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The Commitment of the Church to the Quest of a Just Peace - A North American Experience

By the Rev. Robert O. Smith, Evangelical Lutheran Church in America – Global Mission, USA

13 September 2008

WCC Programmes

WCC LWF letter to the Prime Minister of India

The World Council of Churches (WCC) and the Lutheran World Federation (LWF) jointly call on the President of India to end the violence in the state of Orissa.

04 September 2008

Ecumenical movement

Orissa: WCC and LWF ask for end of violence, solidarity

The World Council of Churches (WCC) and the Lutheran World Federation (LWF) have jointly called on the Prime Minister of India requesting his intervention to end the violence in the state of Orissa. The WCC invites its member churches to join a call from Christians in India to hold a Day of Prayer and Fasting for peace and goodwill on Sunday, 7 September.

04 September 2008

Message

Message to the LWF Council meeting in Tanzania

24 June 2008

General Secretary

Christian youth movements call for signs of unity

A number of major international Christian youth movements and organizations called for stronger efforts towards unity in a joint statement issued on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity. Addressed to the heads of the Roman Catholic Church, the World Council of Churches, Christian World Communions and Regional Ecumenical Organizations, the statement asks them to "share ecumenical dialogue with young people" and expresses the commitment of the signatories to "raise awareness of the importance of Christian unity among young people".

23 January 2008

Ecumenical movement

Call to prayer and action for Christian unity

From 18 to 25 January 2008 Christians all over the world will celebrate the 100th anniversary of the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity. On this occasion, the major global Christian student and youth organizations and youth desks of the different Churches call upon all their members to take action and make their voices heard for Christian Unity.

01 November 2007

Ecumenical movement

60th anniversary eucharist service at Lund Cathedral

WCC congratulates LWF on 60th anniversary

The "strong relationship" between the Lutheran World Federation (LWF) and the World Council of Churches (WCC) has been characterized "not only by mutual accountability and reciprocity on the journey towards unity, but by the common witness of the member churches in the service of all humanity" says a message addressed to the LWF on its 60th anniversary by the WCC.

26 March 2007

Message

LWF 60th anniversary

24 March 2007

General Secretary

Joint protest action by trade unions and migrant workers' organizations against human rights violations by the Philippines government (March 2006)

Human Rights Council: church representatives to report on Philippines human rights violations

An ecumenical report and a call to action documenting human rights violations in the Philippines will be launched today in Geneva (Palais des Nations, Room XXVII, 14:00), within the framework of the current session of the UN Human Rights Council.

19 March 2007

Nobel peace laureate and retired Archbishop of Capetown Desmond Tutu addresses ecumenical opening ceremony

The war on terror cannot be won unless the world changes for rich and poor, Desmond Tutu tells World Social Forum

The war on terror will "never" be won "as long as there are conditions in the world that make people desperate," like dehumanizing poverty, disease and ignorance, Nobel laureate and former Archbishop Desmond Tutu told ecumenical participants at the start of the 2007 World Social Forum (WSF) in Nairobi.

23 January 2007

The ecumenical coalition at the 2005 World Social Forum participating in a march in the streets of Porto Alegre on the opening day of the WSF. © Paulino Menezes/WCC & LWF

Building synergies and common strategies: ecumenical coalition to participate in 7th WSF

Ceremonies in Nairobi's Holy Family Roman Catholic Basilica and All Saints Anglican Cathedral and a procession from one to the other church are part of events being organized by the All Africa Conference of Churches/Caritas Ecumenical Platform to mark the opening of the 7th World Social Forum (WSF).

18 January 2007

WARC Officers and LWF Executive Committee meet at Chavannes-de-Bogis. (Photo: Jet den Hollander)

WCC welcomes LWF-WARC views on feasibility of an "ecumenical assembly"

In a statement released today, the World Council of Churches (WCC) has welcomed the affirmation that, after 2010, the "LWF and WARC would no longer hold global assemblies of their own, given a satisfactory development in this area". The affirmation was made by a joint meeting of the officers of the World Alliance of Reformed Churches (WARC) with the executive committee of the Lutheran World Federation (LWF).

29 November 2006

Mural painting of Martin Luther, El Salvador

El Salvador: Lutheran pastors assassinated

The Lutheran World Federation (LWF) and the World Council of Churches (WCC) have reacted together to news of the "despicable" assassination on 4 November of Lutheran Church in El Salvador co-pastors Francisco Carillo and his wife JesÃºs Calzada de Carillo.

08 November 2006