News about the WCC US office

In relation to the US presidential election on 2 November 2004, the WCC general secretary Rev. Dr. Samuel Kobia has written to the WCC's US member churches to assure them of the encouragement and support of the churches worldwide as "the choice of the US president is of great concern not only to the people of the USA but also to people across the world".

Solidarity and challenges were brought by a group of "living letters" - Christians coming from different countries of the world - to the annual meeting of the US member churches of the World Council of Churches (WCC), which took place in Atlanta, Georgia, 5-6 October 2004.

The immense responsibility of the US churches in the world today was highlighted by the World Council of Churches (WCC) general secretary Rev. Dr Samuel Kobia during the annual meeting of the US member churches of the WCC taking place in Atlanta, Georgia, 5-6 October 2004.

Ten individuals and organizations from Atlanta and surrounding areas will be recognized for their peace and justice-making efforts at the annual meeting of the United States Conference for the World Council of Churches (WCC), beginning today in Atlanta, Georgia.

To "expose and inspire" the US churches' witness to "the power and promise of peace" is the aim of events being organized in October in Atlanta, Georgia, by the US Conference for the World Council of Churches (WCC).

Celebrating peace when the world is at war, when both Iraqis and Americans still are dying in Iraq, when civil war and genocide threatens thousands in the Sudan and again in the Great Lakes region of central Africa, may seem like an exercise in futility. But the truth is that it is when the world is at war that we need voices and prayers for peace even more.

Churches representing over 550 million Christians world-wide have been invited for the first time to mark 21 September as an International Day of Prayer for Peace.

The HIV/AIDS pandemic, peace processes and reconstruction efforts in Africa, the role of the United States as the only global superpower, as well as ecumenical challenges and the 2004 focus on the US of the World Council of Churches? (WCC) Decade to Overcome Violence were among the issues addressed by the WCC general secretary Rev. Dr Samuel Kobia at a gathering of 16 leaders of the historic African-American churches

"The vitality and creativity of peace and justice work in the United States is a resource for the global ecumenical family," the general secretary of the World Council of Churches (WCC) Rev. Dr Samuel Kobia told some 600 representatives of US churches and faith-based organizations