The World Council of Churches (WCC) announced plans today to reorganize its Geneva- and New York-based staff around the five "historic" themes of the Council's work. The five themes are:
Thirty-seven church leaders from the United States, United Kingdom and Canada have called upon the US and British governments to use restraint in âthe apparent drift towards military confrontation in Iraqâ.
The following article by Teresa Joan White is the entry on diakonia from the revised edition of the Dictionary of the Ecumenical Movement published jointly by the World Council of Churches and the Wm. Eerdmans in 2002.