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Message to the General Synod of the Dutch Reformed Church (NGK) in South Africa from Rev. Prof. Dr Jerry Pillay, general secretary of the World Council of Churches.

In a letter to the Presbyterian Church (USA), World Council of Churches general secretary Rev. Prof. Dr Jerry Pillay extended condolences in the wake of a shooting at the Old National Bank in Louisville, Kentucky—just blocks away from the church offices.

The World Council of Churches (WCC) has paid tribute to its former general secretary, Rev. Dr Philip Potter, who was born on 19 August 1921, and led the council from 1972 to 1984, a time of global religious and socio-political change.

WCC expresses solidarity with US churches as they raise “prophetic voices in the midst of this new and acute crisis”.

World Council of Churches Pastoral letter based on Pilgrim Team Visit to South Africa on Gender-Based Violence and Femicide and Xenophobia

On 7 May 2018, Rev. Dr Olav Fykse Tveit, general secretary of the World Council of Churches, sent a letter of condolences to the family of Rev. Dr James Cone and his beloved community of faith and scholars, upon the passing of Rev. Cone on 28 April 2018.

Open letter from The National Coalition of Christian Organizations in Palestine to the World Council of Churches and the ecumenical movement.

The WCC leadership will bring the letter to the next meeting of its Executive Committee in November 2017 in Amman, Jordan. The WCC also invited its members churches and partners worldwide to read and share the letter as a local voice from today’s Palestine.

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.”

In a letter to the Norway Christian Council, the general secretary of the World Council of Churches (WCC), Rev. Dr Olav Fykse Tveit, and the moderator of the WCC Central Committee, Rev. Dr Walter Altmann, expressed their "deep shock and sadness" concerning the attacks of 22 July 2011.

Letter to the WCC 8th Assembly from the women and men of the Decade Festival of the Churches in Solidarity with Women