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Im Rahmen seiner kontinuierlichen Initiativen für ein Verbot von Atomwaffen hat der ÖRK die Petition Französisch-Polynesiens an die Vereinten Nationen öffentlich unterstützt, die Nachwirkungen der Atombombentests in dem Areal zu thematisieren.

In its continuing efforts to outlaw nuclear weapons, the WCC has issued public support for French Polynesia’s petition to the UN for redress for ongoing effects of nuclear testing there.

Dans le cadre de ses efforts renouvelés pour interdire les armes nucléaires, le Conseil œcuménique des Églises a déclaré publiquement soutenir la pétition de la Polynésie française adressée aux Nations Unies demandant réparation pour les effets persistants des essais nucléaires qui s’y sont produits.

John Doom lived in a small place on the planet, but he was committed to big things through his faith, fighting to stem atomic testing in the fragile ecosystem of his homeland French Polynesia.

The sound of a bell “calling across fields and cities, re-assembling the community that celebrates the new creation” opened the Sunday service prepared to commemorate 70 years of the Ecumenical Institute at Bossey, on 2 October. The celebration closed a three-day programme of activities around the historic institute’s anniversary.

Should robots make life and death decisions? Religious leaders are asked to tell governments “Never”.

In Tahiti, an ecumenical delegation was told about the need for re-inscription of French Polynesia (Maohi Nui) on the United Nations list of countries to be decolonized.

The 10th Assembly of the Pacific Conference of Churches (PCC), meeting from 3 to 10 March in Honiara, the Solomon Islands, adopted a series of resolutions on public issues ranging from climate change and resettlement, through seabed mining and nuclear weaponry, to the self-determination of West Papua and Maohi Nui (or Tahiti).

„Im Pazifik findet man viele herzliche und starke Ausdrucksformen des Friedens“, sagte der Generalsekretär des Ökumenischen Rates der Kirchen (ÖRK), Pfarrer Dr. Olav Fykse Tveit, in einer an die Pazifische Kirchenkonferenz ( Pacific Conference of Churches , PCC) gerichteten Ansprache anlässlich der 50-Jahrfeier ihres Bestehens, die in der vergangenen Woche in Samoa stattfand.

"Le Pacifique est une région qui manifeste de nombreuses expressions chaleureuses et fortes de la paix", a déclaré le secrétaire général du COE dans une allocution prononcée dans le cadre des célébrations du cinquantième anniversaire de la Conférence des Eglises du Pacifique (PCC/CEP), qui se sont déroulées la semaine dernière aux Samoa.

“The Pacific is a region that displays many warm and strong expressions of peace,’’ World Council of Churches (WCC) general secretary Rev. Dr Olav Fykse Tveit said in a speech to the Pacific Conference of Churches (PCC) 50th anniversary celebration held in Samoa this past week.