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Rev. Dr Angelique Walker-Smith, a member of the WCC Central Committee and of the WCC Commission on Ecumenical Education and Formation, pays tribute to a pioneering Pan African woman leader in the ecumenical movement.

Speech of Rev. Dr Olav Fykse Tveit, WCC General Secretary at the Open University of Cyprus – Archdiocese of Constantia and Ammochostos, January 10, 2019, Paralimni

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.

Statement by WCC Executive Committee, November 2018

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

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

As one of the WCC's founding members, the African Methodist Episcopal Church (AME) is honored to offer its greetings as the global fellowship continues its celebration of the 70th anniversary of the founding of the WCC, writes Bishop Reginald T. Jackson, president of the African Methodist Episcopal Church Council of Bishops.

Address of Beatrice Fihn, executive director of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons to the WCC Central Committee meeting 2018

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

The World Council of Churches regrets the decision by the Government of the United States of America to withdraw all funding from the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) for Palestinian Refugees.

Fifty years ago Rev. Dr Martin Luther King Jr. organized the 1968 Poor People’s Campaign to end poverty, discrimination, and militarism and to advocate for freedom, economic justice and civil and human rights for the most vulnerable in the United States of America.

The central committee of the World Council of Churches (WCC), meeting in Geneva, Switzerland, on 15-21 June 2018, is deeply concerned by recent developments in Gaza and Jerusalem, and the on-going struggle of the Christians of the Holy Land.