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WCC general secretary Rev. Dr Olav Fykse Tveit's letter to Nigerian president-elect Muhammadu Buhari congratulating him.

Letter to the WCC member churches and Central Committee members inviting special prayers for Syria and beyond by the WCC general secretary Rev. Dr Olav Fykse Tveit.

Letter from the WCC general secretary to the Indian churches, addressed to National Council of Churches in India, expressing solidarity and support amidst increasing acts of violence and vandalism affecting Christian community

Letter from the WCC general secretary Rev. Dr Olav Fykse Tveit to the Vanuatu Christian Council expressing solidarity with churches in Vanuatu after the 15 March cyclone.

Letter from the WCC general secretary Rev. Dr Olav Fykse Tveit to Rev. Kalsakau Urtalu Zacharie of the Presbyterian Church of Vanuatu expressing solidarity with churches in Vanuatu after the 15 March cyclone.

Congratulations letter to the new president of the Protestant churches in Egypt, Rev. Dr Andrea Zaki Stephanous, by the WCC acting general secretary Georges Lemopoulos.

Letter from the WCC general secretary Rev. Dr Olav Fykse Tveit to The Rt. Rev. Peter Skov-Jakobsen, Bishop of Copenhagen, Evangelical Lutheran Church in Denmark, after attacks in Copenhagen.

Letter to Pope Tawadros II of the Coptic Orthodox Church in Egypt by the WCC general secretary Rev. Dr Olav Fykse Tveit on killings of 21 Egyptians at the hands of militants.

Letter of ongratulations to Archbishop Urmas Viilma new archbishop of the Estonian Evangelical Lutheran Church.

Letter from the WCC general secretary Rev. Dr Olav Fykse Tveit to the Interfaith Partnership of Greater St. Louis calling for an end to conflict in the aftermath of “the tragic killing by a police officer of Michael Brown, an unarmed eighteen-year-old African American man, and the dangerous escalation of violence in the several days following.”

An open letter to the WCC member churches in Northern Iraq by Dr Isabel Apawo Phiri, associate general secretary of the WCC, soliciting prayers for the Christians, the church communities and all the suffering people on the Plain of Nineveh in northern Iraq, as well as the surrounding region. Reports in recent days have confirmed the forced displacement and indiscriminate killing of Christians, Yazidis, and members of other vulnerable religious and ethnic communities in Iraq as the result of military attacks by the “Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham” (ISIS).

It was nearly 70 years ago on 6 and 9 August 1945 that the atomic bombs were dropped on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. These are tragedies that are to be remembered and must never happen again, Isabel Apawo Phiri, associate and acting general secretary of the WCC, said.

In order to carry forward the spiritual accompaniment of the Korean peninsula and the churches of North and South Korea the WCC is invited to join the Christians of North and South Korea in a joint moment of prayer.

WCC general secretary Rev. Dr Olav Fykse Tveit's letter to Nigerian president Goodluck Jonathan, expressing concern over abduction of young women by Boko Haram fighters in Nigeria, urging “swift and peaceful” action to restore these girls back to their homes.

WCC general secretary Rev. Dr Olav Fykse Tveit’s letter of condolences for the victims of South Korea ferry disaster. The letter was sent to the National Council of Churches in Korea and the WCC member churches in the Republic of Korea, on 23 April 2014.

WCC general secretary Rev. Dr Olav Fykse Tveit's Easter letter to the member churches.

WCC general secretary, Rev. Dr Olav Fykse Tveit's letter conveying condolences on the death of Fr Siketi Tonga, general secretary of the Tonga National Council of Churches.

WCC general secretary Rev. Dr Olav Fykse Tveit's letter to John X, Greek Orthodox Patriarch of Antioch and all the East and president of the World Council of Churches expressing joy on release of kidnapped Syrian nuns.

WCC general secretary Rev. Dr Olav Fykse Tveit and the WCC Central Committee moderator Dr Agnes Abuom's letter of condolences on the death of Rev. Tuikilakila Waqairatu to Methodist Church of Fiji.

WCC general secretary Rev. Dr Olav Fykse Tveit and the WCC Central Committee moderator Dr Agnes Abuom's letter of condolences on the death of Lois M. Dauway to Bishop Maryann Swenson, ecumenical officer for the Council of Bishops of the United Methodist Church.