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  • 7 Mar 2008
    World churches body to monitor Zimbabwe elections

    The general secretary of the World Council of Churches has told his UN counterpart that the ecumenical body and its members in Africa are planning for the monitoring of elections scheduled in Zimbabwe.

  • 21 Feb 2008
    WCC kicks off global search for new general secretary

    Presided by an African woman, and including three young people, eight women, and strong representation from the South, the search committee for a new World Council of Churches head has set to work.

  • 20 Feb 2008
    World churches body responds to major election issues

    Election issues fresh Kenya and Pakistan, and the larger picture of democratic electoral processes, formed the focus for three public statements adopted by the World Council of Churches' central committee meeting in Geneva.

  • 20 Feb 2008
    Churches urged to be 'more Christian' in public policy statements

    The Rev Kjell Magne Bondevik, former prime minister of Norway and now moderator of the World Council of Churches' Commission of the Churches on International Affairs, wants to see its public statements carry a distinctly religious tone.

  • 18 Feb 2008
    World churches body explores possibilities of expansion

    Representatives on the governing body of the 349 member World Council of Churches, which brings together Orthodox, Protestant and Anglican Christians and cooperates with the Roman Catholic Church, have been exploring a wider grouping.

  • 17 Feb 2008
    Kobia pinpoints ethnic and political rifts hampering Kenya's churches

    Ethnic and political divisions have prevented church leaders in Kenya from responding to the political crisis in their country, the main governing body of the WCC has been told by its general secretary, the Rev Samuel Kobia.

  • 16 Feb 2008
    Kingston Jamaica to host global churches' peace conference

    Kingston, Jamaica, will be the host city for the World Council of Churches' International Ecumenical Peace Convocation in 2011, it has been announced - marking a decade of activity promoting practical responses to violence.

  • 15 Feb 2008
    Globalisation is reshaping the church, says WCC chief

    New expressions of Christianity, the growing prominence of the global South, the impact of globalization and increasing religious diversity are radically changing the shape of the church says the head of the world's largest church body.

  • 14 Feb 2008
    Two new churches from Brazil and Laos join global body

    Two church communions from opposite sides of the globe were welcomed into full fellowship of the World Council of Churches (WCC) on Wednesday, increasing the membership of the global Christian body, the largest of its kind, to 349.

  • 12 Feb 2008
    WCC faces 'significant challenges' as it celebrates 60th birthday

    The main governing body of the World Council of Churches is meeting in Geneva from 13-20 February, during which it will celebrate the 60th anniversary its 1948 founding. The WCC is now the world's largest Christian grouping.