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Metropolitan Dr Geevarghese Mor Coorilos (right) and Rev. Dr Jooesop Keum (left). Photo: Marianne Ejdersten/WCC

At mission conference, “let us tune ourselves to the rhythm of the Holy Spirit”

Metropolitan Dr Geevarghese Mor Coorilos is moderator of the WCC Commission on World Mission and Evangelism. He is also author of a “Welcome” in the Handbook for the upcoming WCC Conference on World Mission and Evangelism. Below, Metropolitan Coorilos is featured in an interview that reflects on how we can prepare our ecumenical heart for the upcoming conference, which will occur in Arusha, Tanzania on 8-13 March.

08 February 2018
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Youth from churches in the Philippines lift up cross, Bible and lamp in a symbolic performance at the opening of the CWME event

CWME invokes new understanding of mission and evangelism

Since 1982 there has been only one official statement of the World Council of Churches (WCC) on mission and evangelism. Now in 2012 the WCC's Commission on World Mission and Evangelism (CWME) is preparing another statement to invoke new understanding of mission and evangelism amidst changing world and ecclesial scenarios.

22 March 2012
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Dr Mercy Amba Oduyoye, former WCC deputy general secretary, at the CWME meeting in Ghana

New WCC statement on mission and evangelism in process

The first draft of a new mission statement for the World Council of Churches (WCC) was at the centre of a 5-day meeting recently held by the 25-member Commission for World Mission and Evangelism (CWME) on the campus of the University of Ghana near Accra.

29 November 2011