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Programme plans 2007-2013 - Summary

06 September 2006

Central Committee

© Peter Williams / WCC Lukasz Nazarko, Stewards Programme Co-ordinator, surrounded by stewards at 9th Assembly of WCC in Porto Alegre © A. Wasyluk /WCC

Being a steward is a life-changing experience

The coordinator of the stewards programme at central committee says he is in that position because he himself was inspired by being part of a similar programme seven years ago.

06 September 2006

Tribute to Johannes Cardinal Willebrands

"An honourable and devoted servant of the Gospel and of the cause of Christian unity" and "a pioneer of the ecumenical movement" is how World Council of Churches (WCC) general secretary Rev. Dr Samuel Kobia describes Johannes Cardinal Willebrands, who died on 2 August 2006, in a tribute issued today.

04 August 2006

Lecture - Speech

Address to the 19th World Methodist Council

Claiming A Common Future

22 July 2006

General Secretary

New moderator of the Faith and Order Standing Commission Bishop Vasilios of Trimithus (Karayiannis)

New Faith and Order Standing Commission elects officers, plans work for next period

At its first meeting, the WCC's newly-appointed Standing Commission on Faith and Order named six officers to oversee its work until the next WCC Assembly in 2013. Following an address by WCC general secretary Samuel Kobia, the Standing Commission also outlined major areas of study for the period.

27 June 2006

Assembly looks to future of spirituality, justice and witness

Report of the Policy Reference Committee (as adopted)

23 February 2006

Report of the Policy Reference Committee (revised)

22 February 2006

Final report of the Special Commission on Orthodox Participation in the WCC

"Final report of the Special Commission on Orthodox participation in the WCC" : The 60-member Special Commission was created by the WCC's eighth assembly in 1998 in response to mainly Orthodox concerns about participation in the Council. Composed of an equal number of representatives from Orthodox churches and from the other churches belonging to the WCC, the Commission submitted its final report to the central committee in September 2002.

14 February 2006

Guidelines for the conduct of meetings of the WCC

These guidelines - covering the roles of moderators, delegates and participants; setting the agenda; making decisions by consensus and by formal vote; election process; language and other elements - apply to the Assembly and to meetings of all bodies of the WCC.

14 February 2006

Report of the Policy Reference Committee (draft - for action)

14 February 2006

Rev. Dr. Samuel Kobia WCC General Secretary

Week of Prayer for Christian Unity plays role in developing ecumenical spirituality, Kobia says

The marks of ecumenical spirituality are "readiness to rethink and to be converted" and willingness "to bear the otherness of the other, including refugees, people of another colour and other faiths, the old and the poor - all God's people," said Rev. Dr Samuel Kobia yesterday, the first day of the 2006 Week of Prayer for Christian Unity.

19 January 2006

WCC general secretary to meet Swiss churches, government

On 18-19 January, World Council of Churches (WCC) general secretary Rev. Dr Samuel Kobia will pay his first official visit to the churches of the country that is home to the headquarters of the WCC.

16 January 2006

Lecture - Speech

2006 Week of Prayer for Christian Unity material

01 January 2006

Joint Working Group

January 2006

:: Seminar on UN reform in New York

22 December 2005

2006 Week of Prayer for Christian Unity

"Where two or three are gathered in my name, I am there among them" from Matt. 18:20 is the theme of the 2006 edition of the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity. It was chosen by an ecumenical group in Ireland.

21 December 2005