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Who on earth decided in June 1920 in a conference held in Crans, near Geneva, that the following year at Lake Mohonk, New York, an International Missionary Council would be established and give an enormous institutional impulse to the emerging ecumenical movement?

Expressing "alarm and concern" the World Council of Churches (WCC) has presented a formal protest to the Israeli ambassador in Switzerland over two recent incidents involving violence by Israeli settlers against Christian volunteers participating in the Ecumenical Accompaniment Programme in Palestine and Israel (EAPPI).

In einem formellen Protestschreiben an den Botschafter Israels in der Schweiz hat der Ökumenische Rat der Kirchen (ÖRK) seine "Sorge und Beunruhigung" über zwei Vorfälle zum Ausdruck gebracht, bei denen es unlängst zu Gewalttätigkeiten israelischer Siedler gegen christliche Mitarbeiter/innen des Ökumenischen Begleitprogramms in Palästina und Israel (EAPPI) gekommen war.

The first meeting of the Faith and Order Commission of the World Council of Churches (WCC), held in Lausanne on 3 August 1927, had very high hopes. Participants believed that the goal of visible unity of the churches was really attainable.