Porto Alegre - WCC general assembly

"In the spirit of Christianity I apologize, but I deeply believe that the quality of the youth at this assembly are not of the quality which I had hoped"

This was the words of V. Chaplin of the Russian Orthodox Church at 17.40

The comment came in a hearted debate about the youth representation in the WCC Central Committee. Chaplin (that is his name!) had complained that the youth was just shouting like in the 1960s "we are youth", but he had not seen them speak about the topics. This caused the outrage of an US (UK?) bishop which demanded that the assembly did not move forward until Chaplin had apologized.

The youth were supported by quite a number of "old" delegates.

A bishop from Tanzania got up and asked for the forgiveness of the young people.

From the plenary hall at the assembly 17.50 (session is going on)

UPDATE (17.56): the report of the nominations committee is thrown back to the committee to find another solution. Tomorrow a revised version of the report is to be presented.