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By the WCC Executive Committee, November 2021.

The WCC has acknowledged that racism is a church-dividing issue and has underlined the importance of continuing the discussion on restorative justice to people of African descent and Indigenous Peoples. Racism and racial justice is the global theme for the year of 2019 in the common journey of the Pilgrimage of Justice and Peace (PJP).

The executive committee of the World Council of Churches, meeting in Bossey, Switzerland, on 22-28 May 2019, recalls the many initiatives and expressions of concern about the situation in the Indonesian provinces of Papua and Papua Barat (together referred to herein as “West Papua” or “Tanah Papua”) by national, regional and international ecumenical and church-related organizations over many years.

Statement by WCC Executive Committee, November 2018

By WCC Executive Committee, Amman, Jordan, 17-23 November 2017.

By WCC Executive Committee, Amman, Jordan, 17-23 November 2017.

The Executive Committee of the World Council of Churches (WCC), meeting in Bossey, Switzerland, on 7-12 June 2017, expresses its deep disappointment at the recent decision by the US President to withdraw from the Paris Agreement concluded in December 2015.

Statement on Climate Justice by the WCC executive committee, meeting in Nanjing, China, 17-23 November 2016

The executive committee of the World Council of Churches (WCC) meeting in Geneva, Switzerland, 13-18 November 2015, welcomes the peaceful election process recently concluded in Myanmar.

The Minute on the current situation in Pakistan has been Approved by consensus by the WCC Executive Committee, 14-17 September, 2010, Musselburgh/Edinburg, Scotland.