Message from WCC general secretary Rev. Prof. Dr Jerry Pillay to the 72nd General Assembly of the National Council of Churches in Korea (NCCK): “God of Life, Restore the Creation by your Love” (Psalm 104:30, John 6:39 Revelation 21:5), 20 November 2023.
Address by Marianne Ejdersten, communication director of the WCC at the side-event of the 52nd session of the UN Human Rights Council, launching the report on the impact of sanctions on humanitarian work.
Greetings message by Rev. Hong-Jung Lee, general secretary of the National Council of Churches in Korea, at the Ecumenical Peace Conversation in South Korea.
Keynote speech of the World Council of Churches acting general secretary Rev. Prof. Dr Ioan Sauca at the Ecumenical peace conversation, Seoul, Korea, 11 October 2022.
In a joint message on gender-based violence, sexual abuse, and faith communities, 26 World Council of Churches (WCC) Thursdays in Black ambassadors lament that the scourge of sexual and gender-based violence continues unabated—and call on faith communities to prevent such violence in their own spaces.
Address by Peter Prove, director of the WCC's Commission of the Churches on International Affairs at the WCC-NCCK Consultation on peacebuilding on the Korean Peninsula, Seoul, 23 November 2021.
Walk the Path of the New Commandment: Keynote speech of Peter Prove, director of the WCC's Commission of the Churches on International Affairs at the 70th General Assembly of the National Council of Churches in Korea, 22 November 2021.
Greetings of the World Council of Churches acting general secretary Rev. Prof. Dr Ioan Sauca to the 70th General Assembly of the National Council of Churches in Korea (NCCK), 22 November 2021.
As a wide coalition of faith-based communities from around the world, we have committed to speaking
with one voice that rejects the existential threat to humanity that nuclear weapons pose. We reaffirm that the presence of even one nuclear weapon violates the core principles of our different faith traditions and threatens the unimaginable destruction of everything we hold dear.
A Declaration for the People’s Korea Peace Agreement was launched on 23 July 2020 at a global Zoom convention initiated by the National Council of Churches in Korea, along with civil organizations.
Greetings and speeches at the Award Ceremony of the Dongbaeg Medal, The Order of Civil Merit, at the Embassy of the Republic of Korea in Oslo, Norway, 5 May 2020
Love Makes All Things New: Introductory Remarks by Rev. Dr Olav Fykse Tveit, general secretary of the World Council of Churches at the Swedish Ecumenical Weekend, 3-4 November 2018
Greetings to the Central Committee of the World Council of Churches from the general secretary of the National Council of Churches in Korea (NCCK) on the occasion of the 70th anniversary of the WCC
In a message to the World Economic Forum, World Council of Churches general secretary Rev. Dr Olav Fykse Tveit said he can think of no greater antithesis to a vision of shared life and responsibility than the continued existence of and political and social support for nuclear weapons.