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Christmas Message of the World Council of Churches, December 2022

Message of the WCC Indigenous Peoples Pre-Assembly, 28-30 August 2022, Karlsruhe, Germany.

Moderator of the World Council of Churches (WCC) central committee Dr Agnes Abuom shared a message with the Conference of the World Council of Religious Leaders on Faith and Diplomacy: Generations in Dialogue, being held 4-7 October in Lindau, Germany.

An Ecumenical Call: High Time for ‘Peace and Accountability’ in South Sudan by the Ecumenical Network on South Sudan (ENSS) Europe and North America Hub on the occasion of the International Peace Day, 21st September 2021

Recently during the PJP harvest gathering meeting of WCC, at a workshop on revisiting the Seven Weeks for Water – Lenten campaign of the World Council of Churches Ecumenical Water Network, Dr Agnes Abuom was asked to reflect on the linkage between the WCC’s water justice campaign and the WCC’s overarching theme of Pilgrimage of  Justice and Peace? Having attended several PJP meetings and Lenten campaigns herself, she responded in a pre-recorded video message. The following is the transcript of her video message.

Farewell greetings to Rev. Dr. Cornelia Fullkrug-Weitzel by Dr Agnes Abuom.

As a wide coalition of faith-based communities from around the world, we have committed to speaking
with one voice that rejects the existential threat to humanity that nuclear weapons pose. We reaffirm that the presence of even one nuclear weapon violates the core principles of our different faith traditions and threatens the unimaginable destruction of everything we hold dear.

Inter-faith group active at UNFCCC conferences response to the postponement of the COP26 - 22nd of April, Earth Day

Easter message by the leadership of the WCC Central Committee.

Greetings from the World Council of Churches regional presidents to the fellowship of churches around the world celebrating the birthday of the church on Pentecost.

"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

Address of Dr Agnes Abuom, moderator of the Central Committee of the World Council of Churches, at the WCC Executive Committee meeting in Uppsala, Sweden, 1 November 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.

Reflection by Dr Agnes Abuom, Moderator of the WCC central committee, at the WCC 70th anniversary celebration service in Amsterdam, 23 August 2018

As Great Britain continued to cope with grief and trauma in the wake of the country’s deadliest terror attack in 12 years, WCC general secretary Rev. Dr Olav Fykse Tveit offered sympathy for those who lost loved ones from both Great Britain and other countries.

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