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On 27 July 1953 – 70 years ago today – the Korean War Armistice Agreement was signed in Panmunjom by senior representatives of the United Nations Command, and military leaders of North Korea (the Korean People's Army) and China (the Chinese People's Volunteer Army).

On 23 February 2023, at a special event at the University of Fribourg honoring his work, former acting general secretary of the World Council of Churches, Rev. Prof. Dr Ioan Sauca, delivered a lecture exploring the question: “What future for the ecumenical movement?”

Address of WCC director for International Affairs Peter Prove at the event commemorating the 40th anniversary of the May 18 Democratic Uprising, "The Prospective Future of the Korean Peninsula After Peaceful Reunification"

Address of Rev. Dr Olav Fykse Tveit at the Award Ceremony of the Dongbaek Medal of the Order of Civil Merit of the Republic of Korea, at the Embassy of the Republic of Korea in Oslo, Norway, 5 May 2020.

Keynote speech of the WCC general secretary Rev. Dr Olav Fykse Tveit at the NCCK General Assembly in Seoul, South Korea, 20 November 2019

Presented by Peter Prove at the International Seminar on the Ecumenical Diaconal Ministry of North/South Korea, 4-5 March 2019, Seoul

Opening speech of Rev. Dr Olav Fykse Tveit, World Council of Churches general secretary at the World Children’s Day event in Ecumenical Centre, Geneva, 21 November 2018

Keynote address of Peter Prove, Director of the Commission of the Churches on International Affairs, World Council of Churches at the 2018 Global Peace Forum on Korea, New York, 29 September 2018

Address by Rev. D. Jensen Seyenkulo, Ph.D, Bishop of the Lutheran Church in Liberia, and 1st VP of the Liberian Council of Churches.

The past as prologue: The Reformation and the future of Christian dialogue, by Rev Dr. Olav Fykse Tveit, World Council of Churches general secretary, in Minneapolis and Collegeville, 8 and 10 September 2017

The ecumenical chance of the year 2017 - review - proposals - perspectives, by Rev. Dr Olav Fykse Tveit, WCC General Secretary.

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

WCC general secretary presented a lecture on ecumenism in Brisbane, Australia, on 18 October 2016. The lecture's name pays tribute to Bishop Michael Putney.

Ecumenical Dinner – Keynote Address by Rev. Dr Olav Fykse Tveit, General Secretary, World Council of Churches
This day, Sept 1, has become a new moment in our ecumenical calendars in recent years as The Day of Creation. This year we have as World Council of Churches, together with the Ecumenical Patriarch and other ecumenical leaders and partners,issued a unique common ecumenical call to celebrate, to pray, and to care for God’s wonderful creation. This is a meaningful sign of our Christian unity, and offers me an entry to what I want to say about being One. To be One is about life, to be together; it is about finding new ways forward together; and it is about contributing to real hope.

On 6 April, WCC general secretary Rev. Dr Olav Fykse Tveit addressed the issue of global security in a contribution to York Minster’s lecture series Global Security and the United Nations: 70 years on, in York, UK.

Speech given by WCC general secretary Rev. Dr Olav Fykse Tveit at the Nordic Conference on Systematic Theology, Helsinki, on 9 January, 2016

Speech by Bishop Heinrich Bedford-Strohm at 70th Anniversary Hiroshima Day Rally, World Conference Against A and H Bombs, Green Arena, Prefectural Gymnasium, Hiroshima, 6 August 2015. WCC Pilgrimage to Hiroshima and Nagasaki 5-9 August 2015.

Greetings to the Mennonite World Assembly by Dr Isabel Apawo Phiri, WCC associate general secretary for Public Witness and Diakonia.

Greetings by the Rev. Dr Olav Fykse Tveit on the 50th anniversary of the Joint Working Group between the Roman Catholic Church and the WCC.

“Our life and our death are with our neighbour” – this is a spiritual affirmation from the Christian tradition which we owe to Saint Anthony, a monk from Egypt of the third and fourth century. This is our common legacy from the early years of Armenia and its Christian history. To be human is to be part of the one humanity. From the first day of our life we depend on others. Today we are reminded in a dramatic way that belonging to one another is our destiny, for better or for worse. The gift of life together includes our responsibility for one another. This is a matter of being human, created by God for fellowship and unity.