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Introductory brochure for the Symposium, Growing up in Conflict: The impact on children’s mental health and well-being, convened by UNICEF, in partnership with the Government of the Netherlands, on 26-28 May 2015 in The Hague.

Joint statement from the South Sudan Council of Churches and the World Council of Churches Consultation on Peace in South Sudan.
14 – 15 April 2015
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Statement towards a nuclear free world, adopted as part of the Report of the Public Issues Committee by the World Council of Churches Central Committee.

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.

Delivered by Rabbi David Fox Sandmel to the WCC 10th Assembly Mission Plenary.

Congratulations to the Nobel Peace Prize laureate of 2013, the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons

Charity Concert with Global Alliance against Female Genital Mutilation

Dr Isabel Apawo Phiri, associate general secretary's presentation at the AACC International Symposium 2012

From the Conference jointly organized by
Justice and Diakonia, Just and Inclusive Communities, and Mission and Evangelism programmes
of the World Council of Churches
in Colombo, Sri Lanka, June 2-6, 2012

XXVII Quadrennial Assembly of the National Council of Churches in India
April 25-28, 2012, Bangalore, India
Speech by Rev. Dr Olav Fykse Tveit
World Council of Churches General Secretary

Indigenous Peoples have the oldest living cultures in the world. Three hundred to five hundred million Indigenous Peoples today live in over 72 countries around the world, and they comprise at least 5,000 distinct peoples. The ways of life, identities, well-being and very existence of Indigenous People are threatened by the continuing effects of colonization and national policies, regulations and laws that attempt to force them to assimilate into the cultures of majoritarian societies. A fundamental historical basis and legal precedent for these policies and laws is the "Doctrine of Discovery", the idea that Christians enjoy a moral and legal right based solely on their religious identity to invade and seize indigenous lands and to dominate Indigenous Peoples.

The Rev. Dr Olav Fykse Tveit, spoke at the University of Oslo in the context of a series of presentations on justice, peace and the role of religion in global perspective marking the university's 200th anniversary.

Ten years after the 9 September 2001, when thousands of people from more than 90 countries were killed in a coordinated assault on targets in the United States, the WCC general secretary reflects on the legacy of pain, grief, disorder and enmity, and on the power and meaning to be found in supportive prayers and other expressions of compassion.

Summary of major learnings from the meeting of the Working Group representing the South East Asian, South Asian, Middle East and Gulf regions at Bangkok Christian Guest House, Bangkok, 17-20 July 2011

The WCC Central Committee, meeting in Geneva 16-22 February 2011, approved this Statement on Indigenous Peoples in Australia.

Rev. Dr Olav Fykse Tveit on the anniversary of the nuclear bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

Grief over the many deaths and the devastation caused by recent floods in Pakistan, as well as appreciation for the relief work provided by the Diocese of Peshawar of the Church of Pakistan, was expressed by the WCC general secretary Tveit in a letter to the government.

The situation in the South Asia region poses a major threat to world peace. WCC's Central Committee statement on South Asia.

This statement on religious violence and intolerance in India expressing concern about the alarming trend of growing communal violence and religious intolerance in India was approved by the WCC executive committee in Luebeck, September 2008