Category - The World Council of Churches

Dialogue highlights role of faith in global peacemaking

staff writers — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 07:37:26 +0000

At a high-profile interfaith dialogue for peace in Naples, Italy, earlier this week, gathered religious and political leaders and intellectuals from five continents committed themselves to tackling the causes of global conflict.

We need to move beyond Kyoto, says world churches' body

staff writers — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 06:41:22 +0000

The Kyoto Protocol is "an important step forward towards a just and sustainable global climate policy regime" but "much more radical reductions [of greenhouse gas emissions] are urgently needed," the World Council of Churches' executive committee has declared.

Sri Lanka solidarity visit planned by global churches

staff writers — Wed, 01 Aug 2007 00:08:00 +0000

War-torn Sri Lanka is to receive the first of a series of ecumenical "living letters" teams which will visit Christian communities facing situations of violence in different regions of the world.

WCC chief notes shift from West to South in world Christianity

staff writers — Thu, 22 Feb 2007 10:58:51 +0000

The head of the World Council of Churches has lamented the decline of Christianity in the West, while also praising rapid growth of the faith in developing countries - reports Ecumeical News International (ENI).

WCC chief says China and India will reshape our world

staff writers — Mon, 12 Feb 2007 00:00:00 +0000

China and India are growing influences on global change which will transform the way the world is governed and also the meaning of development, the general secretary of the World Council of Churches, the Rev Dr Samuel Kobia, has declared - report Fredrick Nzwili from Nairobi for Ecumenical News International (ENI) and Paulino Menezes (WCC).