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Address by World Council of Churches general secretary Rev. Dr Olav Fykse Tveit, at Al Azhar University in Cairo, Egypt, 27 April 2017.

Response to the address of HAH the Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I, by WCC general secretary Rev. Dr Olav Fykse Tveit.

Ökumenischer Rat der Kirchen (ÖRK), ACT Alliance (ACT), Lutherischer Weltbund (LWB): Erklärung zum US-amerikanischen präsidentiellen Dekret „Schutz der Nation vor der Einreise ausländischer Terroristen in die Vereinigten Staaten“ und dessen Auswirkungen auf Flüchtlinge

Joint Statement of World Council of Churches (WCC), ACT Alliance (ACT) and The Lutheran World Federation
on US Presidential Executive Order “Protecting the Nation from Foreign Terrorist Entry into the United States” and its Impact on Refugees

This document is a summary and synthesis of policy positions on key issues pertaining to the situation in Palestine and Israel adopted by governing bodies of the World Council of Churches (WCC) from 1948 to 2016. It addresses major themes in these policy positions, but does not pretend to full comprehensiveness. The document has no official standing itself; for the official authoritative positions, the original policy documents referred to should be consulted directly.

As part of an ongoing, multiyear project called “Walking Together,” an international and interreligious group met in Nicosia, Cyprus, from 6-8 December to explore different facets of the theme “Pilgrimage of Justice and Peace,” which undergirds the World Council of Churches' programmatic focus.

Statement on the current situation in Aleppo, Syria, by Rev. Dr Olav Fykse Tveit, 4 December, 2016.

Speech by WCC general secretary Rev. Dr Olav Fykse Tveit on 27 October 2016, at the Peterskirche, the University Church of Heidelberg.

Presentation by Rev. Dr Olav Fykse Tveit, 30 September 2016.

Letter from Rev. Dr Olav Fykse Tveit on the occasion of the World Week for Peace in Palestine and Israel, 2016.

A liturgy resource toolbox prepared for the World Week for Peace in Palestine and Israel, 18-24 September 2016.

Keinem Volk sollte sein Recht vorenthalten werden, und sicherlich sollte keinem Volk sein Recht über Generationen hinweg vorenthalten werden. Der ungelöste Konflikt in Israel und Palästina ist primär eine Frage der Gerechtigkeit, und bis Gerechtigkeit herrscht, kann es dort keinen Frieden geben. Bald hält Israel Ost-Jerusalem, das Westjordanland und Gaza seit 50 Jahren besetzt; das bedeutet, dass mehrere Generationen unter dieser Situation gelitten haben und weiterhin darunter leiden. Die Möglichkeit einer tragfähigen Zweistaatenlösung, für die wir uns schon seit langem einsetzen, scheint schwerer zu erreichen und unrealistischer denn je zuvor.

Statement by general secretaries Rev. Dr Olav Fykse Tveit (World Council of Churches) and Jim Winkler (National Council of the Churches of Christ in the USA) on NCC/WCC Consultation on the Holy Land, 14 September, 2016

Message to the Middle East Council of Churches on 8 September 2016, delivered by WCC associate general secretary Prof. Dr Isabel Apawo Phiri, representing the WCC general secretary Rev. Dr Olav Fykse Tveit.

Reflection during the Ecumenical Centre morning prayer by Marianne Ejdersten, director of communication for the WCC.

Message from the Bossey Interreligious Course August 2016.

He has broken down the dividing wall, that is, the hostility between us. (Ephesians 2.14)

The WCC Central Committee calls for more concerted and coordinated international action to resolve the root causes of forcible displacement of people.

The WCC Central Committee calls for more concerted and coordinated international action to resolve the root causes of forcible displacement of people.

Middle East Plenary Speech by Dr Tarek Mitri