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Pacific church leaders' statement

The challenge of resettlement because of Climate Change was the focus of the Oikoumene Pasifika 2009, which took place in Nadi, Fiji in April 2009. Oikoumene Pasifika bring church leaders from the Pacific Conference of Churches to reflect together on crucial topics affecting the region. WCC staff contributed to this meeting with presentations on Ecumenism and climate change. Church leaders adopted the Moana declaration on "Our Oikos - a new consciousness on climate change and our call to action".

25 April 2009
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The coconut, a staple food in the Pacific region, is a strong contextual religious symbol. Sione Amanaki Havea, the late first chairman of the Pacific Conference of Churches, famously said at the 6th WCC assembly in 1983: "Wheat and grapes, bread and wine, are foreign to us. Today, it is the coconut. We see the kairos in the ripening of the coconut." Photo: Stephanie Bond, Fiji 2007.

Pacific Christians need to be assertive, WCC president says

As people from "a region which has experienced, and is experiencing, the effects of all the major issues that have affected the world," Pacific representatives need to be assertive "in bringing Pacific perspectives and experience into international forums," said the World Council of Churches (WCC) president from the Pacific region, Mr John Taroanui Doom, addressing participants at the 9th assembly of the Pacific Conference of Churches (PCC).

05 September 2007
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WCC general secretary makes first visit to churches in Asia and the Pacific

On his first trip to the Asia and Pacific regions since taking office, WCC general secretary Rev. Dr Samuel Kobia will visit member churches and ecumenical organizations in Hong Kong, Australia and Fiji from 5 to 15 July. Kobia will also spend time with refugees, asylum-seekers and indigenous communities in Australia, and focus on HIV/AIDS in the Pacific.

01 July 2004