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Geneva Peace Week

04 - 08 November 2019

Geneva Peace Week offers an opportunity to connect and highlight the work of peacebuilding actors and to expand the space for building peace and resolving conflict through dialogue and negotiation. World Council of Churches is involved in organization of two events during the Geneva Peace week.

Geneva, Switzerland

Shock at assassination of Pakistan government minister Bhatti

In a letter to the prime minister of Pakistan, the general secretary of the World Council of Churches (WCC) expressed «great shock and dismay» at the assassination of Shahbaz Bhatti, the Pakistan government minister for Minority Affairs. Rev. Dr Olav Fykse Tveit noted that reports indicate that Mr Bhatti was «assassinated by religious extremists because he was critical of the controversial blasphemy law in Pakistan.»

General Secretary