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St. Mary Armenian Church in Washington, D.C. –

A "Dove of Peace" has been slain. A man of integrity, moral courage and personal honor, journalist

Hrant Dink, an innocent victim to extremist hatred, was assassinated in broad daylight last Friday outside of the offices of the weekly newspaper Agos which he founded and edited in Istanbul.

An inter-religious seminar on the "spiritual dimensions underlying the crisis in violence" will be part of a 13-15 November public event in Rochester, New York (USA) focusing on violence and the how faith communities can respond to it.

The 9th Assembly of the World Council of Churches, meeting at Porto Alegre, Brazil in February 2006, asked me to respond to your statement to the assembly, offered as a prayer of lamentation and confession. In responding, we too must join sincerely in your expression of grief at ill-conceived actions and tragic events of recent years, and in your confession "that we have failed to raise a prophetic voice loud enough and persistent enough" to...

"One of the 20th century’s great Christian pastors and activists for peace and justice" is how World Council of Churches (WCC) general secretary Rev. Dr Samuel Kobia described US clergyman Rev. Dr William Sloane Coffin, Jr., who died on 12 April 2006.

"Tom Fox was in Iraq as a religious peacemaker so that those who use violence to pursue their own plans for that much-troubled nation might see that this is no way toward peace," Peter Weiderud, director of the World Council of Churches' Commission of the Churches for International Affairs (WCC/CCIA), said in Geneva today.

"..."we acknowledge as well that we are citizens of a nation that has done much in these years to endanger the human family and to abuse the creation...," says a letter read out to the WCC's 9th Assembly during an 18 February plenary session on "Youth overcoming violence".

"... an extraordinary woman who lived an extraordinary life during an extraordinary time" is how World Council of Churches (WCC) general secretary, Rev. Dr Samuel Kobia, describes Coretta Scott King in a tribute sent today to member churches in the USA. The widow of the US civil rights leader Martin Luther King, died yesterday, 31 January, at the age of 78.

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Information service"... an extraordinary woman who lived an extraordinary life during an extraordinary time" is how World Council of Churches (WCC) general secretary, Rev. Dr Samuel Kobia, describes Coretta Scott King in a tribute sent today to member churches in the USA. The widow of the US civil rights leader Martin Luther King, died...

A "true ecumenical veteran" who in 1980 became assistant to the WCC general secretary, and later undertook the responsibility of preparing the Seventh Assembly of the WCC in Canberra, Australia in 1991, William A. Perkins died on 8 December 2005 in his home in the USA.

WCC Program Assistant for the Decade to Overcome Violence, Kent Yoder, facilitated a meeting of Geneva-based WCC interns from North America with US Office staff during the recent all-staff Week of Meetings.