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Joint call on Zimbabwean leaders

15 November 2008

Interview

In the latest James Bond movie, which hit the screens in Europe last week, the villain is seeking to control a country's water supply. Photo: Flickr

Securing water for all: a job for heroes with a licence to pray?

World cinema's most famous spy is back and this time he fights a villain trying to control strategic water resources in a developing country. Is the script of the latest James Bond movie too far fetched a fictional plot?

11 November 2008

Address by Catholicos Aram I: Living as a community with Islam

This is the text of a keynote lecture delivered by His Holiness Catholicos Aram I at an ecumenical consultation, organized by the World Council of Churches, together with Secretaries of Christian World Communions 18-20 October 2008, Geneva, Switzerland.

18 October 2008

Member church

AGAPE Consultation: Guatemala Declaration

10 October 2008

AGAPE Consultation: Guatemala womens' statement

07 October 2008

AGAPE Consultation: Guatemala youth statement

07 October 2008

Statement on humanitarian crisis in Sri Lanka

This statement on the humanitarian crisis in Sri Lanka caused by the 25-year civil war was reviewed and approved by the WCC executive committee in Luebeck, September 2008.

26 September 2008

Executive committee

Statement on Universal Declaration of Human Rights

This statement recognizing the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights was approved by consensus by the WCC executive committee in Luebeck, September 2008.

26 September 2008

Executive committee

Peace and Peacemaking as an Interfaith and Ecumenical Vocation - An Orthodox View

By Rev. Dr Emmanuel Clapsis, Holy Cross – Greek Orthodox School of Theology, Boston, USA

13 September 2008

WCC Programmes

Joint Global Ecumenical Leaders Statement on the Zimbabwe Political Parties Pact

24 July 2008

Metropolitan Emmanuel of France's address to the World Conference on Dialogue

Madrid, Spain

18 July 2008

WCC Programmes

News

WCC general secretary Samuel Kobia with Sheikh Mohammad Sayyed Tantawy.

Church unity and interreligious dialogue discussed at WCC visit to Egypt

Challenges facing Christians today are too strong for a divided church, said World Council of Churches (WCC) general secretary Rev. Dr Samuel Kobia in Egypt recently as he called for church unity both locally and globally. Kobia was speaking during a 16-21 June visit to WCC member churches in the country.

26 June 2008

On xenophobic violence in South Africa

05 June 2008

General Secretary

Report

Report on the election in Zimbabwe by the WCC/AACC observer mission

21 April 2008

News

Young Iraqi refugees playing soccer in a Damascus neighbourhood. Photo © UNHCR/J.Wreford/January 2007

Migration: Welcoming the stranger is not optional, says WCC

"Migration is a fact of life. It is as much an instinct to survive as it is an inevitable consequence of globalization. We can neither turn our backs on it, nor control it," declared in a statement participants at a 15-16 April Public Hearing on Migration and the Changing Ecclesial Landscape in Beirut, Lebanon. "Migrants are not commodities, illegal aliens or mere victims, they are human beings."

17 April 2008

The Changing Ecclesial Context: Impact of Migration on Living Together

16 April 2008

WCC Programmes

At the Sudan Church Leaders Conference

by Rev. Dr Samuel Kobia

02 April 2008

General Secretary

SCC statement on the current situation in Sudan

Statement presented by the Sudanese Council of Churches to the international ecumenical delegation led by WCC general secretary Rev. Dr Samuel Kobia, visiting Sudan from 26 March to 2 April 2008.

26 March 2008

Homily by the Ecumenical Patriarch H.A.H. Bartholomew

20 February 2008