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  • 9 May 2008
    Churches announce international Israel Palestine peace initiative

    The World Council of Churches is inviting member churches and others to join a week of advocacy and action for a just peace in Palestine and Israel. Participants will contribute to a common global witness for peace in early June 2008.

  • 6 May 2008
    Iraqi refugees need Christian solidarity

    A recent meeting of Iraqi Christian refugees and church representatives from around the world has head heart-rending stories of suffering, says Annegret Kapp. Now it is time to back words with action.

  • 27 Apr 2008
    WCC calls for Zimbabwe election results to be declared

    The World Council of Churches has called for the immediate release of the full and complete results of disputed elections in Zimbabwe, as Christians around the world prepare to take part in an international day of prayer for the nation.

  • 24 Apr 2008
    Christians visit Syria to explore peaceful relations with Muslims

    A delegation led by the Rev Samuel Kobia, general secretary of the World Council of Churches (WCC) has travelled to Syria wishing to learn from the country's long experience of Christians and Muslims living peacefully together.

  • 24 Apr 2008
    Church leader honoured for work against racism and apartheid

    The Rev Philip Potter, a former general secretary of the World Council of Churches, has been honoured by the South African government for his determined commitment to combatting racism and apartheid in the 1970s and 1980s.

  • 18 Apr 2008
    Welcoming migrants is not optional, says world church body

    Migration is a fact of life, an instinct to survive and an inevitable consequence of globalization - something we can neither turn our backs on it nor control, declared a statement of participants at a faith-led public hearing in Beirut.

  • 17 Apr 2008
    Christians and Muslims seek cooperation on human challenge of migration

    Migration is a human concern, not a Muslim or a Christian one, and joint action is vital, declared representatives of Lebanon's six most numerous faith communities at a Public Hearing on Migration in Beirut this week.

  • 28 Mar 2008
    Tackling the 'credit crunch' justly

    Everyone is talking about the 'credit crunch'. Patrick Hynes, from Oikocredit, reflects on how access to fair finance continues to be a problem for people who are poor, and proposes a simple solution.

  • 20 Mar 2008
    Churches' solidarity visit to conflict ridden Sudan announced

    An international team of church representatives will pay a solidarity visit to churches and ecumenical organizations in Sudan from 26 March to 2 April 2008, it has been announced today.

  • 10 Mar 2008
    WCC issues unequivocal condemnation of recent seminary bomb outrage

    The head of a world churches body which has been highly critical of the policies of the state of Israel toward the Palestinians has unequivocally condemned the recent bomb outrage against a Jewish seminary in Jerusalem.