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WCC Advocacy Week in New York: Panelists offer sobering assessment and glimmers of hope for human rights

Cf. WCC Press Release PR-03-33 of 6 November 2003

11 November 2003

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Scars of memory: an artist responds to the Rwandan genocide

A major exhibition by the Ghanaian painter and sculptor Kofi Setordji is on display in the Ecumenical Centre in Geneva, headquarters of the World Council of Churches.

08 September 2003

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Minute on the Responsibility to Protect: Ethical and Theological Reflections

02 September 2003

Central Committee

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Challenges of mission in a pluralistic world

Reflection of Wong Wai Ching Angela on Challenges of Mission in the Pluralistic World at the WCC Central committee, 2003

02 September 2003

Central Committee

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The Responsibility to Protect: Ethical and Theological Reflections

A report to the WCC Central Committee meeting in 2003, from the Commission of the Churches on International Affairs (CCIA) on the follow-up of the 2001 WCC Central Committee document "The protection of endangered populations in situations of armed violence"

02 September 2003

Central Committee

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"The position of the churches against war has increased their moral standing in society"

When the military actions in Iraq were over, those who had opposed the military invasion had to face the assessment - conveyed by the media and the military victors - that it had been "successful". The World Council of Churches (WCC) general secretary Rev. Dr Konrad Raiser responds in this interview to the "critical questions" posed to organizations like the Council, which had a high profile in the pro-peace movement. He also mentions the announced "road map" to a permanent two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

04 June 2003

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