leaders to the G8 presidents and prime ministers meeting in Evian, France from 1-3 June 2003. The WCC message of support expressed hope that the summit would recognize the need to build "a world that is genuinely more responsible and more in solidarity, more secure and more democratic".