WCC Central Committee Renews Commitment to Ecumenism

The World Council of Churches has concluded its central committee meeting in Geneva, Switzerland, with new plans to adopt a streamlined programme strategy that will provide a new framework for the next seven years of ecumenical action and advocacy.

“The decisions made this week equip the WCC for a dynamic, integrated and deliberate engagement with some of the major challenges facing our churches and the world at the start of the 21st century,” WCC general secretary Rev. Dr Samuel Kobia noted after the conclusion of the council's central committee meeting, held in Geneva, 30 August to 6 September 2006.

The layout of the new framework is revealed below: