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Sermon at the opening prayer for the WCC central committee on 23 June 2021: Most Rev. Dr Olav Fykse Tveit, Church of Norway, former general secretary of the WCC

Bishop Dr Olav Fykse Tveit, Church of Norway offered this reflection during the online morning prayer for Ecumenical Centre staff. This week in the Ecumenical Prayer Cycle, we pray with the people and churches of Denmark, Faroe Islands, Finland, Greenland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden.

Sermon of the Rev. Dr Olav Fykse Tveit, WCC general secretary at the Morning Prayer in the Ecumenical Centre, Epiphany, 7 January 2019

Sermon of Rev. Dr Olav Fykse Tveit, general secretary of the World Council of Churches, in Uppsala Cathedral on 4 November 2018

“The Love of Christ Compels Us”: Sermon of the WCC General Secretary Rev Dr Olav Fykse Tveit in the Nieuwe Kerk, Amsterdam on 23 August 2018

Reflection during the Ecumenical Centre morning prayer by Marianne Ejdersten, director of communication for the WCC.

A statement issued by the World Council of Churches and the Middle East Council of Churches at the international and ecumenical conference on "Christian Presence and Witness in the Middle East" from 21 – 25 May 2013 at the Notre-Dame du Mont Monastery, Lebanon.

Reflections on Colossians 1:15-20 at Ecumenical Centre 14 January 2013

Bishop Schindehütte was part of a small EKD delegation visiting the LWF, WCRC and WCC on 28 November 2012 for talks about the Reformation Jubilee in 2017. During morning prayers, Bishop Martin Schindehütte of the Evangelical Church in Germany gave a short reflection on John 1:1-15.

The WCC, WCRC and Council for World Mission (CWM) convened the Global Ecumenical Conference on a New Financial and Economic Architecture to engage diverse proponents, set criteria and framework and develop a plan of action and milestones towards constructing just, caring and sustainable global financial and economic structures.

Minute on the unlawful detention of Archbishop Jovan of Ochrid and Metropolitan of Skopje of the Serbian Orthodox Church, adopted as part of the Report of the Public Issues Committee by the World Council of Churches Central Committee.

Sermon at the Chapel of the Ecumenical Centre

22 of the 26 WCC member churches in Indonesia, as well as the Igreja Protestante iha Timor Lorosae, gathered at Dhyana Pura, Bali, along with leadership representatives of the WCC, Christian Conference of Asia (CCA) and Communion of Churches in Indonesia (PGI), on 11-14 November 2011.

International Inter-Orthodox Consultation
on "The Ecumenical Movement in Theological Education and in the Life of Orthodox Churches" held in Sibiu Romania from the 9-12 November 2010.

The World Council of Churches (WCC) general secretary Rev. Dr Olav Fykse Tveit has congratulated the Rev. Dr Jerry Pillay on his election as president of the World Communion of Reformed Churches. In a 7 July 2010 letter, Tveit highlighted the "ecumenical commitment" of Pillay, who is also the general secretary of the Uniting Presbyterian Church in South Africa. The WCC general secretary expressed expectations for "ever deeper conversations and cooperation" with the new world church body and its member churches.

This minute on the UNFCCC Conference of Parties - COP 15 in Copenhagen has been adopted by the WCC's Executive committee during its meeting in Bossey, Switzerland, 23-26 February 2010.