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	World Council of Churches
		In 1937, church leaders from 147 different churches, mostly Protestant and predominantly from Europe and North America agreed to establish a World Council of Churches (WCC), but its official organization was deferred by the outbreak of the Second World War until August 1948, when representatives assembled in Amsterdam to constitute the WCC.
		On that ancient promise, and in that urgent hope, the World Council of Churches serves as a witness to reconciliation among churches.
		The prayer of the churches which belong to the council is, "in one faith and in one Eucharistic fellowship, expressed in worship and common life in Christ, through witness and service to the world.” This prayer is for the renewal and faithful response of the people of God in witness and service to the world.
	www.faithstreams.com /topics/members-and-partners/world-council-of-churches.html (429 words)

	World Council of Churches - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Subsequently mergers were with the International Missionary Council in 1961 and the World Council of Christian Education, with its roots in the 18th century Sunday School movement, in 1971.
		The Special Commission on Orthodox Participation in the WCC represents the potential for fresh and creative high-level discussion about the structure and life of the Council, a discussion which is explicitly seen as continuing the foundations laid by the process and the policy document "Towards and Common Understanding and Vision of the WCC".
		WCC Central Committee Toronto statement on The Church, the Churches, and the World Council of Churches
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/World_Council_of_Churches (1763 words)

	ECUMENICAL COUNCIL : Encyclopedia Entry (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Study of the canons of church councils is the foundation of the development of canon law, especially the reconciling of seemingly contradictory canons or the determination of priority between them.
		Council of Siena, (1423–1424) de-listed as the result was later branded a heresy; is the high point of conciliarism, emphasizing the leadership of the bishops gathered in council.
		Council of Trent, (1545–1563, discontinuously); response to the challenges of Calvinism and Lutheranism, imposition of uniformity in liturgy in the Roman Rite (the "Tridentine Mass"), clearly defined Biblical canon.
	www.bibleocean.com /OmniDefinition/Ecumenical_council (2662 words)

	World Council of Churches at opensource encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		After the initial successes of the Ecumenical Movement in the late 19th and early 20th Centuries, church leaders (in 1937) agreed to establish a World Council of Churches, based on a merger of earlier organizations.
		WCC member churches today include nearly all the world's Orthodox churches, scores of denominations from such historic traditions of the Protestant Reformation as Baptist, Lutheran, Methodist and Reformed, the Anglican Communion, and a broad representation of united and independent churches.
		The largest Christian body, the Roman Catholic Church, is not a member of the WCC, but has worked closely with the Council for more than three decades and sends representatives to all major WCC conferences as well as to its Central Committee meetings and the assemblies.
	www.wiki.tatet.com /World_Council_of_Churches.html (314 words)

	Anglican Journal: World Council of Churches
		The head of the World Council of Churches (WCC) has concluded a visit to India by laying the foundations for a disaster shelter and community centre at a Muslim-majority village in southern India hit by the December 2005 tsunami.
		Hong Kong Churches must find new ways of demonstrating unity in a world of change where the focus of Christianity is shifting to the Southern Hemisphere, said the general secretary of the World Council of Churches (WCC), Rev....
		Leaders of the World Council of Churches (WCC) have demanded that the Israeli government "stop and reverse" the construction of a barrier being erected "in the occupied Palestinian territories." The construction and location...
	www.anglicanjournal.com /world/wcc (532 words)

	Press release: WCC central committee encourages consideration of economic measures for peace in Israel/Palestine
		The WCC governing body encouraged the Council's member churches "to give serious consideration to economic measures that are equitable, transparent and non-violent" as a new way to work for peace, by looking at ways to not participate economically in illegal activities related to the Israeli occupation.
		As a frame for its recommendation, the WCC governing body recalls both its 1992 statement that "criticism of the policies of the Israeli government is not in itself anti-Jewish", and its 1969 call for "effective international guarantees for the political independence and territorial integrity of all nations in the area, including Israel".
		The WCC general secretary is Rev. Dr Samuel Kobia, from the Methodist Church in Kenya.
	www.eappi.org /pressreleasesen.nsf/index/pr-cc-05-08.html (535 words)

	World Council of Churches letter on the violence in the Middle East
		On July 21, 2006 the The World Council of Churches issued a Pastoral letter on the violence in the Middle East.
		Churches of the Middle East consistently ask sister churches around the world to speak out on their behalf to parishes, the public, their governments and to the embassies of governments most directly involved in the Middle East-the United States, Israel, the European Union and Russia.
		The World Council of Churches has always held that justice among the states and peoples of the Middle East must be based on the international rule of law and on rigorous implementation of United Nations Security Council resolutions pertaining to the conflicts.
	www.opednews.com /articles/genera_rev__dr__060721_world_council_of_chu.htm (1552 words)

	Towards a Common Understanding and Vision of the World Council of Churches: A Policy Statement
		As the member churches of the WCC seek together to discern the promises and challenges of a new century and a new millennium, the WCC and the ecumenical movement are passing through a period of uncertainty.
		The World Council of Churches is a fellowship of churches which confess the Lord Jesus Christ as God and Saviour according to the Scriptures and therefore seek to fulfil together their common calling to the glory of the one God, Father, Son and Holy Spirit.
		Because local, national, regional and world councils of churches are all expressions of the one ecumenical movement, their relationships should be characterized by a conciliar spirit of mutuality and cooperation, rather than competition and the demarcation of areas of influence.
	www.wcc-coe.org /wcc/who/cuv-e.html (8284 words)

	Decade to Overcome Violence - www.overcomingviolence.org
		Local churches in Palestine/Israel are looking to the whole fellowship of the World Council of Churches (WCC) to play a stronger role in supporting local churches' struggles for a just peace there.
		On 21 September, churches and communities throughout the world are committing to the International Day of Peace through prayer, meditation and other forms of spiritual observance.
		Launched in 2000 by Women’s World Summit Foundation (WWSF) for the creation of a global culture of prevention and for the implementation of the Convention on the Rights of the Child, as well as the recommendations...
	www.overcomingviolence.org (302 words)

	World Council of Churches Baptizes Heathenism
		The Seventh Assembly of the World Council of Churches (WCC), held February 7-20 in Canberra, Australia, gave further illustration of the Council's hideous apostasy.
		The Director of the WCC's Inter-Faith dialogue is a Sri Lankan, Wesley Ariarajah.
		God that made the world and all things therein, seeing that he is Lord of heaven and earth, dwelleth not in temples made with hands; neither is worshipped with men's hands, as though he needed any thing, seeing he giveth to all life, and breath, and all things...
	www.biblebelievers.net /Apostasy/kjcheath.htm (2051 words)

	World Council of Churches. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		The idea of a world fellowship of Christian churches took concrete form in 1937, when two ecumenical conferences—on life and work and on faith and order—elected a joint committee to formulate plans for a world council.
		The council, which has no legislative power over its member churches, provides an opportunity for its constituents to act together in matters of common concern under their common calling “to accept our Lord Jesus Christ as God and Savior.” Its concerns include international relations, environmental justice, education, and mission.
		The Roman Catholic Church is not a member of the council but sends delegated observers to its assemblies; it has full membership on the council’s Commission of Faith and Order and on its Joint Working Group.
	www.bartleby.com /65/wo/WorldCncl.html (344 words)

	The Truth About The World Council Of Churches
		All quotations given in this article are either from the above-mentioned WCC publication or from one of the official documents presented at the meeting of the WCC Central Committee held in Kingston, Jamaica, January 1-1 1, 1979, which the author of this leaflet attended as a member of the press.
		The WCC, while admitting that the ecumenical movement is broader than its own institution, claims with ample justification that it is "the most nearly comprehensive instrument of the ecumenical movement in the world today".
		The WCC tells us that dialogue is a required form of witness in a pluralistic world, yet they take special pains to assure their partners in dialogue that they "come not as manipulators but as genuine fellow-pilgrims..
	cnview.com /on_line_resources/world_council_of_churches.htm (2915 words)

	Easter Sunday Feature : The World Council of Churches (Encounter) :: Sunday Nights
		The ancient churches of Europe tend to dominate the WCC and the Pentecostal churches tend to be modern post-Christendom churches with different styles of evangelism and so on, and I think a lot of the mutual tensions are of that sort.
		In a dynamic and lively church, like the church in Latin America, there is an ecumenism of the People of God, he said, which declares that if you and I are at the foot of the cross then we belong to the same church, so let’s walk together.
		World Council leaders spoke of the need for churches and the council to develop stronger inter-religious relationships at all levels.
	www.abc.net.au /sundaynights/stories/s1617075.htm (5977 words)

	CBS News \| World Council of Churches Begin Meeting
		The Christian congregations fully outside the WCC fold are likely to be a recurring theme during the 10-day assembly of more than 4,000 clerics, scholars and religious activists.
		The WCC's general secretary, the Rev. Samuel Kobia, plans to appeal for more outreach toward Pentecostals, evangelicals and related movements, which some experts believe may account for more than a third of the world's nearly 2.2 billion Christians by 2025.
		A growing number of churches in the West have split from their dioceses to join traditionalist blocs often led by African and South American bishops, who have threatened to break away from the global communion unless the liberals are marginalized.
	www.cbsnews.com /stories/2006/02/14/ap/world/mainD8FOS2501.shtml (736 words)

	World Council of Churches
		The World Council of Churches (WCC) is a global movement whose goal is Christian unity.
		While most of the founding churches were European and North American, today the majority of member churches are found in Africa, Asia, the Caribbean, Latin America, the Middle East and the Pacific.
		The consultation reflects theologically on structural and institutional forms of cruelty, and the alternatives of churches to pursue reconciliation in the world.
	www.elca.org /ecumenical/conciliarbodies/wcc.html (362 words)

	World Council of Churches Eighth Assembly -- Wrap Up News Release
		The World Council of Churches will set up a commission on the participation of the Orthodox churches, whose membership has recently been troubled by dissatisfaction among some Orthodox over what they regard as difficulties in making their tradition's voice heard within the otherwise Protestant body.
		Appropriately for the Assembly's venue, six of the new churches are African: the United Church of Christ in Zimbabwe, the Harrist Church in Ivory Coast, the Council of African Instituted Churches, which is in South Africa, the Reformed Church of Christ in Nigeria, and the Congo's Anglican Church and Evangelical Lutheran Church.
		The WCC was formally inaugurated in 1948 in Amsterdam, Netherlands.
	www.ncccusa.org /news/news114.html (2868 words)

	world council of churches information (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The National Council of Churches USA is an ecumenical partnership of 36 Christian denominations in the United States...
		The World Council of Churches (or WCC) is the principal international liberal Christian...
		The World Council of Churches is formed as an interdenominational body promoting Christian unity and presence in society.
	www.property-gd.com /articles/57/world-council-of-churches.html (577 words)

	World Council of Churches Geneva (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Open letter to the member churches of the World Council of Churches, regional and national councils of churches and ecumenical partner organisations.
		The WCC is receiving regular eye-witness reports from Palestinian church workers about invasions, occupation and major physical damage or destruction of church-related and internationally supported schools and other facilities.
		The church leaders also urge the Palestinian people to put "an end to every kind of violent response", reiterating that the way to peace is through negotiations.
	www.palestinemonitor.org /comments/world_council_of_churches_geneva.htm (843 words)

	World Council Of Churches
		She told the Minneapolis conference, "The Bible is basically an open book, and I want to add the next chapter." Chung spoke at the 1991 General Assembly of the World Council of Churches and identified the Holy Spirit with a Buddhist goddess.
		The WCC is the world’s largest ecumenical fellowship of more than 300 churches from nearly all Christian traditions, including Protestant and the Orthodox.
		The Roman Catholic Church is not a member of the WCC but works cooperatively with it in several areas, and is a full member of two of the Council's commissions: Faith and Order, and World Mission and Evangelism.
	www.inplainsite.org /html/world_council_of_churches.html (8690 words)

	Assemblies of the World Council of Churches
		Because the church recognizes the Jew as an erring brother destined for Christ, a brother whom it loves and calls, it is not permissible for the church to regard the Jewish question as a racial or national problem, and to let that determine its attitude towards the Jewish people, or towards individual Jews.
		By 1954 the separation between those in the churches who were concerned for the theological significance of the Jewish people and those who saw Jews in solely political terms had already begun, a problem that became an issue at the Evanston Assembly of the World Council of Churches.
		In addition, some of the member churches of the World Council themselves conducted theological studies on the church and Israel (the results from the study conducted by the Ecumenical Council of the Hungarian Churches were particularly significant).
	www.abrock.com /Assemblies.html (6039 words)

	Truth In Love Network - World Council of Churches (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The Stated Clerk of the General Assembly famously compared their efforts to those of the Jerusalem Council, apparently unaware of the facts that the Jerusalem Council was not selected to ensure representation and that the Jerusalem Council actually decided the issue before it.
		For Presbyterians, Methodists, and the other NCC members to claim to support separation of church and state, while participating in and praising the National Council of Churches of Christ (which incidentally abbreviates its name NCC and not NCCC) is repugnant.
		The concept of a World Council of Churches (WCC) was discussed as early as the late 1920’s.
	blog.pcusaelders.org /index.php?cat=26 (1666 words)

	World Council of Churches - WCC Home
		WCC calls on the ecumenical family to pray for Afghanistan hostages
		WCC general secretary Rev. Dr Samuel Kobia has challenged his fellow men to join the efforts of women, especially grandmothers, in dealing with the immune deficiency pandemic.
		In Called to the One Hope, WCC general secretary Rev. Dr Samuel Kobia addresses humanity’s sense of alienation and quest for identity, asking how the churches, the ecumenical movement and the World Council of Churches — divided as they are — may yet be renewed for service.
	www.wcc-coe.org /wcc/english.html (782 words)

	World Council of Churches slams Israel \| Jerusalem Post (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The WCC condemned the killing of innocent civilians by "both sides" in the conflict and called for the Palestinians to "maintain the existing one-party cease-fire toward Israel" and asked Israel to base its security on "the equitable negotiation of final borders" with its neighbors.
		The WCC claimed a double standard was at work in the international community that favored Israel, saying, "The side set to keep its unlawful gains is garnering support from part of the international community.
		In March 2005, the WCC urged its member churches give "serious consideration" to pulling investments out of Israel and endorsed the 2004 decision by the Presbyterian Church of the United States to seek "phased selective divestment" from Israel.
	www.jpost.com /servlet/Satellite?cid=1148287842710&pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull (702 words)

	WCC 9th Assembly - Home
		Walter Altmann, Gennadios of Sassima and Margaretha Hendriks-Ririmasse are, respectively, the new moderator and vice moderators of the WCC central committee.
		The World Council of Churches 9th Assembly came to an official end Thursday with closing prayers.
		Former general secretaries of the WCC gathered for a ceremony commemorating the Assembly at its...
	www.wcc-assembly.info (387 words)

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