 Planners for the ninth WCC assembly promised a dynamic event for 2006 during an update to the central committee Wednesday - exactly one year before the assembly.
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Dialogue and conversation took centre stage at the WCC central committee
meeting on Thursday as members broached the subject of human sexuality. Using a
proposed new consensus model for conducting meetings, information was presented
and discussed without the heated atmosphere that often surrounds such
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Eight churches - from Asia, Africa, Latin America and the
Caribbean region - have been received into the fellowship of the World Council
of Churches (WCC), but the total number of the Council membership increased from
only 342 to 347, since another five member churches have merged into two joint
memberships.
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 A delegation
from the Conference of European Churches (CEC) has just completed a four-day
visit to Serbia, including Kosovo, 10-14 February 2005. The aim of the visit,
which was hosted by the Serbian Orthodox Church, was to renew and strengthen the
links between CEC and the Orthodox Church and other member churches of CEC in
that country. It was the first such official visit by CEC to Serbia since 2001. |
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To restate the ecumenical vision for the 21st century requires a profound
change in churches and ecumenical bodies, Rev. Dr Samuel Kobia told the central
committee of the World Council of Churches (WCC) today.
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Ninety years ago, the Ottoman
empire began to kill the Armenians within its borders. Systematic genocide took
up to a million and a half Armenian lives. By 1923, almost the whole Armenian
population of Anatolian Turkey had disappeared.
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Young Theologians discuss the Future of Christian Mission
Young theologians on future issues of mission: Is there miraculous healing in today's churches? How can people be reconciled in a society torn apart like post-apartheid South Africa? How can the Holy Spirit help to find a new understanding of mission? - These and more questions for the upcoming Conference on World Mission and Evangelism in Athens, Greece, 9-16 May 2005, were discussed in a Young Missiologists Consultation in Rome.
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In solidarity with the churches of Togo, the general secretary of the World Council of Churches (WCC), Rev. Dr Samuel Kobia, called today for a return to "constitutional sobriety" in the country, and emphasized the concern of the Council and of churches worldwide provoked by the constitutional crisis in the country.
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BIBLICAL AND EDUCATIONAL RESOURCE GUIDES AVAILABLE
Lent provides an important opportunity to focus on the challenges of working together to overcome the violence in our culture. The US Committee for the Decade to Overcome Violence (DOV) invites Christians to enter into the Lenten season with a focus on the growing violence in our world and the need for peace and reconciliation. |
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Reaching decisions by consensus, a major shift in the culture and ethos of the World Council of Churches (WCC), will be at the centre of the upcoming meeting of its Central Committee, which will take place 15-22 February in Geneva. |
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