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"Life in Fullness: Challenges and Prospects for Church/Mission", acceptance address of Dr Agnes Abuom, moderator of the WCC Central Committee for award of Honorary Doctorate VID – Stavanger, 10-11-2018

Dr. Agnes Abuom, moderator of the World Council of Churches Central Committee, offered a speech entitled “A Clarion Christian Call to Justice and Peace: Ending Global Inequality and Climate injustice” at the Justice Conference in Oslo, Norway on 9 November.

Report of the general secretary to the Executive Committee, November 2018.

Address to the Swedish Ecumenical Weekend, Uppsala, Sweden, 4 November 2018

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

This week a diverse group of organisations will come together for a forum at the Jesuit Curia in Rome where they will discuss how faith leaders can work together to end violence against children on the move.

Address of Baldwin Sjollema, the first director of the PCR to the WCC Central Committee 2018

Rev. Dr Olav Fykse Tveit's address on "Gender Justice: The Vital Element in the Churches’ Journey toward Justice and Peace"

Communiqué, International Conference on ‘The Holy Scripture in a Changing World’, Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin, Armenia, 27 September – 1 October 2018.

Conference organized jointly by the Vatican Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development and the World Council of Churches in collaboration with the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity, in Rome, 18 - 20 September 2018.

World Conference on Xenophobia, Racism, and Populist Nationalism in the Context of Global Migration, organized by the World Council of Churches and the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity.

Greetings of the WCC General Secretary Rev. Dr Olav Fykse Tveit to the Community of Protestant Churches in Europe, General Assembly,
13-18 September, Basel

Communiqué by the Joint Working Group between the WCC and the RCC, September 2018

“We have sought to support dialogue as a means to resolve differences, and to reaffirm and strengthen calls for justice, peace and respect for diverse ways of thinking in contemporary societies”, reads a message issued by the members of an ecumenical delegation led by the World Council of Churches (WCC) that visited Nicaragua, on 28-29 August 2018.

Speech of Rev. Najla Kassab, President of the World Communion of Reformed Churches at the Youth Symposium celebrating the World Council of Churches 70th anniversary at the Protestant Theological University, Amsterdam, 23 August 2018.

A sermon by Rev. Dr Olav Fykse Tveit, general secretary of the World Council of Churches, in the Protestant Cathedral, Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo.

Greetings to the World Council of Churches from Dr. Luigi de Silvia, president of Religions for Peace Europe, on the occasion of the 70th anniversary of the WCC