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Bob Scott

Rev. Dr Konrad Raiser, general secretary of the World Council of Churches (WCC), will lead a delegation to the Horn of Africa, 1-16 July. The main purpose of the visit is to learn more about the ongoing conflicts in the region and the peace-building role churches can play. Raiser notes that a major need is "to reflect with the churches on the challenge of Christians and Muslims living together without their differences turning into sources of conflict". The delegation will visit northern and southern Sudan, Ethiopia and Eritrea, Tanzania and Kenya.

Rainer Lang

Bob Scott

Sara Speicher

by Sara Speicher

"Suddenly from heaven there came a sound like the rush of a violent wind...." (Acts 2:2; NRSV)

The World Council of Churches (WCC), along with Action by Churches Together (ACT) International and the Lutheran World Federation (LWF) are sending an ecumenical team to West Africa to follow up on allegations in a recent confidential report by the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and Save the Children UK on sexual violence and exploitation of refugee children in Sierra Leone, Liberia and Guinea.

cf. WCC Press Release, PR-01-40, of 29 October 2001

It is with great sorrow that the World Council of Churches (WCC) shares the news that its publisher, Jan H. Kok, died on 7 February 2002 at the age of 59, after a long and courageous struggle with cancer.

A World Council of Churches (WCC) Decade to Overcome Violence (DOV) working group meeting will bring 30 participants from different parts of the world to Geneva from 25-27 January 2002. The meeting will draft user guidelines for a study document for the churches on overcoming violence.